The Ego Machine by Henry Kuttner and C.L.Moore

Ironic science fiction classics📖🤖🎭

Writer Nick Martin gets the chance to get rid of slavish contract with despotic Hollywood director. Thanks to the experiment of robot from the future, he tries on the character-matrices of outstanding persons from different epochs.

👌Funny, optimistic and slightly instructive. You look back at your own experience and think about the advantages of selective approach. Trying to use Disraeli’s tactics is useless and even dangerous with beings that are responsive only to arguments in the spirit of Mammoth-Slayer or at least Ivan the Terrible.

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“Audiences have come to expect garbage from Summit, and they’ve even been conditioned to like it. But we’ll begin in a small way to re-educate them with this picture. I suggest we try to symbolize the Existentialist hopelessness of it all by ending the film with a full 400 feet of seascapes”.

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“By all the laws of God and man, Mr. Martin I am and Mr. Martin I will remain, in spite of all attempts by rebellious dogs to depose me from my rightful place.”