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SOURCE LIST
With Folded Hands
Astounding Science Fiction
Volume XXXIX, Number 5
July 1947
. . . And Searching Mind
Astounding Science Fiction
Volume LVI, Numbers 1-3
March-May 1948
The Humanoid Touch
Phantasia Press
First Edition
October 1980
The Humanoid Universe
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact
Volume C, Number 6
June 1980
Introduction
ME AND MY HUMANOIDS
The humanoids are small man-shaped robots, all powered and operated from a central computer on the planet Wing IV. Invented in the aftermath of a terrible nuclear war to protect man from his own runaway technology, they are ruled by their own Prime Directive, “To serve and obey, and guard men from harm.”
The problem is that their built-in benevolence goes too far. Alert to the potential harm in nearly every human activity, they don’t let people drive cars, ride bicycles, smoke or drink, engage in unsupervised sex. Doing everything for everybody, they forbid all free action. Their world becomes a luxurious but nightmarish prison of total frustration.
They appear in two stories, a novelette, “With Folded Hands,” and a novel, The Humanoids, originally serialized in John Campbell’s Astounding Science Fiction as “… And Searching Mind.” The first is probably the better story. I agree with Jim Gunn that the novelette is the best length for most science fiction, with space enough for the full development of an idea but with no demand for the writer to offer final solutions to the problems he raises. “With Folded Hands” says what I wanted to say about the hazards of uncontrolled technology.
It’s the novel that has been misunderstood— or at least interpreted in contradictory ways that I never expected. The reason, I believe, is that it has a second theme, one less obvious than the technological threat but perhaps more significant. The humanoids, seen as symbolic, become a metaphor for a universal human conflict far older than the first machine.
Book Details
Format: epub,mobi
Size: 6.40 MB
SOURCE LIST
With Folded Hands
Astounding Science Fiction
Volume XXXIX, Number 5
July 1947
. . . And Searching Mind
Astounding Science Fiction
Volume LVI, Numbers 1-3
March-May 1948
The Humanoid Touch
Phantasia Press
First Edition
October 1980
The Humanoid Universe
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact
Volume C, Number 6
June 1980
Introduction
ME AND MY HUMANOIDS
The humanoids are small man-shaped robots, all powered and operated from a central computer on the planet Wing IV. Invented in the aftermath of a terrible nuclear war to protect man from his own runaway technology, they are ruled by their own Prime Directive, “To serve and obey, and guard men from harm.”
The problem is that their built-in benevolence goes too far. Alert to the potential harm in nearly every human activity, they don’t let people drive cars, ride bicycles, smoke or drink, engage in unsupervised sex. Doing everything for everybody, they forbid all free action. Their world becomes a luxurious but nightmarish prison of total frustration.
They appear in two stories, a novelette, “With Folded Hands,” and a novel, The Humanoids, originally serialized in John Campbell’s Astounding Science Fiction as “… And Searching Mind.” The first is probably the better story. I agree with Jim Gunn that the novelette is the best length for most science fiction, with space enough for the full development of an idea but with no demand for the writer to offer final solutions to the problems he raises. “With Folded Hands” says what I wanted to say about the hazards of uncontrolled technology.
It’s the novel that has been misunderstood— or at least interpreted in contradictory ways that I never expected. The reason, I believe, is that it has a second theme, one less obvious than the technological threat but perhaps more significant. The humanoids, seen as symbolic, become a metaphor for a universal human conflict far older than the first machine.