Re: YASID: Simak Story Of Thinking Appliances




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- hi; in article, <g0ggr6$525$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
jgamble@xxxxxxxxx "John M. Gamble" recalled:

I know pretty much everything but the title. Newspaperman gets
reports of an appliance (sewing machine, I believe) that starts
to roll down the street of its own volition. He starts to write
a humorous "silly season" story on it, briefly leaves, and finds
that his typewriter is editing and finishing the story. Other
such incidents ensue.

At the end of the story he realizes that he was chosen as a test
case to see how humanity would react to "awakened" machines.
Unfortunatly, he's not the sort to react one way or the other, so
they'll have to find a different test case. Which unfortunately
means they'll have to remove him.

I belive the final line has him facing an assembly of machines,
holding a bat, and saying, "Ready, gentlemen?"

- this certainly sounds like "Bathe Your Bearings in Blood"
(which title rather goes against the common perception of
clifford d. simak...) - collected in a mid-late seventies
"Best of" mmp/b-ed by berkley books.

- hth, hand - tdwsc!

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I remember a story something like that, and it would have
been in the 1950's, but my version differs in details. In
my recall, the man lives in a house that seems to have
mice in the walls. By degrees he learns those are not mice,
they are machines and their business is to take over the
world. At the end of it he's ready with a bat to do battle
with the "mice" who are sure to win it; but he's determined
it will be an expensive victory. The implication seems to
be, the human race is tough enough that a takeover will be
just too costly. And I think the story appeared in the old
Astounding then.

Titeotwawki -- mha [rasfw 2008 May 15]






Could it be "The Mechanical Mice" by Maurice G Hugi (alias Eric Frank
Russell)?

--

Mike Stone - Peterborough, England

You can tell what God thinks of money by looking at the people He gives it
to.



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