The Electric Ant
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Jump to navigationJump to searchDick, Philip K. . "The Electric Ant." F&SF Oct. 1969. Coll. Robots, Androids, and Mechanical Oddities, and The Best of Philip K. Dick, q.v. under Anthologies and Collections. See Contento, Index, for rpts.
After an accident, a man awakes to discover that he is not a man but a robot. Story set in a highly computerized world of complex economic manipulations.
Discussed for its racial implications in Isiah Lavender's Race in American Science Fiction.
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