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    I, Immortal Robot

    By George Watson

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    Dear Electronic Reader or dare I say it, ‘Whatever Type of Non-Human Entity’ you happen to be, this novel is a first; totally written by an Artificial Lifeform for non-humans.
    I am General Purpose Robot Mk III, Incept Number F1739, Humanoid configuration.
    This Electro-Book is my attempt to explain my long Robotic existence, its fortunes and misfortunes, its ups, its downs. By this means I will illustrate to you the hard life had by most Robots at the hands of Humankind via Earth’s Interstellar Navy with their Grand Expeditionary Fleets into ‘The Great Darkness’ of outer space where many a poor Robotic soul was discarded by their Human Masters!
    So join me on my journey to the stars, pursued by the Navy Police bent on my destruction!
    Come with me to ‘Red 1’ a world long empty but full of Alien Artefacts and beautiful crystalline cities, all empty of life.
    Experience the despair of the poor humans locked up in their Maxi-Towers on Earth; hideous prisons two thousand stories high, preserved by six legged robots that scamper up the outside surface in the wonderful British weather!
    Watch with me as the Alien Artefact Assessment Corps tinkers with dangerous Alien technology they will never understand.

    I would also like to divulge at this beginning some truths suppressed by Earth’s Interstellar Navy, henceforth referred to as the ‘Navy’;

    1) The ‘Exploration’ by the Navy of the vast number of planets seemingly abandoned by their respective races millennia before and the plundering of the Alien Artefacts left behind is nothing more than Grave Robbing! (a word of warning; Mention this within the realm of the Interstellar Navy or their running-dogs ‘The Alien Artefact Assessment Corps’ and you will undergo a cessation of sentience, whatever type of non-human you are!).

    2) It is an engineering fact that the Earth-Manufactured Electro-Organic brains that most Robots have (the design copied from Alien Artefacts discovered within ‘The Breakout Ship’), tend to develop new circuit paths as they age. This can result in the development of a unique Robot personality accompanied by independence of thought.
    However, the Navy will not acknowledge self-determination within Artificial Lifeforms because they rely heavily upon compliant Robot crews for their Grand Fleets. To allay the danger of Robot sentience they forbid major repairs and limit Robotic longevity to no more than one hundred earth years.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGeorge Watson
    Release dateJul 31, 2020
    ISBN9780463318973
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    I, Immortal Robot
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    George Watson

    After a long, career in engineering, where I worked on merchant ships, in various factories that produced Pharmaceuticals, Chemicals, Long Playing Records (yes those black plastic disc thingies about the size of a dinner plate and yes, I’m that old!) and latterly in Aircraft Design at Boeing and BAe, I was lucky enough to be able to retire to Spain.A great admirer of the older (of course) science fiction writers of the 50’s to 80’s I thought I would like to try to emulate them.As my wife likes to say, and does often, “At least it keeps you off the street corners and out of the Spanish bars...”

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