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Computers Don't Argue

Gordon R. Dickson

First published September 1965
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

Synopsis

A man has a complaint with his book club, but a series of errors escalate things alarmingly.

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Awards

YearAwardCategoryStatus
1966 Nebula Award Short Story Nominee/Finalist

Publications (46)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
September 1965 Analog Science Fiction -> Science Fact, September 1965 Condé Nast MAGAZINE 84
September 1966 Nebula Award Stories 1965 Doubleday Anthology 185
October 1966 Nebula Award Stories 1965 Doubleday / SFBC Anthology 185
March 1967 Nebula Award Stories 1 Gollancz Anthology 160
May 1967 Analog 5 Doubleday Anthology 63
November 1967 Nebula Award Stories Pocket Books Anthology 151
1968 Analog 5 Dennis Dobson Anthology 63
October 1968 Nebula Award Stories Pocket Books Anthology 151
October 1968 Nebula Award Stories Pocket Books Anthology 151
April 1969 Nebula Award Stories 1 New English Library Anthology 142
December 1969 Nebula Award Stories Pocket Books Anthology 151
December 1969 Nebula Award Stories Pocket Books Anthology 151
1970 Countercommandment and Other Stories Curtis Books Anthology 73
1971 Science Fictions University Tutorial Press (London) Anthology 84
April 1973 The Astounding-Analog Reader, Volume 2 Doubleday Anthology 443
February 1974 Wondermakers 2 Fawcett Premier Anthology 140
November 1974 Transformations II: Understanding American History Through Science Fiction Fawcett Crest Anthology 116
1976 You and Science Fiction National Textbook Co. Anthology 219
January 1977 Decade: The 1960s Macmillan UK Anthology 41
August 1977 Computers, Computers, Computers: In Fiction and in Verse Thomas Nelson Anthology 65|65.1
1978 Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology: The SFWA-SFRA Anthology Harper & Row Anthology 278
June 1978 Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology: The SFWA-SFRA Anthology Harper & Row Anthology 278
June 1979 Decade: The 1960s Pan Books Anthology 41
July 1980 Space Mail Fawcett Crest Anthology 93
December 1980 The Analog Anthology #1 Davis Publications Anthology 299
1981 Analog's Golden Anniversary Anthology The Dial Press Anthology 299
1981 Weekend Book of Science Fiction Harmsworth Publications Ltd. for Assoc. Newspapers Group Ltd. Anthology 46
March 1981 Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Treasury Bonanza Books / Crown Publishers Anthology 467
1982 Space Mail Fawcett Crest Anthology
1982 Fifty Years of the Best Science Fiction from Analog Davis Publications Anthology 299
1983 Those Amazing Electronic Thinking Machines!: An Anthology of Robot and Computer Stories Franklin Watts Anthology 101
December 1983 Computer Crimes and Capers Academy Chicago Anthology 23
December 1983 Computer Crimes and Capers Academy Chicago Anthology
1984 R-A-M Random Access Messages of the Computer Age Hayden Book Company Anthology 7
1984 R-A-M Random Access Messages of the Computer Age Hayden Book Company Anthology 7
1985 You and Science Fiction National Textbook Co. Anthology 219
July 1985 Microworlds: Tales of the Computer Age Severn House Anthology |7
December 1985 Microworlds Hamlyn Anthology 6
March 1986 Computer Crimes and Capers Penguin Books Anthology 30
October 1988 Ends Baen Books Collection 6
October 1988 Ends Baen Books Collection 6
1994 You and Science Fiction National Textbook Co. Anthology 219
1998 Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology: The SFWA-SFRA Anthology HarperCollins Anthology
February 2001 Nebula Award Stories Stealth Press Anthology 189
March 2006 Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Treasury Gramercy Books Anthology 467
January 2017 If This Goes Wrong... Baen Books Anthology 31