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'''Perrin, Noel. "Robots: Three Fantasies and One Big Cold Reality."''' ''Aliens: The Anthropology of Science Fiction''. George E. Slusser and Eric S. Rabkin, eds. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1987. [[Category: Literary Criticism]]  
 
'''Perrin, Noel. "Robots: Three Fantasies and One Big Cold Reality."''' ''Aliens: The Anthropology of Science Fiction''. George E. Slusser and Eric S. Rabkin, eds. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1987. [[Category: Literary Criticism]]  
  
The fantasies are Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's ''[[Noon: 22nd Century]]'', I. Asimov's ''I, Robot'', and A. C. Clarke's ''The City and the Stars'' (with reference to E. M. Forster's "The Machine Stops"). The reality is real-world robots coming on-line. See for work and human purpose in worlds with many robots.
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The fantasies are Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's ''[[Noon: 22nd Century]]'', I. Asimov's ''[[I, Robot]]'', and A. C. Clarke's ''[[The City and the Stars]]'' (with reference to E. M. Forster's "[[The Machine Stops]]"). The reality is real-world robots coming on-line. See for work and human purpose in worlds with many robots.

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Perrin, Noel. "Robots: Three Fantasies and One Big Cold Reality." Aliens: The Anthropology of Science Fiction. George E. Slusser and Eric S. Rabkin, eds. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1987.

The fantasies are Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's Noon: 22nd Century, I. Asimov's I, Robot, and A. C. Clarke's The City and the Stars (with reference to E. M. Forster's "The Machine Stops"). The reality is real-world robots coming on-line. See for work and human purpose in worlds with many robots.