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Title: Unspecialist

Author: Murray F. Yaco

Illustrator: Kelly Freas


Release date: November 11, 2007 [eBook #23443]
Most recently updated: April 10, 2023

Language: English

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Transcriber’s Note:

This etext was produced from Astounding Science Fiction, January, 1960. Extensive research did not reveal any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. Dialect spellings, contractions and discrepancies have been retained.

UNSPECIALIST

Cartoonish drawing of a military officer pining medals on a line of soldiers.

A machine can be built to do any accurately described job better than any man. The superiority of a man is that he can do an unexpected, undescribed, and emergency job ... provided he hasn’t been especially trained to be a machine.

BY MURRAY F. YACO