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You can be the stainless steel rat5/24/2023 Our hero (a thief who turns policeman) steals money in bags and carries it to other planets hidden in his luggage. Our hero spends a fair time rustling his way through dusty heaps of files.Ĭurrency is paper and coin. And that's pretty much it.įiles are held in filing cabinets on paper. They take anything from 1o seconds to several minutes to search modest databases. You feed them navigation instructions on tape. (some run on coal!)Ĭomputers on the other hand do bugger all. The robots have 'robot brains' and can do complex jobs like being policemen. The Stainless Steel universe has the 'standard' many-times-faster-than-light travel, instant communication (via psychic telephone men this time), and highly intelligent robots.Ī strange distinction is made between robots and computers. The main points of interest for me were how poor a prediction of future technology it was, and how badly sci-fi was written 55 years ago. My copy comes from the late 80s when it was selling very well. First in a successful and long running series. Pulp sci-fi written in 1961 and reprinted dozens of times.
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