My Robot
Unknown
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Description
My Robot, a tale by O H Leslie, ran in the February 1957 issue of the magazine Fantastic. The teller looks back on Faw-Faw, the metal tutor of his childhood. He recalls sitting in the robot's wide lap, cheek against its cool chest, pressing the back buttons that brought out its story-telling voice. His father, a brilliant man, built the machine through forty-four trials over twelve years.
The tale turns on a child's wild act: the boy beat the robot's brain case with a hammer, and his father punished him hard for it. His mother cried that he was only seven. Now grown, the teller is torn between love for the machine and shame at his own rage. The story gives a sharp, sad view of what a child may feel toward a made thing that raised him.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Unknown |
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| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 9 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |