# Trying to find the name of a short story
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-the-name-of-a-short-story/656728
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**Created:** [April 26, 2013, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-the-name-of-a-short-story/656728 "2013-04-26T02:31:10Z")
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### Author:  [@courtlysavage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/courtlysavage)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2013, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-the-name-of-a-short-story/656728/1 "2013-04-26T02:31:10Z")
I’ve seen several threads like this on here and got excited thinking I might finally find an answer!
I’d like to find out the name of a short story I read in an anthology textbook I used in high school 15 years ago.
The story featured a man that is hunting, I think, and comes across some paralyzed animals. A robot ends up chasing the man. I think the robot is spherical. He eludes the robot for some time, but the robot finally catches him. The robot tosses the man around and lets him go.
Does anyone know this story?
Thank you!
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### Author:  [@Erdosain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erdosain)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2013, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-the-name-of-a-short-story/656728/2 "2013-04-26T02:53:37Z")
The Ruum?
> **[The Ruum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ruum)**
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> "The Ruum" is a 1953 science fiction short story by American writer Arthur Porges.
> A shape-shifting, indestructible robot—a "Type H-9 Ruum"—is accidentally left behind on earth during the age of the dinosaurs by visiting aliens, and not recovered because their ship is destroyed in a battle. The Ruum's work is to collect different species of animal within a 30-mile radius, weighing 160 pounds (give or take 15 pounds) and preserve them in a state of suspended animation for later retrieval.
> Millio...
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### Author:  [@courtlysavage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/courtlysavage)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2013, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-the-name-of-a-short-story/656728/3 "2013-04-26T03:18:40Z")
That’s it! Thank you very much!