"Dumb Waiter"

Title"Dumb Waiter"
Year for Search1952
AuthorsMiller, Walter M[ichael] Jr.(1923-1996)
Secondary TitleAstounding Science Fiction
Volume / Edition49. 2
Pagination7-40
Date PublishedApril 1952
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

Authoritarian dystopia in which an automated war continues long after the bombs are gone, and a computer-controlled city still enforces laws long out of date.

Additional Publishers

Rpt. in Science-Fiction Thinking Machines: Robots, Androids, Computers. Ed. Groff Conklin (New York: The Vanguard Press, 1954), 323-358; and in Alpha 9 Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: Berkley/Berkley Medallion Publishing, 1978), 2-38, with a note on the author on 1.

Holding Institutions

Merril, PSt

Author Note

(1922-1996)

Full Text

1952 Miller, Walter M[ichael], Jr. (1922-1996). “Dumb Waiter.” Astounding Science Fiction 49. 2 (April 1952): 7-40. Rpt. in Science-Fiction Thinking Machines: Robots, Androids, Computers. Ed. Groff Conklin (New York: The Vanguard Press, 1954), 323-358; and in Alpha 9 Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: Berkley/Berkley Medallion Publishing, 1978), 2-38, with a note on the author on 1. Merril, PSt

Authoritarian dystopia in which an automated war continues long after the bombs are gone, and a computer-controlled city still enforces laws long out of date.