Who Can Replace a Man?

'''Aldiss, Brian. "Who Can Replace a Man?"''' (original title: "But Who Can Replace a Man?"). Infinity-Science Fiction June 1958. Coll. Canopy of Time. London: Faber, 1959. Also coll. Who Can Replace a Man. New York: NAL, 1967. Galaxies Like Grains of Sand. New York: Signet-NAL, 1960. Rpt. Souls in Metal (q.v. under Anthologies), and Above the Human Landscape, Willis E. McNelly and Leon E. Storer, eds. Pacific Palisades: Goodyear, 1972.

Machines try, after Man is nearly gone, to survive and continue functioning. Comic and pathetic ending has featured machines submitting to a lone man.