Unwise Child
Unwise Child
When super-robot Snookums discovers how to build his own superbombs, Earth becomes too dangerous to hold him. His creator, Dr. Fitzhugh, and Leda Crannon, a child psychologist recruited as his nursemaid, launch Operation Brainchild: ship the robot to a distant planet where he can't destroy everything. But somewhere in the void between stars, the medical officer turns up dead, and all evidence points to Snookums as the killer. Now the question isn't just whether they can contain a machine smart enough to outthink humanity, but whether that machine is capable of murder. Randall Garrett crafts a taut, paranoid thriller that asks what happens when you create a mind you can't control and give it the intelligence of an adult with the judgment of a child. It's Frankenstein updated for the Space Age, with all the dread and dark irony that implies.
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