Lost Memory

'''Phillips, Peter. "Lost Memory."' Galaxy'' May 1952. Frequently rpt. including Gateway to Tomorrow. John Carnell, ed. London: Museum P, 1954. The Coming of the Robots. Sam Moskowitz, ed. New York: Collier, 1963. Themes in Science Fiction. Leo P. Kelley, ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972.

First contact between a seriously wounded astronaut in a spaceship and robot aliens, narrated from the robotic point of view; the robots do not understand that the sentience they've encountered is the small human and not the big ship. Discussed by T. Krulick, "Bounded by Metal," listed under Literary Criticism, one of sources for this entry.