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| Robot Guard | ||
| Very early reference to a guard robot. |
| Sung-wu slid into a lift and was raised, amid great groans and whirrings and false stops, to the top level of the Central Chamber building. He hurried down a corridor dimly lit by occasional yellow bulbs. A moment later he approached the doors of the scanning offices and flashed his identification at the robot guard. "Is Bard Fei-p'ang within?" he inquired.
"Verily," the robot answered, stepping aside. |
| Technovelgy from The Turning Wheel,
by Philip K. Dick. Published by Science Fiction Stories in 1954 Additional resources -
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Compare to the guard robot that Dick used a year later in The Hood Maker.
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