8.6 /10 1 Votes
4.7/5 Paizo Language English Media type Print (Hardback) Originally published 1952 Country United States of America | 4/5 Goodreads Cover artist Ric Binkley Publication date 1952 Pages 224 pp Publisher Gnome Press | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Genres Short story, Science Fiction Similar Henry Kuttner books, Science Fiction books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 in an edition of 4,000 copies. The stories all originally appeared in the magazine Astounding.
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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 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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Reception
Groff Conklin wrote in his Galaxy review column that Robots was not good science fiction, but "zany imaginings of a rather anti-scientific sort." Boucher and McComas praised the collection as "a great joy.". P. Schuyler Miller praised the stories as "pure entertainment, lavishly applied."