I was reading a discussion about AI and a movie about an AI caretaker and this story was referenced. I found it pretty good.
http://www.sfu.ca/~ogden/LIBS/LIBS%207005/WilliamsonJackWithFoldedHandsR.pdf
I happen to be reading Bright New Universe (1967) by Jack Williamson, and this bit of self-reference shows up in dialogue early in the novel.
This is obviously a reference to Williamson's own novel The Humanoids.
Ever see something like this elsewhere?
Arthur C Clarke gave us such classic Childhoods End , The City and the Star, The Sand off Mars , End Rendezvous with Rama and sequels , The Sentinel ( which become the basis of 2001 film and book ) did Several sequels to it and so many other wonderful books and stories and, he came...
I did a search on this author and didn't find any threads devoted to this guy so I thought I'd start one as he seems like he has been a major contributor to the fields of SF&F.
The only book I've read of his is "Darker than you think" and I liked that a lot. An interesting take on lycantrhopy...
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