(pb; 1944,
2013: novella)
From
the inside flap
“It
seemed like a fairly simple mission. Make a routine supply run to Jupiter and
plant yourself in the Earth-Mars robot experimental station. Then hang around
for awhile and see if you can figure out what problems they’re having with the
robot development program out there. Just don’t let anybody know that you’re
spying on them.
“But
when Rick Weston arrived on Jupiter, he soon found himself in a maze of hatred
and intrigue. Robots were going beserk on occasion─and sometimes taking human
lives! With the help of a friendly Martian scientist and a beautiful girl, it
didn’t take Weston long to figure out the problems with the robots weren’t just
mechanical.”
Review
Robot is a
sixty-five-page blast of science fiction fun and action, with deftly sketched
characters and zero lag in the smart, tightly written storyline. The betrayals
and mini- twists are by-the-numbers but that did not ruin the read. It is
simply McGivern, an excellent writer, thrilling within a familiar genre
structure.
The 2013
“Deluxe Paperback Edition” I read was by Armchair Fiction as a
two-novellas-in-one-paperbook work. Its companion novella is J. Hunter Holly’s
1963 The Running Man.
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