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Self Portrait

Bernard Wolfe

First published November 1951
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

Synopsis

Diary of a man who works at a government research facility. He tries to create the ultimate prosthetic leg while his friend tries to develop a chess playing computer. Apparently such computer would be the ultimate tactician and beat any other nation in a war.

Publications (10)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
November 1951 Galaxy Science Fiction, November 1951 Galaxy Publishing Corporation MAGAZINE 58
March 1953 The Robot and the Man Gnome Press Anthology 35
1954 The Robot and the Man Grayson & Grayson Anthology
April 1954 Second Galaxy Reader of Science Fiction Crown Publishers Anthology 385
October 1973 Tomorrow and Tomorrow Simon & Schuster Anthology 223
August 1974 Tomorrow and Tomorrow Gollancz Anthology 223
March 2016 Self Portrait Project Gutenberg Chapbook
December 2020 We, Robots Ad Astra / Head of Zeus Anthology |414
December 2020 We, Robots Ad Astra / Head of Zeus Anthology |414
December 2021 We, Robots Apollo / Head of Zeus Anthology |414