Robert Shea
Robert Joseph Shea was an American novelist and former journalist best known as co-author with Robert Anton Wilson of the science fantasy trilogy Illuminatus! (Wikipedia)
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The Helpful Robots - Robert Shea
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Title: The Helpful Robots
Author: Robert J. Shea
Release Date: March 29, 2009 [EBook #28438]
Language: English
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Robert J. Shea, of Rutgers University, makes an interesting contribution to robotics with this story of Rankin, who prided himself on knowing how to handle robots, but did not realize that the robots of the Clearchan Confederacy were subject to a higher law than implicit obedience to man.
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They had come to pass judgement on him. He had violated their law—wilfully, ignorantly, and very deliberately.
Our people will be arriving to visit us today,
the robot said.
Shut up!
snapped Rod Rankin. He jumped, wiry and quick, out of the chair on his verandah and stared at a cloud of dust in the distance.
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