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    Kieran and the Robots
    Kieran and the Robots
    Kieran and the Robots
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    Kieran and the Robots

    By Alan Wallach

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    Kieran and Rajilad are visited by massive 7 foot robots, Marty and Willie, from another universe. This universe is completely populated by robots because humans have become extinct. After joining Kieran and his colleagues on a trip to Rikki's past to see a UFO, and after saving Bal's life on the trip, Marty and Willie decide to visit their own past to find out why humans have disappeared. Their discoveries are surprising.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlan Wallach
    Release dateDec 16, 2014
    ISBN9780990672333
    Kieran and the Robots
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    Alan Wallach

    Alan Wallach was born and raised in Brooklyn. He has a degree in chemistry. After a tour in the US Air Force as a meteorologist, he went to work for IBM as a programmer and back to school for graduate study in mathematics. He has been associated with computers for most of his business life in one form or another from programming to consulting, training, sales, management and ownership. He has been a technical writer, and for almost 15 years wrote a computer column for the Sunday Berkshire Eagle in Pittsfield MA. In the early nineties, his Plain English Guide to Your PC was published and and right before the milennium, The Year 2000 Hoax was released, a book which debunked the doomsayers prediction of an economic collapse because of the Y2K bug.Alan is an accomplished classical pianist and considers music his first love. He is a basketball nut and still plays often in the early morning hours with a similar minded group of nuts.He and his wife have recently moved from the Berkshires in Massachusetts to New Jersey, in full view of the Manhattan skyline. He is now a full time writer working on a new novel and continuing his Kieran series of books for young readers.

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      Kieran and the Robots - Alan Wallach

      THE KIERAN BOOK SERIES

      BOOK 4 - KIERAN AND THE ROBOTS

      By Alan Wallach

      Published by Interlaken Publishing Co.

      Distributed by Smashwords

      This book is available in a print edition at most online retailers.

      Copyright 2014 by Alan Wallach

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favorite ebook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author

      The Laws of Robotics:

      1: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm;

      2: A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law;

      3: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law;

      The Zeroth Law: A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm."

      ― Isaac Asimov (I, Robot)

      Table of Contents

      Chapter I Working on the time warp

      Chapter II The robot comes

      Chapter III Marty and Willie

      Chapter IV Marty, the tourist

      Chapter V Rikki's idea

      Chapter VI Rikki's trip

      Chapter VII Marty wants adventure

      Chapter VIII Bal visits

      Chapter IX Getting ready

      Chapter X Into the Vigandond past

      Chapter XI The abduction of Bal

      Chapter XII The trip back

      Chapter XIII Marty proposes a trip

      Chapter XIV Vimar pressures Rajilad to find Jelek

      Chapter XV Marty and Willie go back

      Chapter XVI Jelek is found and goes crazy

      Chapter XVII Jelek is fired

      Chapter XVIII Marty discusses his past

      Chapter XIX Marty and Willie return to the past

      Chapter XX Dr. Valarett and the robots

      Chapter XXI Dr. Valarett revisited

      Chapter XXII The message on the monument

      Epilogue - Sending Dr. Valarett home

      About the Author

      Other Books by the Author

      Chapter I

      Kieran was in the workshop listening to the disc recording of Fremod Aguntint reciting words in Vigandondic, the language from the country in the Aguntint universe. He was working on a written Vigandondic to English dictionary that his father requested, so he didn't hear Rajilad enter the workshop. Rajilad was a sort of refugee from a country in her universe, Pimglammam. She was living with the Cummerfords and working in Professor Cummerford's workshop - laboratory. She had escaped from Pimglammam, getting the best of Cran Jelek when he tried to take her back by force.

      How is it coming, Kieran? she asked him. He didn't hear her because he had headphones on, so she repeated the request, this time very loud.

      Kieran took off the headphones and turned to her. Pretty good, but it's hard work. I don't know how long it's going to take. The problem is that as I work and we communicate more and more with the Aguntints, the number of words in the dictionary increases. And the more words we learn, the faster the vocabulary increases.

      Rajilad didn't smile. She rarely does. Maybe we can use the language translator in some way to keep pace with the dictionary. Keep in mind that when you finish that, if you ever do, we should also have one from my language into English as well. Kieran frowned. We definitely have to find a way to streamline this. We're looking at creating an Oxford dictionary for three languages in a fraction of the time it took to do it for English alone.

      I can probably take some time from my time warp project to help you. It's coming along, but I have to back off sometimes to let things gel in my mind and give me a fresh approach. What are you doing this weekend? Let's see if we can figure a way to let the computer help us.

      Except for meeting up with Rikki and Bal in Vigandond to go to one of their movies on Saturday night, I'm not busy at all.

      OK, let's work on it Saturday. And if it's raining, we can spend more time because you won't play basketball.

      Kieran smiled. You really know me, don't you?

      That's not so hard. I've been living and working with you for almost a year now. So your routine is not so complicated.

      What are you working on now? The time warp seems to be calibrated and stable. We should be planning some trips, shouldn't we?

      She agreed with him, but as they all knew from experience, careful planning was essential. These trips into the past were fraught with danger. And everyone was busy with their everyday lives, so time for planning was limited and time for the actual trip even scarcer.

      In the meantime, she explained that she was trying to figure a way to relocate what was on the other side of the time warp window. Right now, a visit to the past was the past as it is right here. She wanted to visit the past from her universe across the Dardillar, the name in her universe for the Atlantic Ocean. She knew that Professor Cummerford would love to visit Paris in the 1700's. Sarah Cummerford wanted to visit Vienna in 1800 to go to one of Beethoven's concerts and maybe even meet him.

      It was exciting for Rajilad that she could work on these things without the interference of General Jelek. But she was continually plagued by the knowledge she had sent him back in time and left him there. And if she forgot, she was constantly reminded of it by Vimar, her friend and former supervisor. She knew exactly where in the past she had left him but never let on that she knew. She was having misgivings about it because it was not in her nature to do something like that. She really didn't know what to do about it. It was done in self-defense because he refused to leave her alone, and continually tried to take her back to Pimglammam by force. She had outsmarted his last attempt with a quick reaction, and got him to mistakenly follow her through the time warp. He followed her into the distant past instead of the window back to his own universe. She left him there, closed the time warp and pushed it out of her mind. She didn't want to leave him there, but he left her no choice. If she brought him back, she was constantly in danger.

      As she was studying her notes, she saw Kieran put the headphones back on and go back to work on his dictionary. She waved as if to say goodbye and went back to her work.

      Chapter II

      Saturday afternoon, when Kieran and Rajilad got together as they had planned, trying to use the translator to create the written dictionary, something caught Kieran's eye. He noticed scratches on the floor that were never there before, as if someone was moving furniture in the workshop, but there was no furniture to move in the workshop.

      Hey Raj, what do you think that is? He pointed to the scratches.

      Rajilad looked at them and frowned. She stooped down to look more carefully and ran her fingers over them. It looks like something heavy definitely made the scratches in the concrete floor. But I can't imagine what it could be.

      Suddenly, a window appeared on the left side of the wall. It had never been there before. Rajilad and Kieran were puzzled and looked at each other. What's going on? Kieran asked Rajilad.

      I don't know. But I can tell you this. If it is a wormhole, it's not coming from either the Aguntints or the Pimglammam universe. They stood there watching it. Nothing was happening. Then suddenly, a huge metal thing that looked like a robot stepped through the window. Almost seven feet tall, it was humanoid in that it was walking. It had hands, but one of them was some kind of tool, like a drill. On the head there were three eyes in a triangle. It had what looked like a mouth but no nose. The mouth looked more like a speaker. As it stood there, two of its eyes were looking at them. The third eye, in the middle of what we would consider his forehead, looked around. Kieran looked down at its feet to see if it made the scratches in the

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