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Twilight’s End: Jerry Oltion
$10.00Star Trek Original Series No. 77. Unlike most planets, Rimillia does not spin upon its axis, so the day and night sides are subjected to perpetual extremes of heat and col. Habitation has only been possible on a narrow strip of the planet's surface. Until now...Using gigantic impulse engines of unimaginable power, the alien Dumada intend to start Rimillia rotating, making the entire world fit for colonisation. Yet there are those who fear the enormous stresses involved may instead tear the planet apart. Assigned to assist the Dumada, Captain Kirk must rescue a kidnapped scientist vital to the rotation project. But once the giant engines are activated, can Scotty save Rimillia and the Enterprise from total destruction? -
The late great Asimov challenged a talented group of sci-fi writers with: What would happen if the robots of Asimov's universe were to meet alien races? Would the Three Laws of Robotics that protect both humans and robots still apply when dealing with a species that is neither? In this volume: Maverick: Derec Avery should be able to control the network of robotic cities, but the cities are not working as they should and they are becoming dangerous. Someone else is tampering with them - Dr. Janet Anastasi, Derec's mother. Unwittingly, her intereference is about to start a war between humans and aliens, and Derec must find a way to prevent destruction. Humanity: Derec's quest for identity has led him across the galaxy to slowly rebuild the pieces of his life: first, Ariel Burgess, the woman whose love he had to win three times; then his father, Dr. Avery, the mad genius whose experiment Derec has become. Now he has become caught up in an experiment that threatens to undermine the Laws of Robotics. He must deal with three robots that have no fixed shape, no clear sense of what is a human and what is not. They are his mother's creations - but do they spell doom - or salvation? Cover art by Paul Rivoche.
