num_pages: 210
description: HUMANOIDS: Self-directed robots invented to serve &amp; guard mankind"With Folded Hands" is a 1947 sf novelette by Jack Williamson (1908–2006). His influence for this story was in the aftermath of WWII &amp; the atomic bombings of Japan &amp; his concern that "some of the technological creations we had developed with the best intentions might have disastrous consequences in the long run." The story was followed by a novel-length rewrite, with a different setting &amp; inventor. This, serialized as ...&amp; Searching Mind, was finally published as The Humanoids (1948). He followed with a sequel, The Humanoid Touch, published in 1980.
language: English
title: The Humanoid Touch
titlecomplete: The Humanoid Touch
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction
ratings_count: 215
series: Humanoids
publisher: Bantam