"Autofac" is a 1955 science fiction novelette by American writer Philip K. Dick that features one of the earliest treatments of self-replicating machines. It appeared originally in Galaxy Science Fiction of November 1955, and was reprinted in several collections, including The Variable Man published in 1957, and Robots, Androids, and Mechanical Oddities published in 1984.
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- contained in Beyond Controlanthology
- contained in Paycheckcollection
- contained in Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams: Volume Onecollection
- contained in Robots, Androids, and Mechanical Oddities: The Science Fiction of Philip K. Dickcollection
- contained in Selected Stories of Philip K. Dickcollection
- contained in The Best of Philip K. Dickcollection
- contained in The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dickcollection
- contained in The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick: Volume Threecollection
- contained in The Days of Perky Patcollection
- contained in The Ruins of Earthanthology
- contained in The Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick: Vol. 1collection
- contained in The Variable Man and Other Storiescollection