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    Robots of the World! Arise!
    Robots of the World! Arise!
    Robots of the World! Arise!
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    Robots of the World! Arise!

    By Mari Wolf

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    What would you do if your best robots—children of your own brain—walked up and said “We want union scale”?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStart Publishing LLC
    Release dateNov 23, 2016
    ISBN9781682995792
    Robots of the World! Arise!

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      Robots of the World! Arise! - Mari Wolf

      Robots of the World! Arise!

      by Mari Wolf

      Start Publishing LLC

      Copyright © 2015 by Start Publishing LLC

      All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever.

      First Start Publishing eBook edition July 2015

      Start Publishing is a registered trademark of Start Publishing LLC

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      ISBN 13: 978-1-68299-579-2

      Robots of the World! Arise!

      by Mari Wolf

      What would you do if your best robots—children of your own brain—walked up and said We want union scale?

      The telephone wouldn’t stop ringing. Over and over it buzzed into my sleep-fogged brain, and I couldn’t shut it out. Finally, in self-defense I woke up, my hand groping for the receiver.

      Hello. Who is it?

      It’s me, Don. Jack Anderson, over at the factory. Can you come down right away?

      His voice was breathless, as if he’d been running hard. What’s the matter now? Why, I wondered, couldn’t the plant get along one morning without me? Seven o’clock—what a time to get up. Especially when I hadn’t been to bed until four.

      We got grief, Jack moaned. None of the robots showed up, that’s what! Three hundred androids on special assembly this week—and not one of them here!

      By then I was awake, all right. With a government contract due on Saturday we needed a full shift. The Army wouldn’t wait for its uranium; it wouldn’t take excuses. But if something had happened to the androids . . . .

      Have you called Control yet?

      Yeah. But they don’t know what’s happened. They don’t know where the androids are. Nobody does. Three hundred Grade A, lead-shielded pile workers—missing!

      I’ll be right down.

      I hung up on Jack and looked around for my clothes. Funny, they weren’t laid out on the bed as usual. It wasn’t a bit like Rob O to

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