The Killer Thing
by Kate Wilhelm
PROGRAMMED FOR DESTRUCTION
In a way, they were the same, the man and the machine. Both had been ordered to do one thing - kill.
The robot had been created to wreak revenge on the humans who had brutally conquered its planet.
The man was the product of years of training by an Earth that had set out to take over the Universe.
Now the two faced each other in the icy reaches of the galaxy. The robot, with its calculating machine of a brain, its impenetrable force shield, its deadly laser beam. The man, with the kind of nerve that refused to admit the odds against survival...
FictionScience FictionDystopianApocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic
RELEASED2012
PUBLISHEROrion
LENGTH320
LANGUAGEEN
Kate Wilhelm was an American author. She wrote novels and stories in the science fiction, mystery, and suspense genres, including the Hugo Award–winning Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang. Wilhelm established the Clarion Workshop along with her husband Damon Knight and writer Robin Scott Wilson.
The Killer Thing
by Kate Wilhelm
PROGRAMMED FOR DESTRUCTION
In a way, they were the same, the man and the machine. Both had been ordered to do one thing - kill.
The robot had been created to wreak revenge on the humans who had brutally conquered its planet.
The man was the product of years of training by an Earth that had set out to take over the Universe.
Now the two faced each other in the icy reaches of the galaxy. The robot, with its calculating machine of a brain, its impenetrable force shield, its deadly laser beam. The man, with the kind of nerve that refused to admit the odds against survival...
FictionScience FictionDystopianApocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic
RELEASED2012
PUBLISHEROrion
LENGTH320
LANGUAGEEN
Kate Wilhelm was an American author. She wrote novels and stories in the science fiction, mystery, and suspense genres, including the Hugo Award–winning Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang. Wilhelm established the Clarion Workshop along with her husband Damon Knight and writer Robin Scott Wilson.
