The humanoids
By: Jack Williamson.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 1949
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
Description: THE HUMANOIDS is one of the unquestionable classics of the science fiction genre, and arguably the most important novel ever written about robots. The core idea of ultra sleek robots who arrive on a planet "to serve and protect" the planets inhabitants to the most logical extreme of that directive was brilliant and extraordinarily innovative when the book was published in the late 1940s. As such, absolutely no one even remotely interested in science fiction can afford not to read this great novel. --Robert Moore at Amazon.com.
Notes: A revision and expansion of the author's And folded hands, published in Astounding science fiction.