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"I'm strictly an ivory-tower person. I can explain things but I can't do things."
- Isaac Asimov
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| Manshonyagger | ||
| An autonomous fighting robot. |
| "This time it was a bear. The bear stood at the edge of the darkness and looked into the moonlit valley with the brook running through it. He could hear no sound of Morons, no whistle of manshonyagger, as he and his kind called the hunting machines." ....
"Said the bear in perfect German, "You are at the edge of the Unselfing Zone. You have been rescued by a Moron. You have stopped a Menschenjäger very mysteriously. For the first time in my own life I can see into a German mind and see that the word manshonyagger should really be Menschenjäger, a hunter of men. Allow me to introduce myself. I am the Middle-Sized Bear who lives in these woods." |
| From Mark Elf,
by Cordwainer Smith. Published by Saturn in 1957 Additional resources -
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Here's a description of the robot:
From the forward edge of the top shell a hidden arm leapt forth, seeming to strike at her, deadlier than a cobra, quicker than a jaguar, more silent than a bat flitting across the face of the moon.
Thanks to Frank Beitel for contributing the quote and citation for this item.
Carlotta stared at the machine. It had legs like a grasshopper, a body like a ten-foot turtle, and three heads which moved restlessly in the moonlight.
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