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Isaac Asimov's Caliban
by Roger MacBride Allen
ISBN: 0441004822
ISBN-13: 9780441004829
Format: Paperback
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Summary
The third book in the "Isaac Asimov's Caliban" series depicts a rapidly deteriorating world: Robots adhering to Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics coexist with humankind in an uneasy alliance with the New Law robots created after Caliban's revolution. The only way to save the planet involves a risky plan that may destroy it. With some robots pledged to protect humans from harm at any cost, it is a risk that might not be allowed.
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Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Berkley Pub Group
Published date: 1997
Size: 4.5 x 7 inches
Weight: 0.35 pounds
Publisher's Notes
First in a powerful trilogy that examines Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics--a challenge welcomed and sanctioned by Isaac Asimov, and written with his cooperation. When an experiment with a new type of robot goes awry, the unthinkable happens...Caliban is created. A robot without guilt or conscience, a robot wit no knowledge of or compassion for humanity...A robot without the Three Laws.
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Isaac Asimov
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Roger MacBride Allen
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