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ISAAC ASIMOV
ROBOTS AND
EMPIRE
Copyright © 1985
 
To Robyn and Michael
 
And to the years of happiness
They will continue to enjoy
As they walk the road of life together.
CONTENTS
PART I - AURORA
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2
1. THE DESCENDANT

2. THE ANCESTOR?
…
20
3. THE CRISIS

4. ANOTHER DESCENDANT

PART II - SOLARIA
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68
5. THE ABANDONED WORLD

6. THE CREW

7. THE OVERSEER

PART III - BALEYWORLD
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113
8. THE SETTLER WORLD

9. THE SPEECH

10. AFTER THE SPEECH

PART IV - AURORA
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164
11. THE OLD LEADER

12. THE PLAN AND THE DAUGHTER

13. THE TELEPATHIC ROBOT

14. THE DUEL
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213
PART V - EARTH
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232
15. THE HOLY WORLD

16. THE CITY

17. THE ASSASSIN

18. THE ZEROTH LAW

19. ALONE

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

 
PART I - AURORA 1. THE DESCENDANT 1.
 
Gladia felt the lawn lounge to make sure it wasn’t too damp and then sat down. A touch at the control adjusted it in such a way as to allow her to be semirecumbent and another activated the diamagnetic field and gave her, as it always did, the sensation of utter relaxation. And why not? She was, in actual fact, floating—a centimeter above the fabric.
It was a warm and pleasant night, the kind that found the planet Aurora at its best—fragrant and star-lit.
With a pang of sadness, she studied the numerous little sparks that dotted the sky with patterns, sparks that were all the brighter because she had ordered the lights of her establishment dimmed.
How was it, she wondered, that she had never learned the names of the stars and had never found out which were which in all the twenty-three decades of her life. One of them was the star about which her birth planet of Solaria orbited, the star which, during the first three decades of her life, she had thought of merely as “the sun.”
Gladia had once been called Gladia Solaria. That was when she had come to Aurora, twenty decades before two hundred Standard Galactic Years—and it was meant as a not very friendly way of marking her foreign birth. A month before had been the bicentennial anniversary of her arrival, something she had left unmarked because she did not particularly want to think of those days. Before that, on Solaria, she had been Gladia-Delmarre.
She stirred uneasily. She had almost forgotten that surname. Was it because it was so long ago? Or was it merely that she labored to forget?
All these years she had not regretted Solaria, never missed it.
And yet now?
Was it because she had now, quite suddenly, discovered herself to have survived ............

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