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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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Asimov’s Laws of Robotics from I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
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Source ISBN: 9780008301361
Ebook Edition © May 2018 ISBN: 9780008301347
Version: 2019-10-21
I’ve a suggestion to keep you all occupied.
Learn to swim.
Learn to swim.
Learn to swim.
—Maynard James Keenan
Contents
Copyright
Epigraph
Map
Part 1. A Coin-Operated Boy
Part 2. The Terrible Dogfish
Part 3. Those Final Hours
Part 4. A Spire of Ghosts and Glass