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Virtuoso

Herbert Goldstone

First published February 1953
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

"The maestro plays the piano as the robot listens and asks questions. And then it, the robot, plays the piano superbly. The maestro becomes excited, invites experts to come hear the robot play, but the robot has seen the maestro cry at the robot's playing beautifully and refuses to play because tears are a sign of harm to humans and he has been programmed never to harm humans." (RayS)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
February 1953 Cover The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 1953 Fantasy House, Inc. MAGAZINE 67
May 1954 Cover Science-Fiction Thinking Machines: Robots, Androids, Computers Vanguard Press Anthology 60
August 1955 Cover Selections from Science-Fiction Thinking Machines Bantam Books Anthology 18
July 1960 Cover S-Fマガジン 1960年07月号, #6 早川書房 MAGAZINE 111
September 1964 Cover Selections from Science-Fiction Thinking Machines Bantam Books Anthology 20
1971 Cover Kleine science fiction omnibus 2 Bruna Anthology 193
1973 Cover Galaktika 5: Tudományos-fantasztikus antológia Kozmosz Könyvek Anthology 60
1977 Cover Kleine science fiction omnibus 2 Bruna Anthology 193
August 1983 75 Short Masterpieces: Stories from the World's Literature Bantam Books Anthology 101
December 2020 Cover We, Robots Ad Astra / Head of Zeus Anthology |302
December 2020 Cover We, Robots Ad Astra / Head of Zeus Anthology |302
December 2021 Cover We, Robots Apollo / Head of Zeus Anthology |302