| Robots Have No Tails | |
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Dust-jacket from the first edition |
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| Author(s) | Lewis Padgett |
| Cover artist | Ric Binkley |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Science fiction short stories |
| Publisher | Gnome Press |
| Publication date | 1952 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 224 pp |
| ISBN | NA |
Robots Have No Tails is a 1952 collection of science fiction short stories by Lewis Padgett (pseudonym of Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore). It was first published by Gnome Press in 1952[1] in an edition of 4,000 copies. The stories all originally appeared in the magazine Astounding.
It has been reprinted three times: In 1973 by Lancer books with an introduction by C.L. Moore, in 1983 in the UK by Hamlyn Books as The Proud Robot[2] with an introduction by Peter Pinto and lastly in 2009 in the US by Paizo Publishing LLC's Planet Stories Line of books, with an additional introduction (to the one of Catherine Moore) by F. Paul Wilson. Both later editions credit Henry Kuttner as being the author, as does the introduction by C.L. Moore in the 1973 and 2009 editions.
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Groff Conklin wrote in his Galaxy review column that Robots was not good science fiction, but "zany imaginings of a rather anti-scientific sort."[3] Boucher and McComas praised the collection as "a great joy." [4]. P. Schuyler Miller praised the stories as "pure entertainment, lavishly applied."[5]