Robots Have No Tails

Robots Have No Tails is a 1952 collection of science fiction short stories by Lewis Padgett (pseudonym of American writers Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore). It was first published by Gnome Press in 1952^[1] in an edition of 4,000 copies. The stories all originally appeared in the magazine Astounding Stories.

Robots Have No Tails

Dust-jacket from the first edition
Author	Lewis Padgett
Cover artist	Ric Binkley
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	Gnome Press
Publication date	1952
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardback)
Pages	224

It has been reprinted in 1973 by Lancer books with an introduction by C.L. Moore; in 1983 in the UK by Hamlyn Books as The Proud Robot^[2] with an introduction by Peter Pinto; and lastly in 2009 in the US by Paizo Publishing LLC's Planet Stories line of books, with an additional introduction (to the one of Catherine Moore) by F. Paul Wilson. Both later editions credit Henry Kuttner as being the author, as does the introduction by C.L. Moore in the 1973 and 2009 editions.

Contents

• "The Proud Robot"
• "Gallegher Plus"
• "The World Is Mine"
• "Ex Machina"
• "Time Locker"

Reception

Groff Conklin wrote in his Galaxy review column that Robots Have No Tails was not good science fiction, but "zany imaginings of a rather anti-scientific sort."^[3] Boucher and McComas praised the collection as "a great joy.".^[4] P. Schuyler Miller praised the stories as "pure entertainment, lavishly applied."^[5]