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The Runaway Robot
The Runaway Robot
Author: Lester Del Rey
A teenaged boy is ordered by his father to sell his robot. The robot is old and supposedly unreliable. The boy refuses to have his companion sold "down the river" to a scrap dealer. So they plan an escape from to Ganymede to Earth by stowing away and trickery. Along the way, the robot develops very human-like traits.
ISBN-13: 9780664323455
ISBN-10: 0664323456
Publication Date: 7/1960
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Pr
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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"We're returning to Earth, "Paul's father tell him. Paul is wildly excited, for all human beings on the planet Ganymede dream of going back to Earth some day. Then Paul finds out that he cannot take his robot Rex with him. Rex has been his constant companion for sixteen years. Leave him behind? Never!
Se begins a series of breathtaking adventures in space as Paul and his robot Rex attempt to outwit the forces that seek to separate them.


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