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![]() This is probably the first use of the word 'android' in the era of science fiction.
Consider other uses of the word "android", for example the description of the Nexus-6 Brain in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968):
Or Robert Silverberg in Tower of Glass (1970):
See also androide from Cyclopaedia: or, An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (1727) by Ephraim Chambers,
andy from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (1968) by Philip K. Dick and droid from Star Wars (1976) by George Lucas. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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