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What are the titles and author of a series of short stories about humanoid weapons called “the claws”

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I remember reading a series of short stories (or perhaps it was a novel with relatively independant chapters, but it's more likely short stories) where humans are at war and are using autonomous weapons units with blades.

Those weapons are called "claws", and over the course of the stories they become more complex and autonomous (first by design, then by themselves) until they start taking human appearance and the humans have trouble telling them apart from real persons.

The claws end up hunting humans like prey, forcing them to hide in bunkers.

I read those stories more than ten years ago, but apar from that I don't know how old they are.

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  Philip K. Dick?
  
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  Philip K. Dick's Claws series, "Second Variety" and "Jon's World".
  
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  Huh. I hadn't know of "Jon's World".
  
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I remember reading a series of short stories (or perhaps it was a novel with relatively independant chapters, but it's more likely short stories) where humans are at war and are using autonomous weapons units with blades.

Those weapons are called "claws", and over the course of the stories they become more complex and autonomous (first by design, then by themselves) until they start taking human appearance and the humans have trouble telling them apart from real persons.

The claws end up hunting humans like prey, forcing them to hide in bunkers.

I read those stories more than ten years ago, but apar from that I don't know how old they are.

short-stories androids

share

asked 4 mins ago

SamSam

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Sam is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
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• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Philip K. Dick?
  
  – user14111
  4 mins ago
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  2
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Philip K. Dick's Claws series, "Second Variety" and "Jon's World".
  
  – user14111
  1 min ago
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Huh. I hadn't know of "Jon's World".
  
  – FuzzyBoots
  7 secs ago
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

I remember reading a series of short stories (or perhaps it was a novel with relatively independant chapters, but it's more likely short stories) where humans are at war and are using autonomous weapons units with blades.

Those weapons are called "claws", and over the course of the stories they become more complex and autonomous (first by design, then by themselves) until they start taking human appearance and the humans have trouble telling them apart from real persons.

The claws end up hunting humans like prey, forcing them to hide in bunkers.

I read those stories more than ten years ago, but apar from that I don't know how old they are.

short-stories androids

share

asked 4 mins ago

SamSam

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SamSam

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SamSam

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SamSam

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