Isaac Asimov's Robot Mystery

Series · 3 books · 2000-2005

By Mark W. Tiedemann

Books in series

Mirage

2000

Agents Mia and Derec reveal a conspiracy after robot bodyguards fail to protect key leaders from an assassination attempt during a conference uniting the Spacers, Settlers, and Earth representatives.

Chimera

2001

Coren Lanra is the head of security for DyNan Manual Industries. A former Special Service agent, he's never cared for bureaucracy, piracy, or deception. Lanra's troubles begin when Nyom Looms, daughter of DyNan president Rega Looms, is murdered during an ill-fated mission to smuggle illegal immigrants from Earth to the colony Nova Levis. The question is, why? The only clue might be contained within the positronic brain of a robot that had accompanied the victim, but it has been deactivated, and Lanra is denied access to its memories. With the help of roboticist Derec Avery and Auroran ambassador Ariel Burgess, Lanra searches for the identity of a killer, before more lives are lost.

Aurora

2005

The Third Law of Robotics states that a robot must protect its own existence, as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws. After the diplomatic failures of the Spacer mission on Earth, Ambassador Ariel Burgess and roboticist Derec Avery are recalled to their home planet, Aurora. Their situation only worsens when they arrive, as they become suspects in another murder—one that could only have been committed by a non-human. On a world with a 20-to-1 robot-to-human population, is it possible a robot could have violated the Three Laws governing its behavior—and if so, why? Or is something far more sinister at work?

Author

Mark W. Tiedemann

Author · 9 books

Also credited as Mark Tiedemann and M. William Tiedemann. Mark W. Tiedemann has published ten novels—-three in the Asimov's Robot Universe series, /Mirage, Chimera /and/ Aurora/—-three in his own Secantis Sequence, /Compass Reach, Metal of Night, /and /Peace & Memory/—-as well as stand-alones /Realtime, Hour of the Wolf/ (a Terminator novel), and /Remains/, plus /Of Stars & Shadows/, one of the Yard Dog Doubledog series. As well, he has published over fifty short stories, all this between 1990 and 2005. /Compass Reach/ was shortlisted for the Philip K. Dick Award in 2002 and /Remains /was shortlisted for the James Tiptree Jr. Award in 2006. For five years he served as president of the Missouri Center for the Book (http://books.missouri.org) from which position he has recently stepped down. He is now concentrating on writing new novels, a few short stories, and stirring a little chaos in the blogosphere at DangerousIntersection.org and his own blog at MarkTiedemann.com Should anyone be interested, he is represented by Jen Udden and Stacia Decker of the Donald Maass Literary Agency. Oh, he still does a little photography and has started dabbling in art again after a long hiatus.