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A Friend to Man [MultiFormat]
eBook by Harlan Ellison
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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description: His master was an artist, but now the robot known only as Most Unworthy One waits helplessly in a pile of rubble for him to return... but his master was engaged in what might be the final war against a terrifying robotic enemy.
eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: 1959
Fictionwise Release Date: February 2001
Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [45 KB], eReader (PDB) [22 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [8 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [9 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [33 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [80 KB], hiebook (KML) [50 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [35 KB], iSilo (PDB) [7 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [9 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [37 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [17 KB]
Words: 2385
Reading time: 6-9 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
Adobe Acrobat (PDF) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud DISABLED
All Other formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED
 
Twin globes, polished surfaces buried in golden sand, still staring at a face-down universe. Molybdenum claws, powered from a groin of metal, futilely stretched in the golden sand. Powerpak dead ... counterweights thrown from sockets ... rust making the first microscopic smearings on gloss-bright indestructable hide. Most Unworthy One lay on his face mid the shock-blasted wreckage of His home. Most Unworthy One's right arm was extended, as he had fallen, reaching for the last can of lubricant. Blessed oil, that could pick him up, start his synapses sparking, trigger his movements, send him to His aid, wherever He might be, whatever danger surrounded Him. Instead, he lay face down, whirling motes of dust rising shape-into-shape up flues of moist green sunlight. A sky diseased, leprous and shimmering in a world-socket turned to ash. While Most Unworthy One stretched short of life. Life gauged in millimetres, ball bearings and closed circuits. Life imparted on a production line in a now-fled time in a now-dead place he had known very well as Detroit. Where cars had been made, and vacuum sweepers, and generators, and robots.
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