In another novel, these beings aim to discredit a religion whose elderly prophet eternally walks up a mountain as rocks are tossed at him.
One of these beings dies in a shipwreck on the voyage taking it back to England from Thomas Edison's house, in the novel that popularized this term, Tomorrow's Eve by Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam. In another novel, these beings aim to discredit a religion whose elderly prophet eternally walks up a mountain as rocks are tossed at him. A terrorist "Union of Concerned Scientists" known as UnConSciya plans bombings in protest of the Tsar's control over these beings, in a novel in which they are produced from the rapidly-depleting (*) mineral groznium. Ben Winters wrote a steampunk parody of Anna Karenina featuring these beings, a "paranoid" one of which named Marvin serves the ship Heart of Gold in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. For 10 points, the film Blade Runner is an adaptation of Philip K. Dick's novel asking if what beings Dream of Electric Sheep?
One of these beings dies in a shipwreck on the voyage taking it back to England from Thomas Edison's house, in the novel that popularized this term, Tomorrow's Eve by Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam.
androids [prompt on robots; do not accept or prompt on “replicants”]