It Was the Day of the Robot

Frank Belknap Long

earliest edition we have, 2007 Wildside Press, 2007 paperback 128 pages

The Big Brain denies John Tabor's request to marry, and in the twenty-second century it is the Brain that makes the decisions. Should he try an artificial woman to his own specifications, "for spacemen only"? or is an escape to the Ruins a more desirable alternative? There it is possible to live a primitive kill-or-be-killed life, with modern versions of barbaric traditions. Thus begins this major science fiction nov...

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