Robots and Aliens 1, Changeling & Renegade

BEYOND ROBOT CITY AWAITS A BRAVE NEW GALAXY OF ROBOTS AND ALIENS

A man without a memory, tied by blood to a city of robots. At his side, a mysterious woman whose life and memory he saved, whose love he won for a second time.

His name is Derec. Now he must answer the call of a besieged city on an alien planet. His new challenge is to protect a fantastic metropolis of robots from wolf-like beings who stalk the perimeters and threaten its destruction!

Stephen W. Leigh is an American science fiction and fantasy writer, artist, and musician. He also works as a lecturer at Northern Kentucky University, teaching creative writing. He has published speculative fiction as Stephen Leigh, as S. L. Farrell, and once as Matthew Farrell.

Awards: Gaylactic Spectrum Award For Best Novel
Nominations: James Tiptree Jr. Award, Locus Award for Best First Novel, Locus Award for Best Short Story

Cordell Scotten's first story, "The Hijacking of the Pony Express" in Analog for February 1989, to his novel a few months later, a Tie to the Isaac Asimov's Robot City Shared World series, Isaac Asimov's Robot City: Robots and Aliens 2: Renegade (1989), which interestingly has three Robots whose task it is to determine why (and ultimately whether) only biological humans should evoke for them the three Laws of Robotics.