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"The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer. Day after month after year after story after book."
- Harlan Ellison
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| Robotic Conductor | ||
| A robot charged with conductor's duties aboard a bus or other public transportation. |
| The robot conductor was coming toward him, whirring angrily.
"Sir -" the conductor began. The bus was slowing down. "Sir, it is not allowed - " He reached into this pocket and brought out the bus token. He put it calmly into the conductor's coin slot... The conductor turned away, its whirrs subsiding. |
| Technovelgy from Paycheck,
by Philip K. Dick. Published by Imagination in 1953 Additional resources -
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