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| Robocide | ||
| Deliberate destruction of robots. |
| In front of the ornamental fireplace was a heavy brass-handled ornamental poker. Snatching it up, he turned and brought it down with a crash on the robobutler which had hastily followed at his heels.
"Awk!" went the robobutler and collapsed into junk. "Stop it, Jim!" cried the robobartender, whizzing forward. "You don't know what you're do-" Crash! "Help!" yelled the robovision. "Calling roborepairservice! Calling roborepairservice! Malicious robocide taking place at 40 Wilderleaf Drive." Smash! JIM raged through his house, wrecking and destroying. The roboannunciator required several swings, since most of its circuits were protected by inner walls. The roborefrigerator resisted for a good eighteen seconds through sheer bulk and the robosweeper hid behind the couch, but was quickly hunted down. The robohomeconditioner was too massive to be destroyed properly, but the robothermostat perished in a single shower of glass and small parts. Finally, in a home at last fallen silent, Jim finished up by knocking out a picture window and crawling through it to the lawn. |
| Technovelgy from Robots Are Nice?,
by Gordon R. Dickson. Published by Galaxy in 1957 Additional resources -
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Dickson goes on a tear in this story, naming every possible robo-device you could think of: robothermostat, robobartender, robopollsters, roborecordplayer, roboannunciator, robobutler, roborefrigerator, robopsychologists, roboclerk...
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