The Metal Smile

"Do not fold, bend or mutilate" marked the beginning of our cybernetic society. How will it end?

The varied answers to that question have proved to be fertile ground for some of the greatest science fiction imaginations. But perhaps we shouldn't look too closely into the future of cybernetics. It may be that the survival capacity of the thinking machine is greater than that of its maker...

Contents:

The New Father Christmas • (1958) • shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss

Answer • (1954) • shortstory by Fredric Brown

Fool's Mate • (1953) • shortstory by Robert Sheckley

Quixote and the Windmill • (1950) • shortstory by Poul Anderson

Two-Handed Engine • (1955) • novelette by C. L. Moore and Henry Kuttner

First to Serve • (1954) • shortstory by Algis Budrys

I Made You • (1954) • shortstory by Walter M. Miller, Jr.

Monkey Wrench • (1951) • shortstory by Gordon R. Dickson

Impostor • (1953) • shortstory by Philip K. Dick

Someday • (1956) • shortstory by Isaac Asimov

Short in the Chest • (1954) • shortstory by Margaret St. Clair [as by Idris Seabright ]

Nightmare Number Three • (1935) • poem by Stephen Vincent Benét