Terminus

'''Lem, Stanislaw. "Terminus."' In Tales of Pirx the Pilot (Opowiesci o pilocie Pirxie).'' Louis Iribarne, trans. New York: Harcourt, 1979. "A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book."

A kind of anti-golem story, making the point that the robot Terminus is only "a machine, an insensate machine, capable of transmitting a . . . [previously recorded] set of sounds—that and nothing more" (206, 202), even when the sounds are the desperate Morse code messages of a dying crew.