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Written by Isaac Asimov
A short story in the Robot Stories Of Isaac Asov? series
Cover Notes
As humanity emerges from its cradle on Earth and begins to explore the reaches of the Solar System, they settle on Ganymede. A civilisation is discovered on Jupiter that turns out to be incredibly hostile. If they have discovered the secret of force-fields, they will be able to send space ships from the planet and start war with humanity. To discover whether or not they have, the humans send three robots to Jupiter on a reconnaisance mission. The robots turn out to be indestructible by the Jovians and, assuming them to be representative of humans, they surrender before the war has started.
Even Asimov himself admits that this isn't a robot story in the sense of U.S. Robots or Three Laws, but made its way into this anthology because it has robots in it anyway. It is actually a sequel to a non-robot story where the humans discovered the Jovian race.
Publication History
This story is contained in:
- Super Science Stories magazine edited by Frederik Pohl - published August, 1942 by Popular Publications
- The Rest Of The Robots by Isaac Asimov - published 1964 by Doubleday
Categories: Authors Isaac Asimov ! Series Robot Stories Of Isaac Asov
