The Theme of the Machine

The Theme of the Machine. Allan Danzig, ed. Dubuque, IA: Brown, 1969.

Large number of selections from Ezekiel to R. Zelazny and F. Pohl, mostly brief works and excerpts from "mainstream" drama, essays, fiction, and poetry. Includes Act III of RUR (sic), "The Book of the Machines" chapters from Samuel Butler's Erewhon, E. T. A. Hoffmann's "Automata," H. G. Wells's "Lord of the Dynamos," Roger Zelazny's "For a Breath I Tarry," F. Pohl's "Day Million," and S. V. Benét's "Nightmare Number Three" (q.v. under Fiction), and H. Adam's "Dynamo and the Virgin," q.v. under Background.