At any rate, without quite knowing what dissatisfied me about the robot stories I read, I waited for something better, and I found it in the December… - Isaac Asimov

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At any rate, without quite knowing what dissatisfied me about the robot stories I read, I waited for something better, and I found it in the December 1938 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. That issue contained "Helen O'Loy" by Lester del Rey, a story in which a robot was portrayed sympathetically. It was, I believe, only his second story, but I was a del Rey fan forever after.