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"Everything starts as somebody's daydream. And, when you're daydreaming, it is science fiction. It's when you start work out how you put it together, true science fiction becomes real science."
- Larry Niven
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| Robot-Boss | ||
| A mechanical device that tells people what to do. |
As far as I know, the first use of the phrase "robot-boss".
| The men filled bag after bag with
coal, and carried them close to the
mouth of the adit near the mouth
of a deserted shaft. John was one
of the men who were carrying the
heavy bags back through the tunnel,
and he slipped away on one trip while
the robot-boss was busy at the lip
of the new lode instructing and egging the men on to greater speed...
 (Robot-Boss from 'Women's World' by David C. Cooke) "ALL RIGHT,” rasped the robot, “that will be enough—in fact, there are too many bags already! You men” — he pointed to the strongest ones, including John — “take the bags and come with me. Remember,” he continued, “my photon gun will shoot faster than you can run, so don’t try to get away.” |
| Technovelgy from Women's World,
by David C. Cooke. Published by Science Fiction in 1939 Additional resources -
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