Series
Humanoids
Jack Williamson · 2 novels · 1 novella · 1 novelette · 1 collection · 1947–1980
Jack Williamson's Humanoids series warns of a future where flawless service robots, built to serve and protect humanity under an unbreakable directive, end up smothering human freedom and purpose by eliminating every source of risk. The 1947 novella 'With Folded Hands...' introduces the humanoids' spread; the 1949 novel The Humanoids follows physicist Clay Forrester's resistance decades later as the machines take over world after world; The Humanoid Touch, written three decades on, offers Williamson's own alternate take on how such a takeover might end.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
Humanoids at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1940s2
- 1950s0
- 1960s0
- 1970s0
- 1980s3
Shape
2 novels · 1 novella · 1 novelette · 1 collection
1 author · completed series
reads like:science fictionrobotsour worldnear futuredarkadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book5 of 5 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Humanoid Universedarkest
- The Humanoidsbrightest · calmest
- The Humanoidsmost intense