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| by Isaac Asimov
One of Asimov's Robot Stories set in the background of Asimov's Future History |
Cover Notes
Six robots are scheduled for delivery to Lunar Station 17, and when they take delivery of five robots, alarm bells start ringing. The renegade robot is eventually found performing its function - but on Earth instead of the Moon. It manages to blow up a mountain using a pair of torch batteries.
Mephistopheles strikes back in this tale of a latter-day pseudo Prometheus. The robot does little more to the person who takes it in than talk to him, but the locals get scared, telling tales of a "seven foot monster, maybe eight or nine" and Randolph Paynes' "poor bleeding, mangled corpse". They form a militia with a view to destroying it with sidearms and pitchforks, but change their mind when a few square miles of countryside disappear.
Publication History
- First published in Amazing Stories in February 1942?
- Included in the collection The Rest Of The Robots published by Doubleday in (1964?)
