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Murder at the Galactic Writers' Society (Isaac's Universe)
Murder at the Galactic Writers' Society - Isaac's Universe Author:Janet Asimov THE DEATH OF AN ANDROID Though androids have been ruled to be sentient beings, with the same legal rights and responsibilities as humans and the five known alien races, there are many who still see them as little more than machines to be taken advantage of or discarded at will. Yet even the most prejudiced of humans ... more »or aliens will find it hard to tell that Arda is actually an android.
Sent by Smith's Employment Agency - officially to serve as a housekeeper for the best-selling writer Fortizk and unofficially to act as an undercover agent at the Galactic Writer's Socier banquet - Arda's assignment is to insure the safety of the humans and aliens attending the meeting in person. She is also to keep watch over the giant, irreplaceable gem which the Crotonite princess will be wearing.
But neither Arda, Fortizak, or the alien undercover agents at the banquet can foresee the strange sequence of events that will soon unfold - an attack and robbery of interstellar proportions, certain to undermine diplomatic relations between all Six Races. And, determined to solve the mystery and track down the culprits, Arda herself will become a prime target for murder, a fate from which even the combined efforts of Fortizak and Arda's alien allies may not be enough to save her...
Isaac's Universe is a fictional universe created by Isaac Asimov for other science fiction writers to use as a setting. Murder at the Galactic Writers' Society (Isaac's Universe), a novel penned by Janet Asimov, is in that collaborative universe, which eventually resulted in three short story collections and two novels. Robert Silverberg, who wrote the first Isaac's Universe story, added the idea that there is a seventh, mysterious race which has never been seen, but which has left behind artifacts spread throughout the galaxy
DAW No. 972
Volumes in this series:
Volume One: The Diplomacy Guild, an anthology
Volume Two: Phases in Chaos, an anthology
Volume Three: Unnatural Diplomacy, an anthology
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