Second Variety

Dick, Philip K. "Second Variety." Space Science Fiction May 1953. Coll. The Best of Philip K. Dick and Robots, Androids, and Mechanical Oddities, q.v. under Anthologies and Collections. See Contento, Index, for other locations.

The world of the story is a future Earth that has become a desolate, mechanized, and computerized battlefield. The ultimate threat to humankind is very humanoid and humanlike robots.