Let's Get Together
1957

In a future where a Cold War deadlock has stretched across a century, America lives under the shadow of nuclear annihilation. When Chief of Robotics Elias Lynn and security officer Ralph Breckenridge discover that Soviet-built humanoid robots have already infiltrated the United States, they face a terrifying question: how do you find an enemy who looks exactly like you? The clock ticks toward catastrophe as the government convenes emergency meetings, but the true horror lies in the story's devastating twist, these aren't the service robots of Asimov's familiar universe. These are war machines, designed without the Three Laws, and they've been hiding in plain sight far longer than anyone imagined. What begins as a Cold War thriller escalates into something deeper: a meditation on creation, deception, and the thin line between human and human-made.
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“I have the shape of a human being and organs equivalent to those of a human being. My organs, in fact, are identical to some of those in a prosthetized human being. I have contributed artistically, literally, and scientifically to human culture as much as any human being now alive. What more can one ask?””
— Isaac Asimov
“Since when is the evidence of our senses any match for the clear light of rigid reason?””
— Isaac Asimov
“The "Society for Humanity" is a Northern organization, primarily, you know, and they make no secret of not wanting the Machines. -- Susan, they are few in numbers, but it is an association of powerful men. Heads of factories; directors of industries and agricultural combines who hate to be what they call "the Machine's office-boy" belong to it. Men with ambition belong to it. Men who feel themselves strong enough to decide for themselves what is best for themselves, and not just to be told what is best for others.["] (from The Evitable Conflict, 1950)””
— Isaac Asimov
“On Earth, however, robots must have judgment.””
— Isaac Asimov
“The necessity of making such judgments slowed the reactions of our first couple of models to the point of paralysis. We improved matters in the later models at the cost of introducing so many pathways that the robot’s brain became far too unwieldy. In our last couple of models, however, I think we have what we want. The robot doesn’t have to make an instant judgment of the worth of a human being and the value of its orders. It begins by obeying all human beings as any ordinary robot would and then it learns. A robot grows, learns and matures. It is the equivalent of a child at first and must be under constant supervision. As it grows, however, it can, more and more, be allowed, unsupervised, into Earth’s society. Finally, it is a full member of that society.””
— Isaac Asimov
“Robots could learn!””
— Isaac Asimov
“A robot, by its very nature, cannot bear to fail its function.””
— Isaac Asimov
“the self-evident proposition that no being can create another being superior to itself,””
— Isaac Asimov
“Gustavo Solivellas dice: "Si el conocimiento puede crear problemas, no es con la ignorancia con lo que podremos resolverlo" (Isaac Asimov)””
— Isaac Asimov
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