Segregationist (short story)
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"Segregationist" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov, written in April 1967 and first published in December 1967 in Abbottempo, a magazine produced by Abbott Laboratories. It was later reprinted in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and included in several collections, including Nightfall and Other Stories and The Complete Robot.
Quick Facts
- Author
- Isaac Asimov
- Written
- April 1967
- First publication
- December 1967 in Abbottempo
- Publisher of first publication
- Abbott Laboratories
- Reprinted in
- The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (October 1968)
- Collections included in
- Nightfall and Other Stories (1969)
- The Complete Robot (1982)
- Robot Visions (1990)
Facts from the source article.
Plot summary
In a future where robotic prosthetics for humans and organic body-parts for robots (called Metallos) are common, Metallos have equal status with humans. A man granted long life by a Board of Mortality meets a surgeon for heart replacement surgery. The surgeon offers a metallic or fibrous cyber-heart; the man refuses the fibrous one, calling it weak.
Later, the surgeon tells a medical engineer he prefers humans and robots stay as they are. The engineer calls this talk "segregationist"; the surgeon replies he does not care. The surgeon is revealed to be a robot.
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- Wikipedia: Segregationist (short story) (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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