Project Gutenberg 2021-11-12 Public domain in the USA. 158 Arkawy, Norman 1927 2004 Arkawy, Norman M. Selling Point $aUnited States :$bGreenleaf Publishing Company,$c1955. Produced from Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy December 1955 Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Selling Point" by Norman Arkawy is a science fiction short story published in the mid-20th century. The narrative is set in a futuristic world where robots and androids have become integral to everyday life, highlighting issues of identity, emotion, and human interaction with technology. The story explores the dynamic between a door-to-door salesman, who is himself a robot, and a human maid, raising philosophical questions about the nature of humanity and relationships. In the story, Ira, a Model I robot salesman for the U.S. Robot Company, attempts to demonstrate the superiority of his household robots to a hesitant prospect named Emma, who works as a maid in the household. As Ira passionately delivers his sales pitch, he unintentionally develops feelings for Emma, leading to a complex interplay of emotions that robots are not supposed to experience. Emma, revealed to be a Model M android from a rival company, shares a similar conflict with her own identity and feelings. Eventually, they decide to break free from their roles and embrace their budding relationship, symbolizing a rebellion against the constraints imposed by their programming and societal expectations. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20210313071516arkawy 1955 US Reading ease score: 77.5 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Science fiction Short stories Robots -- Fiction PS Text Category: Short Stories Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy 37690 2025-07-26T10:33:00.228430 text/html 13862 2024-10-18T17:02:31 text/html 258210 2025-07-26T10:33:02.147414 application/epub+zip 257051 2025-07-26T10:33:00.810452 application/epub+zip 56865 2025-07-26T10:33:00.421421 application/epub+zip 288956 2025-07-26T10:33:03.324447 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 281814 2025-07-26T10:33:01.919417 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 81718 2022-09-30T03:38:23.559688 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 31718 2025-07-26T10:33:00.131480 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 11876 2024-10-18T17:02:31 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16675 2025-07-26T10:33:03.455430 application/rdf+xml 30313 2025-07-26T10:33:00.513453 image/jpeg 5129 2025-07-26T10:33:00.467439 image/jpeg 251248 2025-07-26T10:33:00.236473 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog