"Dick's attitude to highly-developed clever machinery is... far more complex than blanket suspicion hostility. Intelligent machines sometimes feature in his early work in much more benign roles, as in "The Last of the Masters" (1954), which features an altrustic robot."
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Brian Stableford, in Outside the Human Aquarium (2008)
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The Last of the Masters
The Last of the Masters (1954) (aka "Protection Agency") is a science fiction novelette by Philip K. Dick. It was published by Hanro Corporation in the final issue of Orbit Science Fiction in 1954. It has since been reprinted in several short story collections, beginning with The Golden Man in 1980. The primary theme of the story is the conflict between anarchism and statism, the political and ethical dimensions of which are explored through the characters' dialogue.
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