10 August 2014, 10:01 AM
RonboStory with sub-title, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
I remember reading a short story where an android experiments on it's self, after discovering "he" is not human, but an android. Some how "it" discovers how it's chest opens to see a computer tape running.
What was the name of this story?
10 August 2014, 11:28 AM
philnicHi Ronbo, and welcome.
I would say the story you describe is NOT a Ray Bradbury story, but is likely to be "The Electric Ant" by Philip K. Dick.
Details here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Electric_Ant10 August 2014, 12:40 PM
RonboCould be, but I surely don't remember anything about the main character being an ant
10 August 2014, 12:46 PM
Ronbooops. My bad. "electric ant" was a term meaning Organic robot, which makes sense

11 August 2014, 12:29 AM
philnicAll the places you can find this widely-anthologised tale:
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?5352611 August 2014, 09:31 AM
douglasSPWow, you're good, Phil! I first read that story about three months ago.
11 August 2014, 01:45 PM
philnicI just know what I know!
I read the story back in the '80s, and the central image Ronbo described stuck with me - but the title of the story didn't. A quick look on Wikipedia for a list of stories by PKD gave me a hunch as to the forgotten title, which I then looked up on ISFDB... and a quick scan down the list of anthology appearances revealed just one anthology I remember reading (DECADE: THE 1960s, edited by Aldiss and Harrison).
Simple!
11 August 2014, 04:19 PM
Doug Spauldingquote:
Originally posted by philnic:
Simple!
Just call him Sherlock! Quite the deducer, you!
16 August 2014, 08:05 AM
douglasSPI encountered it in this terrific book:
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?296059