Caliban

In a universe protected by the thee laws of robotics, human are safe.

The first law states,

A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

When an experiment with a new type of brain goes awry, the unthinkable happens. Caliban is created…

A robot without guilt or conscience, a robot with no knowledge of or compassion for humanity…A robot without the three laws.

Caliban is a searing examination of Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics, a challenged welcomed and sanctioned by Isaac Asimov, the late beloved genius of science fiction, and written with his cooperation by writer Roger MacBride Allen, author of The Modular Man and The Ring of Charon.

Edited by Isaac Asimov.

Roger MacBride Allen was born in 1957 in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He has published several novels, including The Ring of Charon, which prompted responses such as ‘Ideas explosive enough to be gauged in the megatonnage range . . . A knockout of a book . . . One of the most inventive and entertaining writers of this decade’ (Locus). He lives in Washington DC and is a full time writer.

Nominations: Philip K. Dick Award, Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, Locus Award for Best First Novel