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... to promote good Christian living in the middle of the twenty-first century. If the French could possibly have been clever enough to create a time machine allowing Alexis de Tocqueville to assume the fourth seat at Jake's 'Chinese table', the historian might have wondered at the tendency of such seemingly-wholesome people to embrace moral totalitarianism as the litmus-t...

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..."Ready Fire Aim." Resources dwindle as aqua farming Region 5 Spaceport Terminus pushes maximum population density, and the balance between man and machine collapses in "Bloom." The fractured politics of the fractured 1920s Aether Age leaves a sheriff struggling to find the truth in "The More Things Change." Would Ace Rango rather be locked in battle with snarling ...

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...count. Do you play the piano? HELENA Yes. DOMIN That's good. But a working machine must not play the piano, must not feel happy, must not do a whole ... ...u spoke of lies. HELENA You wouldn't have her killed? DOMIN You can't kill machines. R. U. R. I-13 HELENA Don't be afraid, Sulla, I won't let you go.... ...work, Miss Glory! One Robot can replace two and a half workmen. The human machine, Miss Glory, was terribly imperfect. It had to be removed sooner o... ...!–– and ensure good treatment for them. FABRY Not a bad object, either. A machine has to be treated properly. Upon my soul, I approve of that. I don... ... damage to himself because it doesn't hurt him. He puts his hand into the machine, breaks his finger, smashes his head, its all the same to him. We ... ... without price. There will be no poverty. All work will be done by living machines. Everybody will be free from worry and liberated from the degrada... ... perfect himself. He shall serve neither matter nor man. He will not be a machine and a device for production. He will be Lord of creation. BUSMAN A... ...ill all mankind. Spare no men. Spare no women. Save factories, railways, machinery, mines, and raw materials. Destroy the rest. Then return to work... ...crust of bread. I wanted not a single soul to be broken by other people's machinery. I wanted nothing, nothing, nothing to be left of this appalling...

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...rototypes for a new generation of Man. The body skeleton, made of modern metal clusters, that would never decay, was almost indestructible. His inner machine workings were covered in a flexible carbon hybrid. The carbon, formed with the mineral pansaleite under extreme pressure gave the appearance and feel of human skin. The new kind of Man had to be in Man's own image and...

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...r robots of the 5th company had taken up position and the war drones moved to their positions. Most, actually almost all, of the fighting was done by machines. Humans were too frail and too slow to be effective in most situations. Humans came into action when the machines had to be maintained and repaired. There were robots for those purposes, too, but often they turned ou...

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...ful. Someone with respect. Both men stared from the sidewalk as the uniformed driver in the peaked hat and driving gloves casually hauled the huge machine into the outside lane, the big automobile whining up to speed as it left the rest of the halting traffic to fight amongst themselves. With one more deep growl of acceleration the mesmerising machine swung deep towards...

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...r robots of the 5th company had taken up position and the war drones moved to their positions. Most, actually almost all, of the fighting was done by machines. Humans were too frail and too slow to be effective in most situations. Humans came into action when the machines had to be maintained and repaired. There were robots for those purposes, too, but often they turned ou...

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...In the late 21st century on Earth, new technology allowed man to create machines merged with the body of their fallen comrades of war. These ?manchines? fought and won the war for the West. Discarded, the manchines learned of their worth and fought back for their own freedom, destroying half of t...

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...enture to the stars. He heard stories during the age of technology of how man sent machines to record data as they learned about other planets in th... ...d through the papers. “And to think at one time humanity couldn’t function without machines.” “How wrong they were,” he said. “I don’t need a fl... ...ead focused on the pursuit of pleasuring himself and feeding his every want. These machines joined with man to create superior beings, yet it backfi... ...with man to create superior beings, yet it backfired—destroying most of humankind. Machines were quickly destroyed as well thus sending mankind back... ...o the wars that started the destruction of your people right before the age of the machines.” He shifted his weight at the mention of the machin... ...he wars of men. Technology advanced to the point of the creation where Man created machines to think for themselves and to work twice as hard as hum... ...wice as hard as humans. Soon, they lead humans in war against themselves. But, the machines knew from man’s history that there would be a backlash a... ... that there would be a backlash against them. Humans fear what is different. The machines managed to reanimate human corpses and meld with them to ...

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...tretched upon the bed. My God, she thought, it’s me, and what’s with all the machines and tubes? 16 The Emerald Dagger She floated closer. Life suppo... ...d up the chart hanging at the foot of the bed, checked the read- ings on the machines and hung the chart back in its place. Look at her, Kelsey though... ...the doctor said. “Would she want to go on this way? No brain activity, and a machine breathing for her?” “I know you’re right,” Duncan cried. “But to ...