โ Scribed by Roger MacBride Allen
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The world of Inferno is dying. A world where Spacers work with Settlers, where standard Three-Law robots exist alongside the controversial New-Law robots. A world that will be uninhabitable in a few decades. Their only hope comes from a plan some call insane, and some call visionary: drop a comet on the planet.
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Humans' plans to deflect a comet to crash into their dying world and bring needed water conflicts with the Laws of Robotics.
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