The wealthiest-considered particularly blessed-even had two or three automatic servants beyond the public contribution, which they destroyed in private. These traditionally consisted of household utensils, electric heaters, air conditioners and the family servant.
In the evening of the Day they proudly made their private heaps on the neat green lawns of their homes. For days prior to it joyous throngs of workers helped assemble old vehicles, machine tools and computers in the public squares, crowning each pile with used, disconnected robots. The Sacrifice took place only once a decade, on High Holy Day at dawn of the spring equinox. His own, though, had come at a more appropriate time, just a few weeks before the Great Ritual Sacrifice. Later, discussing it with other members of the Savers' Conspiracy, he found they had experienced the same slow, almost casual awakening. NATURALLY THEY HAD TO DESTROY HIM!Įndell Hart had drifted, rather than plunged, into the underground movement. THE JUNKMAKERS BY ALBERT TEICHNERĮRIC WAS THE BEST ROBOT THEY'D EVER HAD-PERFECTLY TRAINED, EVER THOUGHTFUL, A JOY TO OWN. copyright on this publication was renewed. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. This etext was produced from If: Worlds of Science Fiction July 1961. Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Robert Cicconetti, and the *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE JUNKMAKERS *** With this eBook or online at Title: The Junkmakers Re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withĪlmost no restrictions whatsoever. The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Junkmakers, by Albert R.
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