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HTML: A robot controls a family's diet with disturbing exactitude in this 1958 novella by the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning authorâ??with a new forward. Celebrated author Robert Silverberg was twenty-two years old when he wrote The Iron Chancellor, his second contribution to the pioneering science fiction magazine Galexy. It tells the story of a man who purchases a robot to help himself and his family lose weight. The scheme goes awry as the robot assumes totalitarian control over the household. This early work demonstrates Silverberg's prodigious talent as well as his influences, such as Henry Kuttner's Gallegher stories and Robert Sheckley's AAA Ace Series. Fans of Silverberg's renowned novels, such as Sailing to Byzantium and Gilgamesh in the Outback, will enjoy this early work by the SFWA Grand MastNo library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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