Maxima Library

A man without a memory is stranded in a world-enveloping city filled with robots gone wild. At his side is a mysterious young woman who claims to know who he is but refuses to tell him. According to The Three Laws of Robotics,"A robot may not injure a human being," which narrows the suspects dramatically when the robots find a dead human body. The man calls himself Derec; the woman is know as Katherine. Their real identities, along with that of the murder victim and the murderer, are just a few of the life-and-death mysteries the unlikely pair are forced to solve to survive on the fantastic streets of Isaac Asimov's Robot City. The late Isaac Asimov challenged a talented group of science-fiction writers to resolve the conundrums he set for them in this complex robot mystery set early in the timeline of his robot and Foundation universes.

A man without a memory, trapped in a city of robots gone wild. At his side, a mysterious woman who claims to know who he is, but refuses to tell him. Together they must find an insane cyborg stalking the streets of Robot City, a time bomb indistinguishable from ordinary robots. The young man's name is Derec. The identity of his femail companion and the location of the cyborg are just two of the mysteries he must solve within the fantastic confines of a most unlikely metropolis.

A man without a memory named Derec and a mysterious woman now known as Ariel, are trapped on the confusing, surprising and sometimes deadly world of Robot City. Derec learns that Ariel is stricken with a disease that leads to fatal madness, and both are startled to learn that the robots' positronic consciousness has given rise to artistic expressions even as the city itself grows ever more deadly to all of its inhabitants.

A man without a memory, in a city of robots gone wild. At his side a mysetrious woman whose own identity he as reconstructed, and whose memories of him may be true or false. The young man calls himself Derec. In the shattering climax to his quest he discovers the shocking secret of his true identity. Tormented by a nightmarish disease, Derec maust face the genius Dr. Avery and compel him to reveal the truth.

A man without a memory, in a city of robots gone wild. At his side a mysetrious woman whose own identity he as reconstructed, and whose memories of him may be true or false. The young man calls himself Derec. In the shattering climax to his quest he discovers the shocking secret of his true identity. Tormented by a nightmarish disease, Derec maust face the genius Dr. Avery and compel him to reveal the truth.