Comment on June 21st, 2007.
I just went to Amazon.com and it looks like Williamson's novel THE HUMANOIDS is OP. (that is the reference, right?) I read it ages ago, and have forgotten a lot of the details, but do remember vividly how powerfully affected I was by it.
Comment on June 21st, 2007.
The Humanoids, yes; though what I know best is the novella that preceded it, "With Folded Hands".
"To serve and protect, and keep men from harm."
Comment on June 23rd, 2007.
"With Folded Hands" is one of the earliest science fiction stories I read, because it's in the second volume of The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, and that was probably the first book of adult science fiction I read after The Hugo Winners.
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