Books : Isaac Asimov's Odyssey: Robot City: Book1 (Isaac Asimov's Robot City, Book 1)
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by: Michael P. Kube-Mcdowell
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780743479240
ISBN: 0743479246
Label: I Books
Manufacturer: I Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 211
Publication Date: June 25, 2004
Publisher: I Books
Sales Rank: 1213895
Studio: I Books
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A man without memory, stranded on an icy asteroid. His only chance for survival is locked within a band of mining robots who are dutifully searching the surface for a mysterious object known as the Key to Perihelion.
His name is Derec. His journey will take him to a city different from any he has ever known. A fantastic metropolis beyond his dreams: Robot City.
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Rating:  - Starts wooden, but eventually hooked me in
"Odyssey" is Book #1 in the "Isaac Asimov's Robot City" series. Written in the 1980's, this was apparently the first novel to take place in Asimov's robot universe that was not written by Asimov himself.
I read Asimov's robot novels many years ago, and remember enjoying them very much. When "Odyssey" first began, I found myself thinking, "Uh oh." The premise was interesting enough, if a bit standard (the amnesiac plot has been done to death). But the pacing was very stilted, and ... Read More
Rating:  - An Incredible Science Fiction Story
Marooned on a frozen asteroid, Derec suffers amnesia, having no recall of who he is or where he is from. He stumbles upon a community of mining robots sifting through the asteroid as if searching for something. The asteroid is attacked by raider ships and destroyed, but not before Derec discovered what the robots were looking for. He escapes the asteroid with the artifact only to be captured by the raiders and ends up working as a mechanic and has to build a robot for the ship's leader. While ... Read More
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