"The Huddling Place" Rating: Five Planets
by Clifford D. Simak  
pub. 1944  
collected in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. I  
   
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In the 22nd century an eminent surgeon living on an isolated estate discovers that his isolation has caused acute agoraphobia. Then he is summoned to Mars to perform life-saving surgery on a Martian philosopher who is on the brink of the discovery of a new truth for the future of mankind.

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Atom BulletSimak uses the title of this story in two different ways in the course of the narrative. Define and explain.
Atom Bullet What seems to be the ability of the robot Jenkins? Does he seem to adhere to Asimov's Laws of Robotics?

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Atom Bullet Compare this story to "The Machine Stops" by E.M. Forster.

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