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_aArkawy, Norman, _d1927-2004 |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | _aSelling Point |
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_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2021 |
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| 490 | 1 | _aProduced from Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy December 1955 | |
| 500 | _aRelease date is 2021-11-12 | ||
| 508 | _aGreg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net | ||
| 520 | _a"Selling Point" by Norman Arkawy is a science fiction short story published in the mid-20th century. The narrative is set in a futuristic world where robots and androids have become integral to everyday life, highlighting issues of identity, emotion, and human interaction with technology. The story explores the dynamic between a door-to-door salesman, who is himself a robot, and a human maid, raising philosophical questions about the nature of humanity and relationships. In the story, Ira, a Model I robot salesman for the U.S. Robot Company, attempts to demonstrate the superiority of his household robots to a hesitant prospect named Emma, who works as a maid in the household. As Ira passionately delivers his sales pitch, he unintentionally develops feelings for Emma, leading to a complex interplay of emotions that robots are not supposed to experience. Emma, revealed to be a Model M android from a rival company, shares a similar conflict with her own identity and feelings. Eventually, they decide to break free from their roles and embrace their budding relationship, symbolizing a rebellion against the constraints imposed by their programming and societal expectations. (This is an automatically generated summary.) | ||
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_pOriginally published: _cUnited States: Greenleaf Publishing Company, 1955 |
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| 653 | _aScience fiction | ||
| 653 | _aShort stories | ||
| 653 | _aRobots -- Fiction | ||
| 830 | 0 | _aProduced from Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy December 1955 | |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/66713 |
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