Re: [GZG] [OFFICIAL] Question: was Re: [SG3]: What if?

["Samuel Penn" <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, February 10, 2008 21:32, Chris Ronnfeldt wrote:
>
> --- Samuel Penn <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Actually, reminds me of a story from "I, Robot",
>> where a robot
>> was meant to test fly a prototype FTL ship, and
>> something went
>> wrong. Humans were sent in to find out the problem,
>> because
>> Susan Calvin doesn't want to risk another robot.
>> (But then Calvin never really liked humans).
>
> Just to be pedantic, that wasn't a Susan Calvin story.
> The human was sent because a robot congressperson used
> his influence to force it (to buy votes from the humans).

Hmm, admittedly it's been a few years since I read it.
Since I'm not currently at home, a quick search shows that
it's probably "Risk", which does have Calvin in it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_%28Asimov%29

It does look like it was in "The Rest of the Robots"
rather than "I, Robot" however.

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