Synopsis

A machine intelligence from Mars comes to Earth to explore and encounters many unfamiliar things.

History

First publication: Amazing, April 1932

Published as by John Beynon Harris.

Review

Told from POV of the machine. I previously thought that Binder’s I Robot was the first to sympathetically characterize a robot. That is wrong since this story is much earlier, even though the robot here is from Mars and is not called a robot, it’s the same thing. Very good story and recommended.