"An Empty Bottle," a short story by Mari Wolf

"An Empty Bottle" is a short story written by Mari Wolf and published in the September 1952 issue of If magazine.

Mari Wolf’s influence on science fiction is one that has endured over the past 70 years: She’s the first person to use “droid” in describing a robot. “An Empty Bottle” is just one of a handful of stories she had published. She also wrote about science fiction fandom. In addition to her fiction writing, she worked at Jet Propulsion Laboratory.