A
As I move
The first three words of the novel make it clear that Isaac Asimov will be a major figure throughout, even though he's never mentioned as a writer. Sladek used the name "I-click As-i-move" as the author of his Asimov parody story "Broot Force".[1]
An Inspector Calls
the Fairmont police
Sauce Harpeau
The poor we have always with us
Wedgwood
asimov circuits ... three laws
a fencepost ... an animal perched upon it, ears twitching
watched vids or listened to quads
Calvary roses
As you can see, it's a nursery rhyme
B
What the hammer? What the chain?
stamped out like apostle spoons
Uncle Rasselas
the kitchen help, Ben, Jemima, Molasses and Big Mac
the waiters, Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Spiro
Côtes Des Moines
fluorescent white peruke
mink lapels on a jacket of diamondback rattlesnake, a neon tie with a wicker suit, magnesium alloy chain-mail, Harris tweed dicky with kid jacket
a micro-record of the Prado
C
Darnaway's disease
Their great plantation, Tenoaks, their leisurely antebellum life
Doddly Culpepper
Gone with the Wind and The Foxes of Harrow
one of the sex-equipped robots
wanting to find out what Gulliver saw in them
imitation Stephen Foster songs
the Maillardet family exhibited their mechanical boy
mistake machine loopiness for real lupinus
brandishing her Sabatier
D
Painting was unlocking my prison and striking off my chains
Has he raped you yet
On my body, fake muscles bulged
A robot wedding
E
They had only one eye between the three of them
whether life was reconciliation or renunciation
The idea of turning moral decisions into digital data
F
a Mogul miniature painted about 1600
the caustic Ruritanian cartoonist
not even Hornby can afford real servants
it is meat to be here
Honest Engine
G
H