''Robots Have No Tails'' is a
1952
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collection of
science fiction
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short stories by
Lewis Padgett (pseudonym of American writers
Henry Kuttner
Henry Kuttner (April 7, 1915 – February 3, 1958) was an American author of science fiction, fantasy and horror.
Early life
Henry Kuttner was born in Los Angeles, California in 1915. Kuttner (1829–1903) and Amelia Bush (c. 1834–1911), the ...
and
C. L. Moore). It was first published by
Gnome Press
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in 1952 in an edition of 4,000 copies. The stories all originally appeared in the magazine ''
Astounding Stories
''Analog Science Fiction and Fact'' is an American science fiction magazine published under various titles since 1930. Originally titled ''Astounding Stories of Super-Science'', the first issue was dated January 1930, published by William C ...
''.
It has been reprinted in 1973 by Lancer books with an introduction by C.L. Moore; in 1983 in the UK by Hamlyn Books as ''The Proud Robot'' with an introduction by Peter Pinto; and lastly in 2009 in the US by Paizo Publishing LLC's Planet Stories line of books, with an additional introduction (to the one of Catherine Moore) by F. Paul Wilson. Both later editions credit Henry Kuttner as being the author, as does the introduction by C.L. Moore in the 1973 and 2009 editions.
Contents
* "The Proud Robot"
* "Gallegher Plus"
* "The World Is Mine"
* "Ex Machina"
* "Time Locker"
Reception
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wrote in his
''Galaxy'' review column that ''Robots Have No Tails'' was not good science fiction, but "zany imaginings of a rather anti-scientific sort."
Boucher and
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praised the collection as "a great joy.".
P. Schuyler Miller praised the stories as "pure entertainment, lavishly applied."
["The Reference Library", '']Astounding Science Fiction
''Analog Science Fiction and Fact'' is an American science fiction magazine published under various titles since 1930. Originally titled ''Astounding Stories of Super-Science'', the first issue was dated January 1930, published by William C ...
'', December 1952, pp.101-02
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1952 short story collections
Science fiction short story collections
Works originally published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact
Works published under a pseudonym
Gnome Press books