The Whimsical Robot (Shinichi Hoshi Short-Short Collection Volume 2)
1972
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Wealthy Mr. N purchases “the best robot a human can own.” It cooks, cleans, and tells stories. Two days later, it stops working. Is it broken already? Written for school-age children, the stories charm and challenge readers of all ages. The collection is as much a moral argument as it is a literary joyride: fables for the high-tech era.
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Shinichi Hoshi
Author · 6 books
Shinichi Hoshi (Japanese: 星新一) is recognized as one of Japan's most influential science fiction writers of all time, He published more than 1,000 of his signature "short-short" stories. Some call his crisp, no-frills prose the "Haiku of Science Fiction."
