Robots Have No Tails

Robots Have No Tails

Dust-jacket from the first edition
Author Lewis Padgett
Cover artist Ric Binkley
Country United States
Language English
Genre Science fiction short stories
Publisher Gnome Press
Publication date
1952
Media type Print (Hardback)
Pages 224 pp

Robots Have No Tails is a 1952 collection of science fiction short stories by Lewis Padgett (pseudonym of Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore). It was first published by Gnome Press in 1952[1] in an edition of 4,000 copies. The stories all originally appeared in the magazine Astounding.

It has been reprinted three times: In 1973 by Lancer books with an introduction by C.L. Moore, in 1983 in the UK by Hamlyn Books as The Proud Robot[2] 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

Reception

Groff Conklin wrote in his Galaxy review column that Robots was not good science fiction, but "zany imaginings of a rather anti-scientific sort."[3] Boucher and McComas praised the collection as "a great joy.".[4] P. Schuyler Miller praised the stories as "pure entertainment, lavishly applied."[5]

References

Notes
  1. Reginald 1992, p. 555.
  2. Reginald 1992, p. 556.
  3. "Galaxy's 5 Star Shelf", Galaxy Science Fiction, October 1952, p.124
  4. "Recommended Reading," F&SF, October 1952, p.99
  5. "The Reference Library", Astounding Science Fiction, December 1952, pp.101-02
Bibliography
  • Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. p. 299. 
  • Contento, William G. "Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections". Retrieved 2008-02-25. 
  • Reginald, Robert; Mary A. Burgess; Daryl F. Mallett (1992). Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, 1975-1991: A Bibliography of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Fiction Books and Nonfiction Monographs. Detroit, MI: Gale Research Inc. p. 1512. 
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