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Isaac Asimov's Caliban
A robot named Caliban is designed to create his own nature, but he breaks out of the lab and is chased by police. New type of robots are built by scientists which are different from regular robots. Regular robots are built with a positronic brain, but the new robots are built with gravitonic brains. The difference is that positronic robots are slaves to people while gravitonic robots are partners and equal to people.
Caliban is a gravitonic robot but ...
Isaac Asimov's Inferno
A group of robots which were created to do labor in a city decide that they want to leave their city, and this causes a stir with the citizens. A new generation of robots are created that are partners with people. The difference is that old generation robots are slaves to people. There is much political outbursts from the people in the city of Inferno against the new generation robots. The new generation robots want to leave Inferno and go to a place whe...
Isaac Asimov's Utopia
A governor of a city devises a plan to create a sea by using a comet, but his actions are opposed because the comet is aimed at a city inhabited by robots. There is a governor named Kresh who lives with his wife Dr. Fredda Leving in a city filled with robots. Kresh devises a plan to a create a sea using the force of a comet. People soon find out about his plan.
An intelligence representative named Norlan discovers about the comet that Kresh is going t...
The Ocean Of Years - Chronicles of Solace 2
Bantam, July 2002, 6.50, 464 pp.
ISBN 0553583646
In the far distant future, mankind has been able to terraform whole planets so that humans could colonize them. Oskar DeSilvo is credited as the genius who brought this process about but Anton Koffield declares that the terraforming project is breaking down and if they don't evacuate the planet millions will die.
Although the authorities have proof that DeSilvo is still alive and has technologi...
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The Shores of Tomorrow
Bantam, Dec 2003, 6.50, 512
ISBN 0553583654
In the far distant future, mankind has learned, thanks to Oskar DeSilvo, how to terraform planets. Once that operation was complete, humanity would colonize that world but what few people know is that DeSilvo took credit for another person's concept. That individual had concluded that eventually terraforming would fail. The prediction proved true on the planet Blister just as it is now happening on S...
