A Spaceship Named McGuire
A Spaceship Named McGuire
The basic trouble with McGuire was that, though "he" was a robot spaceship, nevertheless "he" had a definite weakness that a man might understand....
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not to work for me?"
I sighed. "Ravenhurst, right now, you're paying me to listen to you. Even if I don't take your job, I'm going to bill you for expenses and time to come all the way out here. So, as far as listening is concerned, I'm working for you now. If I don't like the job, I'll still forget everything I'm told. All right?"
He didn't like it, but he had no choice. "All right," he said. He polished off his glass of Madeira and refilled it. My own glass was still nearly full.
"Mr. Oak," he began, "I have two problems. One is minor, the other major. But I have attempted to blow the minor problem up out of proportion, so that all the people here at Raven's Rest think that it is the only problem. They think that I brought you out here for that reason alone.
"But all that is merely cover-up for the real problem."
"Which is?" I prompted.
He leaned forward again. Apparently, it was the only exercise he ever got. "You're aware that Viking Spacecraft is one of the corpo
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Garrett tends to be gimmicky. When the tale is good gimmicks don't hurt. This, in my opinion, is a fairly decent example of his work.
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Antiquated, extremely slow-paced, might be worth finishing if a rabid editor hacked it to a quarter the size.
03/31/2010
Thoroughly enjoyable. The detective aspect of this book is great!
09/10/2009
Fast-pace detective SF story centering around a robot AI, the usual snotty Garrett quality.
02/10/2008