โ Scribed by Roger Macbride Allen
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
A comet, redirected to strike the ecologically bereft planet Inferno, could create new rivers or totally destroy the planet. The human colonists want to take the risk, but will the robots acquiesce? A satisfying conclusion to the trilogy (Inferno, Ace: Berkeley, 1994, and Caliban, LJ 2/15/93, coauthored with Asimov), which redefines Asimov's laws of robotics. Recommended for collections with the earlier books.
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On Inferno, the old tensions between Spacer and Settler are as strong as ever, but the two sides are working together reasonably well, with most robots now engaged in terraforming. But Governor Kresh is planning to bring the Comet Grieg down on Utopia to create an artificial sea.
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