The Reproductive System / The Muller-Fokker Effect / Tik-Tok

The Reproductive System

Wompler's Walking Babies aren't selling like they used to, so the company develops Project 32, producing self-replicating mechanisms designed to repair intercellular breakdowns. But then the metal boxes begin crawling about the laboratory, feeding voraciously on metal and multiplying.

The Muller-Fokker Effect

Bob Shairp—a writer and dreamer—has agreed to be a guinea-pig in a military experiment to find out if his personality can be turned into data and stored on a computer. But a computing error quickly destroys Shairp's physical body, leaving his mind stranded in an encoded world. Can the process be reversed?

Tik-Tok : Something has gone very seriously wrong with Tik-Tok's "asimov circuits." They should keep him following Asimov's First Law of "A robot shall not injure a human being, or through inaction allow a human being to come to harm." But they don't.