
Robot Gunslinger vs. Frontier Man, Amazing Stories Aug-Sep 1953
A chrome-plated robot with a glowing red eye-beam confronts a bearded frontiersman loading supplies outside a stone building in what appears to be a science fiction Wild West mashup. The spindly mechanical figure dominates the left foreground, its spherical head and articulated limbs rendered in polished silver and blue tones, while the rugged human — oblivious or defiant — hauls cargo near a wagon wheel. The collision of frontier Americana and robot menace epitomizes Atomic Age pulp tension.
When a chrome-brained robot rolls into the frontier with a death-ray eye, even the toughest trail hand better drop his saddlebags and run — Walter M. Miller Jr. serves up robot westerns before it was cool!
“AMAZING STORIES ANC | A ZIFF-DAVIS PUBLICATION | 35¢ | AUGUST-SEPTEMBER | A GREAT NEW NOVELETTE BY WALTER M. MILLER, JR. | Kendall Foster Crossen • Henry Kuttner • Algis Budrys”





