Homo Inferior by Mari Wolf, Science Fiction, Adventure, Fantasy - Mari Wolf

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Résumé :
The starship waited. Cylindrical walls enclosed it, and a transparent plastic dome held it back from the sky and the stars. It waited, while night changed to day and back again, while the seasons merged one into another, and the years, and the centuries. It towered as gleaming and as uncorroded as it had when it was first built, long ago, when men had bustled about it and in it, their shouting and their laughter and the sound of their tools ringing against the metallic plates.
Now few men ever came to it. And those who did come merely looked with quiet faces for a few minutes, and then went away again.
The generations kaleidoscoped by. The Starship waited.

Biographie:
The term Droid was first used in the science fiction story Robots of the World! Arise! by Mari Wolf, published in If: Worlds of Science Fiction in July 1952:

Jack shook his head. It's crazy. They're swarming all over Carron City. They're stopping robots in the streets--household Robs, commercial Droids, all of them. -Mari Wolf, Robots of the World! Arise!