Segregationist (short story)
"Segregationist" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov.The story was written in April 1967 and was first published in December in Abbottempo, a magazine produced by Abbott Laboratories, then later included in the collections Nightfall and Other Stories (1969), The Complete Robot (1982) and Robot Visions (1990).Later, the surgeon remarks to a medical engineer that he would rather that humans and robots stick to being what they are instead of becoming similar.The engineer calls such talk "segregationist", to which the surgeon replies that he "doesn't care.""[1] In 1970, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction's Joanna Russ reviewed Best SF: 1968 "[i]t leans toward the obvious and toward stories which have one good, clear, conventional idea" counting "Segregationist" among them.