Mechanical Mice

'''Hugi, Maurice A. (pseud. of Eric Frank Russell). "Mechanical Mice."' Astounding'' Jan. 1941. Rpt. Famous Science Fiction Stories: Adventures in Time and Space. Raymond J. Healy and J. Francis McComas, eds. New York: Modern Library-Random, 1946, 1957.

The future history glimpsed by a central character includes a machine-mediated technocracy (327 in Healy and McComas). Brings together motifs of bee hive, mouse burrow, and the Great Mother—in this case the "Robot Mother" (304, 340-1).