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Jack Williamson (John Stewart Williamson). The Humanoids. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1949....
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Jack Williamson (John Stewart Williamson). The Humanoids. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1949. First edition. Octavo, boards. Touch of rubbing to boards along bottom edges, some age-darkening to edges of text block, a very good copy in very good dust jacket with light wear at head and tail of spine panel and corners with internal tape reinforcements to same with masking tape with some show through on outer surface.More Information:
Expanded from his science fiction horror story, "With Folded Hands," in which man, unfit to be the custodian of his technology, is placed in protective custody by his own mechanical creations who follow their prime directive: "To Serve and Obey, And Guard Men From Harm." Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1257. Berger, Science Fiction and the New Dark Age, pp. 34-6. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 237. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 981-85. In 333.
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