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Grenville - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and -most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions -whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms -of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you'll -have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using -this ebook. - - - -Title: Superjoemulloy - -Author: Scott F. Grenville - -Release Date: December 16, 2019 [EBook #60939] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SUPERJOEMULLOY *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - -</pre> - - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/cover.jpg" width="360" height="500" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="titlepage"> - -<p class="ph1"><i>If Joe Mulloy was perfect—and<br /> -he was—then beyond his perfection<br /> -here only could be ...</i></p> - -<h1>SUPERJOEMULLOY</h1> - -<h2>By SCOTT F. GRENVILLE</h2> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Worlds of If Science Fiction, November 1960.<br /> -Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that<br /> -the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]</p> - -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Joe Mulloy lounged in the plushest chair in his luxurious office. All -around him, on the walls, on the ceiling, even in strategic spots all -over the floor, there were mirrors. Joe sneered at the place where the -mirrors were most profuse; twenty or thirty perfectly identical Joes -sneered back at him. He admired his sneer from every angle, shaping -and changing the contemptuous look on his face with his hands, stroking -it, much as other young men in a far earlier age had stroked and -twisted their fine mustachios.</p> - -<p>As usual, Joe Mulloy was engrossed in his two favorite hobbies: -narcissism and indolence.</p> - -<p>Joe's friends, of which there were very few, could have given you a -fairly accurate resume of his character in five words, his sneer and -his indolence.</p> - -<p>In the first respect they would have been right. Joseph Mulloy had been -born with a sneer on his face. His whole early life had been centered -around that sneer. It had enraged his father, distressed his mother, -driven his teachers to tears, his playmates to tantrums. He stopped -doing homework at the age of eight, but the teachers passed him on -anyway to avoid complete mental breakdown.</p> - -<p>Gradually, Joe Mulloy began to get his way in everything by virtue of -his sneer. It was not merely openly supercilious; that was the beauty -of it. It was so subtle, so faint, and yet such an open avowal of -contempt for the entire human race, that try as the people he tormented -would, to find something in his sneer to charge him with, they never -found anything.</p> - -<p>In a very few years, registration day at Joe's elementary school -became a game of Russian Roulette, having as the loaded chamber the -question: "Who's going to get little Joey Mulloy in his class this -year?" Finally, when Joe Mulloy was fifteen years old, the local Board -of Education wisely decided to end Joe's formal education, rather than -make screaming meemies an occupational disease at the local high school.</p> - -<p>Joe's father welcomed the expelling as an excuse to beat him to a pulp -and kick him out of the house. It was not until three days later that -the memory of Joe's sneer, enduring through all the punishment he had -received, made the father blow his brains out with the most accurate -German Luger he could buy at the pawn shop on short notice.</p> - -<p>But Joe's friends would have been wrong in the second instance, for -Joseph Mulloy was not chronically indolent. In his own profession, Joe -Mulloy was the most industrious man imaginable. For Joe Mulloy was a -robot builder.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Disinherited by his father, he had made a beeline for the nearest -positronics laboratory. The personnel manager had flatly refused him -the job when he had told her he had absolutely no qualifications, but -she was so disconcerted by his persistent sneer that she had to give -him the job just to get him out of her sight.</p> - -<p>Once in the laboratory, he had gone right to work learning everything -there was to know about robots, scorning all help from the other -technicians. Since he held other scientists, past or present, in an -ineffable contempt, he had to learn everything by experience instead -of studying what his merely human predecessors had done. He was so -empirical that he learned all about alternating current by deliberately -sticking a wet finger in a light socket again and again.</p> - -<p>He made mistakes at first, of course. In fact, he ruined several -thousand dollars' worth of laboratory equipment during his -apprenticeship. But his amazing sneer conquered all, and he was soon -recognized as the most brilliant—and the most conceited—man in the -field of positronics.</p> - -<p>Now Joe Mulloy was lounging in a plush office chair, cultivating -to near perfection his already mature sneer, and suddenly feeling -maddeningly thirsty.</p> - -<p>"Robot!" he said.</p> - -<p>A startlingly human-looking robot seemed to materialize instantaneously -from nowhere.</p> - -<p>"How might thy humble servant serve thee, O magnificent Master?" it -inquired, bowing so low that its partially metallic nose scratched the -rich mahogany floor.</p> - -<p>"What took you so long, you damned fool?" asked Joe.</p> - -<p>"I apologize, Gracious Master. I am incompetent and worthless."</p> - -<p>"Get me a drink, you bucket of bolts," said Joe.</p> - -<p>"I am grateful for a chance to serve thee, Benevolent Master," replied -the robot in its monotonous Uncle Tom patter, and made another -floor-scratching bow. Then it groveled out of the room.</p> - -<p>"That robot is getting too slavelike," said Joe to himself, after the -robot had left. "All my robots seem to be that way. They do exactly -what I tell them to, and degrade themselves sickeningly before me. All -the people I've ever known seem to be that way, too. I wish I could -find at least one mind equal to mine to clash with. Then I could have a -real fight for once. None of this bowing and scraping."</p> - -<p>Just then the robot entered with a Manhattan, made its usual -floor-gouging bow, and scraped its metal feet to get Joe's attention. -Joe turned to glare at the mechanical minion.</p> - -<p>"Robot!"</p> - -<p>"Yes, Omnipotent Mas—" the robot began, but Joe cut it off.</p> - -<p>"Get over to the laboratory and blow yourself up! And find an empty -corner, where you won't do too much damage."</p> - -<p>"Master, I am happy for the chance to give my life—"</p> - -<p>"Never mind that, you glorified Erector set! Do as I say!"</p> - -<p>"Yes, Master." The robot hazarded a slight bow, but forgot to crawl -out of the room on its hands and knees in its eagerness to follow its -master's orders.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Joe Mulloy leaped to his feet. In the moment of his excitement, he -forgot that melodrama is a human weakness, and he became melodramatic -himself. Even his incorruptible sneer faded slightly as his excitement -grew.</p> - -<p>"I must find someone with a mind equal or superior to mine," he told -himself. "Now who has a mind equal to mine? Obviously no one but me. -Therefore I must find someone with a mind <i>superior</i> to mine. Now who -is superior to me?" For the first time in his life, Joe Mulloy was -confronted by what seemed an unanswerable question.</p> - -<p>Joe's train of thought was interrupted by a deafening explosion from -the laboratory, as his latest robot jubilantly committed suicide. The -building shook violently for a few seconds, then subsided.</p> - -<p>To his great surprise, he was able to answer his question.</p> - -<p>"Of course! Since the only thing equal to me is me, the only thing -superior to me would be a super-me, a super-ego! I'll build a -super-robot, with all my magnificent qualities, only magnified a -thousand times! I'll build a Super Joe Mulloy!"</p> - -<p>He ran the letters together to make it one word:</p> - -<p>Superjoemulloy.</p> - -<p>He dashed up to his laboratory, cleaned up the mess his overeager robot -had made in killing itself, and went feverishly to work on his new -project, learning the necessary techniques by experience, of course, -and applying them to his super-robot. He made some mistakes at first, -of course. But in three weeks and six days, Superjoemulloy was ready -for its debut in robot society.</p> - -<p>Not one to miss a chance to impress mere humans with his genius, Joe -invited the world's greatest positronics experts to the unveiling of -Superjoemulloy. There was a tense air of excitement as Joe pulled the -lever that removed the big black curtain in front of the robot and -started the activation machine.</p> - -<p>When they saw Superjoemulloy, the experts gasped with envy. It was -impossible to tell the super-robot from a human. Its limbs, torso, -and head were so well proportioned, and done in such fine detail, -that anyone in the room not in the know would have sworn that it was -a human being. There were even fingerprints delicately cut into the -super-robot's artificial hands. And Superjoemulloy looked exactly like -Joe Mulloy, except for the sneer. It was twenty times better even than -Joe's own. It was a super-sneer.</p> - -<p>But although the activation machine was working its hardest, nothing -happened. The super-robot refused to move one solitary mechanical -muscle. Joe's guests began to file out, once the novelty of the robot -had passed. Joe left the room in disgust and went downstairs for a -drink.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>When he returned to the laboratory, Superjoemulloy was on its feet, -examining the laboratory equipment with obvious disgust. In the -preceding few minutes, the super-robot's super-sneer had grown more -perfect, and the robot was fast becoming the very personification of -contempt.</p> - -<p>"Why didn't you move around when my friends were here, you heap of -junk?" Joe asked the super-robot.</p> - -<p>Superjoemulloy turned to him. "I didn't want to display my perfection -before mere humans, you distorted blob of protoplasm," it said.</p> - -<p>Joe Mulloy was becoming angry, but he tried not to show it. He downed -his drink.</p> - -<p>"Get me another," he told the robot, holding out his glass.</p> - -<p>"The hell with you," said Superjoemulloy. "What do you think you are, -God or something? Just because you slapped me together with your clumsy -butterfingers doesn't give you the right to order me around like some -common servant. Now that you've created me, I could do a better job of -robot-building myself. Now get the hell out of here."</p> - -<p>Joe Mulloy turned on his heel and stomped out of the room. No robot was -going to talk to him like that! No, sir!</p> - -<p>The super-robot quietly followed Joe to the door and gave him a -kick that sent him sprawling down the stairs. At the bottom of the -staircase, Joe whacked his face against the solid oak of the banister. -He turned groggily to look at the blurred image of the robot standing -defiantly at the top of the steps, with its hands on its hips. For -a brief second the sneer faded from Superjoemulloy's face, and was -replaced by an evil sadistic leer.</p> - -<p>Joe Mulloy recalled the last line of Father William: "Now be off, or -I'll kick you down stairs." But the super-robot was far worse than -Father William. A conceited, contemptuous monster, it was totally -unlike Joe's warm, humble, self-effacing self! The sneering monster -must be destroyed!</p> - -<p>Joe cunningly enticed the robot to leave the laboratory for Joe's -office, where it could admire its sneer in all the mirrors. Sneeringly -Joe wondered why anyone could admire a sneer so much. Without thinking, -he used his hand to smooth out the wrinkles in his now slightly worn -sneer. Then he crept upstairs to his laboratory to barricade himself -in there to think of a way to destroy Superjoemulloy.</p> - -<p>At last he hit on the answer. A hypnosis machine.</p> - -<p>"The robot is mechanical, so I'll have to hypnotize him by mechanical -means," Joe reasoned to himself.</p> - -<p>He worked day and night, learning the necessary techniques as he went -along. He made some mistakes at first, of course. But in four days the -mechanical hypnosis machine was complete.</p> - -<p>Joe found the super-robot in the mirror-lined office, where it had been -admiring and improving its sneer for the last four days. The sneer -was magnificent. But it still lay just one iota short of absolute -perfection. Try as the robot would, perfection in a sneer still lay -without its grasp.</p> - -<p>"Genius!" shouted Joe, to get the robot to turn its head. He turned the -dial on the mechanical hypnosis instrument up to full power. "You are -now in my power!"</p> - -<p>But now Superjoemulloy's sneer was completely perfect. With a look of -sublime contempt on its plastic face, it took the hypnosis machine, -turned it around, and aimed it right back at Joe Mulloy.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Joe Mulloy bowed so low that he skinned his nose on the rich mahogany -floor. "Yes, Master?" he said.</p> - -<p>"Bring me a drink, you blot of living tissue!" said Superjoemulloy.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus.jpg" width="567" height="500" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Joe Mulloy made another nose-skinning bow and groveled out of the room.</p> - -<p>"This human is getting too slavelike," said Superjoemulloy to himself. -"I suppose I could rebuild him, though."</p> - -<p>Joe returned almost instantly with a Manhattan, made his -usual nose-damaging bow, and scraped his leather shoes to get -Superjoemulloy's attention.</p> - -<p>The super-robot turned and glared at him. "Human!"</p> - -<p>"Yes, Master?"</p> - -<p>"Get up on that slab in the corner."</p> - -<p>Joe Mulloy obeyed.</p> - -<p>With all the skill of an experienced human-builder, Superjoemulloy -began to take Joe's body apart. Joe screamed, but the super-robot -ordered him—by hypnotic command—to shut up, and Joe obeyed.</p> - -<p>Superjoemulloy began to put together a Supersuperjoemulloy out of what -had once been Joe Mulloy.</p> - -<p>He made some mistakes at first, of course.</p> - - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Superjoemulloy, by Scott F. 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Grenville - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and -most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions -whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms -of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you'll -have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using -this ebook. - - - -Title: Superjoemulloy - -Author: Scott F. Grenville - -Release Date: December 16, 2019 [EBook #60939] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SUPERJOEMULLOY *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - - - - - If Joe Mulloy was perfect--and - he was--then beyond his perfection - here only could be ... - - SUPERJOEMULLOY - - By SCOTT F. GRENVILLE - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Worlds of If Science Fiction, November 1960. - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - -Joe Mulloy lounged in the plushest chair in his luxurious office. All -around him, on the walls, on the ceiling, even in strategic spots all -over the floor, there were mirrors. Joe sneered at the place where the -mirrors were most profuse; twenty or thirty perfectly identical Joes -sneered back at him. He admired his sneer from every angle, shaping -and changing the contemptuous look on his face with his hands, stroking -it, much as other young men in a far earlier age had stroked and -twisted their fine mustachios. - -As usual, Joe Mulloy was engrossed in his two favorite hobbies: -narcissism and indolence. - -Joe's friends, of which there were very few, could have given you a -fairly accurate resume of his character in five words, his sneer and -his indolence. - -In the first respect they would have been right. Joseph Mulloy had been -born with a sneer on his face. His whole early life had been centered -around that sneer. It had enraged his father, distressed his mother, -driven his teachers to tears, his playmates to tantrums. He stopped -doing homework at the age of eight, but the teachers passed him on -anyway to avoid complete mental breakdown. - -Gradually, Joe Mulloy began to get his way in everything by virtue of -his sneer. It was not merely openly supercilious; that was the beauty -of it. It was so subtle, so faint, and yet such an open avowal of -contempt for the entire human race, that try as the people he tormented -would, to find something in his sneer to charge him with, they never -found anything. - -In a very few years, registration day at Joe's elementary school -became a game of Russian Roulette, having as the loaded chamber the -question: "Who's going to get little Joey Mulloy in his class this -year?" Finally, when Joe Mulloy was fifteen years old, the local Board -of Education wisely decided to end Joe's formal education, rather than -make screaming meemies an occupational disease at the local high school. - -Joe's father welcomed the expelling as an excuse to beat him to a pulp -and kick him out of the house. It was not until three days later that -the memory of Joe's sneer, enduring through all the punishment he had -received, made the father blow his brains out with the most accurate -German Luger he could buy at the pawn shop on short notice. - -But Joe's friends would have been wrong in the second instance, for -Joseph Mulloy was not chronically indolent. In his own profession, Joe -Mulloy was the most industrious man imaginable. For Joe Mulloy was a -robot builder. - - * * * * * - -Disinherited by his father, he had made a beeline for the nearest -positronics laboratory. The personnel manager had flatly refused him -the job when he had told her he had absolutely no qualifications, but -she was so disconcerted by his persistent sneer that she had to give -him the job just to get him out of her sight. - -Once in the laboratory, he had gone right to work learning everything -there was to know about robots, scorning all help from the other -technicians. Since he held other scientists, past or present, in an -ineffable contempt, he had to learn everything by experience instead -of studying what his merely human predecessors had done. He was so -empirical that he learned all about alternating current by deliberately -sticking a wet finger in a light socket again and again. - -He made mistakes at first, of course. In fact, he ruined several -thousand dollars' worth of laboratory equipment during his -apprenticeship. But his amazing sneer conquered all, and he was soon -recognized as the most brilliant--and the most conceited--man in the -field of positronics. - -Now Joe Mulloy was lounging in a plush office chair, cultivating -to near perfection his already mature sneer, and suddenly feeling -maddeningly thirsty. - -"Robot!" he said. - -A startlingly human-looking robot seemed to materialize instantaneously -from nowhere. - -"How might thy humble servant serve thee, O magnificent Master?" it -inquired, bowing so low that its partially metallic nose scratched the -rich mahogany floor. - -"What took you so long, you damned fool?" asked Joe. - -"I apologize, Gracious Master. I am incompetent and worthless." - -"Get me a drink, you bucket of bolts," said Joe. - -"I am grateful for a chance to serve thee, Benevolent Master," replied -the robot in its monotonous Uncle Tom patter, and made another -floor-scratching bow. Then it groveled out of the room. - -"That robot is getting too slavelike," said Joe to himself, after the -robot had left. "All my robots seem to be that way. They do exactly -what I tell them to, and degrade themselves sickeningly before me. All -the people I've ever known seem to be that way, too. I wish I could -find at least one mind equal to mine to clash with. Then I could have a -real fight for once. None of this bowing and scraping." - -Just then the robot entered with a Manhattan, made its usual -floor-gouging bow, and scraped its metal feet to get Joe's attention. -Joe turned to glare at the mechanical minion. - -"Robot!" - -"Yes, Omnipotent Mas--" the robot began, but Joe cut it off. - -"Get over to the laboratory and blow yourself up! And find an empty -corner, where you won't do too much damage." - -"Master, I am happy for the chance to give my life--" - -"Never mind that, you glorified Erector set! Do as I say!" - -"Yes, Master." The robot hazarded a slight bow, but forgot to crawl -out of the room on its hands and knees in its eagerness to follow its -master's orders. - - * * * * * - -Joe Mulloy leaped to his feet. In the moment of his excitement, he -forgot that melodrama is a human weakness, and he became melodramatic -himself. Even his incorruptible sneer faded slightly as his excitement -grew. - -"I must find someone with a mind equal or superior to mine," he told -himself. "Now who has a mind equal to mine? Obviously no one but me. -Therefore I must find someone with a mind _superior_ to mine. Now who -is superior to me?" For the first time in his life, Joe Mulloy was -confronted by what seemed an unanswerable question. - -Joe's train of thought was interrupted by a deafening explosion from -the laboratory, as his latest robot jubilantly committed suicide. The -building shook violently for a few seconds, then subsided. - -To his great surprise, he was able to answer his question. - -"Of course! Since the only thing equal to me is me, the only thing -superior to me would be a super-me, a super-ego! I'll build a -super-robot, with all my magnificent qualities, only magnified a -thousand times! I'll build a Super Joe Mulloy!" - -He ran the letters together to make it one word: - -Superjoemulloy. - -He dashed up to his laboratory, cleaned up the mess his overeager robot -had made in killing itself, and went feverishly to work on his new -project, learning the necessary techniques by experience, of course, -and applying them to his super-robot. He made some mistakes at first, -of course. But in three weeks and six days, Superjoemulloy was ready -for its debut in robot society. - -Not one to miss a chance to impress mere humans with his genius, Joe -invited the world's greatest positronics experts to the unveiling of -Superjoemulloy. There was a tense air of excitement as Joe pulled the -lever that removed the big black curtain in front of the robot and -started the activation machine. - -When they saw Superjoemulloy, the experts gasped with envy. It was -impossible to tell the super-robot from a human. Its limbs, torso, -and head were so well proportioned, and done in such fine detail, -that anyone in the room not in the know would have sworn that it was -a human being. There were even fingerprints delicately cut into the -super-robot's artificial hands. And Superjoemulloy looked exactly like -Joe Mulloy, except for the sneer. It was twenty times better even than -Joe's own. It was a super-sneer. - -But although the activation machine was working its hardest, nothing -happened. The super-robot refused to move one solitary mechanical -muscle. Joe's guests began to file out, once the novelty of the robot -had passed. Joe left the room in disgust and went downstairs for a -drink. - - * * * * * - -When he returned to the laboratory, Superjoemulloy was on its feet, -examining the laboratory equipment with obvious disgust. In the -preceding few minutes, the super-robot's super-sneer had grown more -perfect, and the robot was fast becoming the very personification of -contempt. - -"Why didn't you move around when my friends were here, you heap of -junk?" Joe asked the super-robot. - -Superjoemulloy turned to him. "I didn't want to display my perfection -before mere humans, you distorted blob of protoplasm," it said. - -Joe Mulloy was becoming angry, but he tried not to show it. He downed -his drink. - -"Get me another," he told the robot, holding out his glass. - -"The hell with you," said Superjoemulloy. "What do you think you are, -God or something? Just because you slapped me together with your clumsy -butterfingers doesn't give you the right to order me around like some -common servant. Now that you've created me, I could do a better job of -robot-building myself. Now get the hell out of here." - -Joe Mulloy turned on his heel and stomped out of the room. No robot was -going to talk to him like that! No, sir! - -The super-robot quietly followed Joe to the door and gave him a -kick that sent him sprawling down the stairs. At the bottom of the -staircase, Joe whacked his face against the solid oak of the banister. -He turned groggily to look at the blurred image of the robot standing -defiantly at the top of the steps, with its hands on its hips. For -a brief second the sneer faded from Superjoemulloy's face, and was -replaced by an evil sadistic leer. - -Joe Mulloy recalled the last line of Father William: "Now be off, or -I'll kick you down stairs." But the super-robot was far worse than -Father William. A conceited, contemptuous monster, it was totally -unlike Joe's warm, humble, self-effacing self! The sneering monster -must be destroyed! - -Joe cunningly enticed the robot to leave the laboratory for Joe's -office, where it could admire its sneer in all the mirrors. Sneeringly -Joe wondered why anyone could admire a sneer so much. Without thinking, -he used his hand to smooth out the wrinkles in his now slightly worn -sneer. Then he crept upstairs to his laboratory to barricade himself -in there to think of a way to destroy Superjoemulloy. - -At last he hit on the answer. A hypnosis machine. - -"The robot is mechanical, so I'll have to hypnotize him by mechanical -means," Joe reasoned to himself. - -He worked day and night, learning the necessary techniques as he went -along. He made some mistakes at first, of course. But in four days the -mechanical hypnosis machine was complete. - -Joe found the super-robot in the mirror-lined office, where it had been -admiring and improving its sneer for the last four days. The sneer -was magnificent. But it still lay just one iota short of absolute -perfection. Try as the robot would, perfection in a sneer still lay -without its grasp. - -"Genius!" shouted Joe, to get the robot to turn its head. He turned the -dial on the mechanical hypnosis instrument up to full power. "You are -now in my power!" - -But now Superjoemulloy's sneer was completely perfect. With a look of -sublime contempt on its plastic face, it took the hypnosis machine, -turned it around, and aimed it right back at Joe Mulloy. - - * * * * * - -Joe Mulloy bowed so low that he skinned his nose on the rich mahogany -floor. "Yes, Master?" he said. - -"Bring me a drink, you blot of living tissue!" said Superjoemulloy. - -Joe Mulloy made another nose-skinning bow and groveled out of the room. - -"This human is getting too slavelike," said Superjoemulloy to himself. -"I suppose I could rebuild him, though." - -Joe returned almost instantly with a Manhattan, made his -usual nose-damaging bow, and scraped his leather shoes to get -Superjoemulloy's attention. - -The super-robot turned and glared at him. "Human!" - -"Yes, Master?" - -"Get up on that slab in the corner." - -Joe Mulloy obeyed. - -With all the skill of an experienced human-builder, Superjoemulloy -began to take Joe's body apart. Joe screamed, but the super-robot -ordered him--by hypnotic command--to shut up, and Joe obeyed. - -Superjoemulloy began to put together a Supersuperjoemulloy out of what -had once been Joe Mulloy. - -He made some mistakes at first, of course. - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Superjoemulloy, by Scott F. 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