In the middle of the twenty-first century, humanity has colonized Mars, whose development and “terraforming” could be completed in record time by the intensive use of labor robotics. Detective Ross Sylibus is transferred on the red planet after his fiancee was killed by a robot on Earth defective itself could only survive through the implantation of artificial prostheses and he retains a visceral hatred for sequel to robots … This resentment is quite common on Mars, the machines are particularly impaired because of high rate of unemployment that they cause. And to top it all, a robot finds himself involved in the very first case that faces Sylibus upon arrival at the airport Mars: Kelly Cannon Mac, country singer and star interplanetary, who was aboard the same flight He was murdered, but not by a robot because she is the robot …
Teaming up with Naomi Armitage, a beautiful young cop rebellious attitude, Sylibus is assigned the investigation becomes more complicated than other women, too robots are murdered in their turn …
Seir considered a major part in the world of Cyber Punk, Armitage went well so ugly the world of the future. well with our two heroes attaching to go get married and have children with them.
Difficult to talk about robots without mentioning Dr. Asimov, especially when the story is a police investigation and that the city serves as backdrop seems deeply rooted in the Martian soil, which does not go without mentioning the detective novel-FS “Good Doctor “, ie The Caves of Steel. What is most original is that there is the robot that is the victim instead of being the “accomplice” of the crime. Past these details, there’s no real comparison possible: the narrative is structured around the narrative concept of the “stick of the day” (the events all converge in a final battle which is the main quota of action Episode) and described a Martian society where robots used for everything in general and especially anything to the delight of their masters often disturbed.
