What are the titles and author of a series of short stories about humanoid weapons called “the claws”
I remember reading a series of short stories (or perhaps it was a novel with relatively independant chapters, but it's more likely short stories) where humans are at war and are using autonomous weapons units with blades.
Those weapons are called "claws", and over the course of the stories they become more complex and autonomous (first by design, then by themselves) until they start taking human appearance and the humans have trouble telling them apart from real persons.
The claws end up hunting humans like prey, forcing them to hide in bunkers.
I read those stories more than ten years ago, but apar from that I don't know how old they are.
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I remember reading a series of short stories (or perhaps it was a novel with relatively independant chapters, but it's more likely short stories) where humans are at war and are using autonomous weapons units with blades.
Those weapons are called "claws", and over the course of the stories they become more complex and autonomous (first by design, then by themselves) until they start taking human appearance and the humans have trouble telling them apart from real persons.
The claws end up hunting humans like prey, forcing them to hide in bunkers.
I read those stories more than ten years ago, but apar from that I don't know how old they are.
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Philip K. Dick's Claws series, "Second Variety" and "Jon's World".
– user14111
43 mins ago
Huh. I hadn't know of "Jon's World".
– FuzzyBoots
42 mins ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Variety
– user14111
42 mins ago
You can read "Second Variety" here: archive.org/details/…
– user14111
39 mins ago
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@Sam, you may have read some edition of P. K. Dick's collection Second Variety which contains the two "claws" stories among many others.
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I remember reading a series of short stories (or perhaps it was a novel with relatively independant chapters, but it's more likely short stories) where humans are at war and are using autonomous weapons units with blades.
Those weapons are called "claws", and over the course of the stories they become more complex and autonomous (first by design, then by themselves) until they start taking human appearance and the humans have trouble telling them apart from real persons.
The claws end up hunting humans like prey, forcing them to hide in bunkers.
I read those stories more than ten years ago, but apar from that I don't know how old they are.
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I remember reading a series of short stories (or perhaps it was a novel with relatively independant chapters, but it's more likely short stories) where humans are at war and are using autonomous weapons units with blades.
Those weapons are called "claws", and over the course of the stories they become more complex and autonomous (first by design, then by themselves) until they start taking human appearance and the humans have trouble telling them apart from real persons.
The claws end up hunting humans like prey, forcing them to hide in bunkers.
I read those stories more than ten years ago, but apar from that I don't know how old they are.
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Philip K. Dick's Claws series, "Second Variety" and "Jon's World".
– user14111
43 mins ago
Huh. I hadn't know of "Jon's World".
– FuzzyBoots
42 mins ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Variety
– user14111
42 mins ago
You can read "Second Variety" here: archive.org/details/…
– user14111
39 mins ago
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@Sam, you may have read some edition of P. K. Dick's collection Second Variety which contains the two "claws" stories among many others.
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Philip K. Dick's Claws series, "Second Variety" and "Jon's World".
– user14111
43 mins ago
Huh. I hadn't know of "Jon's World".
– FuzzyBoots
42 mins ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Variety
– user14111
42 mins ago
You can read "Second Variety" here: archive.org/details/…
– user14111
39 mins ago
1
@Sam, you may have read some edition of P. K. Dick's collection Second Variety which contains the two "claws" stories among many others.
– user14111
30 mins ago
3
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Philip K. Dick's Claws series, "Second Variety" and "Jon's World".
– user14111
43 mins ago
Philip K. Dick's Claws series, "Second Variety" and "Jon's World".
– user14111
43 mins ago
Huh. I hadn't know of "Jon's World".
– FuzzyBoots
42 mins ago
Huh. I hadn't know of "Jon's World".
– FuzzyBoots
42 mins ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Variety
– user14111
42 mins ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Variety
– user14111
42 mins ago
You can read "Second Variety" here: archive.org/details/…
– user14111
39 mins ago
You can read "Second Variety" here: archive.org/details/…
– user14111
39 mins ago
1
1
@Sam, you may have read some edition of P. K. Dick's collection Second Variety which contains the two "claws" stories among many others.
– user14111
30 mins ago
@Sam, you may have read some edition of P. K. Dick's collection Second Variety which contains the two "claws" stories among many others.
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30 mins ago
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Philip K. Dick's Claws series, "Second Variety" and "Jon's World".
– user14111
43 mins ago
Huh. I hadn't know of "Jon's World".
– FuzzyBoots
42 mins ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Variety
– user14111
42 mins ago
You can read "Second Variety" here: archive.org/details/…
– user14111
39 mins ago
1
@Sam, you may have read some edition of P. K. Dick's collection Second Variety which contains the two "claws" stories among many others.
– user14111
30 mins ago