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Robouniversum
Series · 12
books · 1987-1990

Books in series

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#2

Odyssey

1987

A man without memory, stranded on an icy asteroid. His only chance for survival is locked within a band of mining robots who are dutifully searching the surface for a mysterious object known as the Key to Perihelion. His name is Derec. His journey will take him to a city different from any he has ever known. A fantastic metropolis beyond his Robot City.
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#3

Suspicion

1987

An amnesiac man and a woman stranded in a city of robots, Derec and Katherine are the only logical suspects in a case of murder, and their identities and the name of the murderer are two of the mysteries to be solved. Reprint.
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#4

Cyborg

1988

A man without a memory, trapped in a city of robots gone wild. At his side, a mysterious woman who claims to know his identity but refuses to tell him. Together, they must find an insane cyborg stalking the streets of Robot City, a time bomb indistinguishable from the ordinary robots.
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#5

Prodigy

1988

Derec, a man without a memory, and Ariel, an enigmatic woman, move through Robot City searching for a dangerous cyborg who has gone insane and trying to root out the cause of a growing epidemic of "roboticide." Reprint.
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#6

Refuge

1988

A man without memory, in a city of robots gone wild. At his side, a mysterious woman whose own identity he has reconstructed, and whose memories of him may be true or false. The young man calls himself Derec. In the shattering climax to his quest he discovers the shocking secret of his true identity. Tormented by a nightmarish disease, Derec must face the genius Dr. Avery, and compel him to reveal the truth!
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#7

Perihelion

1988

Derec, an amnesia victim, learns the secret of his true identity and must face Dr. Avery, the deranged scientist who controls Robot City
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#8

Changeling

1989

Ace Books, 1989. Mass market paperback original; first in a series of six novels written by various authors and loosely connected to Isaac Asimov's "Robot" series.
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#9

Renegade

1989

Ariel follows her lover, Derec, to a planet of robots, where Derec is summoned to solve the mystery of the robots and aliens before a robot war erupts
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#10

Intruder

1990

The machinery of Robot City has gone mysteriously awry, and Derek, who has only recently returned, is determined to locate and eliminate the source of this distressing reprogramming
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#11

Alliance

1990

Derec has restored the original Robot City, but now three subversive robots of his mother's creation are urging a robot revolution that threatens to destroy his father's city
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#12

Maverick

1990

TERRIFIC PAPERBACK FROM 1990! FIRST ACE EDITION! AMAZING SHAPE FOR ITS AGE! MANY PHOTOS ATTACHED! NO EDGE WEAR! SPINE HAS ONE CREASE AND A SMALL DING AT THE BOTTOM BINDING IS GREAT, STILL TIGHT! ALL ORDERS SHIP SAME DAY WITH TRACKING NUMBERS! clstwll
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#13

Humanity

1990

Amnesiac Derec, on a galaxy-wide quest for his identity, stumbles upon Ariel Burgess and Dr. Avery, the same man who had obliterated his memory.

Authors

Mike McQuay
Mike McQuay
Author · 11 books

Michael Dennis McQuay was an American science fiction writer. He wrote for several different series. His work in that field includes Mathew Swain, Ramon and Morgan, The Executioner, and SuperBolan. The Book of Justice series he wrote as Jack Arnett. He also wrote the second of the Isaac Asimov's Robot City novels. His non-series novel Memories was nominated for a Philip K. Dick Award for 1987. McQuay taught creative writing at the University of Central Oklahoma for more than ten years, and died of a heart attack at the age of 45 in 1995.

Michael P. Kube-McDowell
Michael P. Kube-McDowell
Author · 13 books

Michael Paul Kube-McDowell's earliest science fiction stories began appearing in magazines such as Amazing, Asimov's, and Analog in 1979. His 1985 debut novel Emprise, the first volume of the Trigon Disunity future history, was nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award. The Quiet Pools, published as a Bantam hardcover in 1990, was a Hugo Award nominee. In addition to his solo novels, Kube-McDowell has collaborated with Sir Arthur C. Clarke (The Trigger) and Isaac Asimov (for the YA series Robot City. He also wrote the popular Black Fleet Crisis trilogy for the Star Wars Expanded Universe; all three volumes were New York Times bestsellers. A former middle school science teacher, Kube-McDowell has written about science and technology for a variety of periodicals, on topics ranging from gnotobiology to ultralights to spaceflight. He covered the launch of STS-4 for The South Bend Tribune. Kube-McDowell has attended more than 80 SF fan conventions, and met his wife Gwen (then an artist) in a con huckster room. They both were later members of the Pegasus Award-winning electric filk ensemble The Black Book Band, which performed at cons in the Midwest in the 1990s and released the live album First Contact (Dodeka Records).

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