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    A Code For Sam
    A Code For Sam
    A Code For Sam
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    A Code For Sam

    By Lester Del Rey

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    Life can be hard on a mining planet, even for a robot named Sam. Hazardous work conditions. Hostile natives. Humans. Sam needs a code to live by...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWildside Press
    Release dateJun 12, 2022
    ISBN9781479479306
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    Lester Del Rey

    Lester del Rey (June 2, 1915 – May 10, 1993) was an American science fiction author and editor. He was the author of many books in the juvenile Winston Science Fiction series, and the editor at Del Rey Books, the fantasy and science fiction imprint of Ballantine Books, along with his fourth wife Judy-Lynn del Rey.

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      A Code For Sam - Lester Del Rey

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      COPYRIGHT INFORMATION

      A CODE FOR SAM, by Lester del Rey

      COPYRIGHT INFORMATION

      Copyright © 1966 by Lester del Rey.

      Originally published in Worlds of If, November 1966.

      Reprinted by permission of the author’s estate.

      Published by Wildside Press LLC.

      wildsidepress.com | bcmystery.com

      A CODE FOR SAM,

      by Lester del Rey

      I

      It was hours after the cave-in before the first sounds of rescue reached Sam. He switched his brain back to high amperage drain to come fully alert and began sending more current through his body heaters to prepare for emergence. From the nearness of the digging, there could be only a few feet of rubble left in the collapsed tunnel.

      Fifteen minutes later, he felt a pick strike near his outstretched hand. He grabbed it and pulled himself out of the dirt and gravel around him, then scrambled quickly forward to the entrance. Surprisingly, it was a human hand that reached out to help him to his feet.

      You okay, Sam? Barney Collins asked. The wizened old prospector’s face and oxygen mask were filthy with sweat and dust, but concern showed plainly in his eyes.

      Sam nodded. I’m fine, Barney What happened to Pete?

      The new robot? Barney shoved his mask aside and spat out tobacco juice, then shrugged. Something funny about him. Came into camp hours ago, but never said a word without you till we got worried and asked. Come on, we better get back in the digger before it gets colder.

      Sam glanced about, to see that the day was almost done. The high ceremonial mounds were casting long shadows as Tau Ceti sank in the east, and the thin air was already losing heat. In another hour, the temperature would be forty below zero. At its best, Anubis was a hostile world even to a robot like Sam, totally unlike the lovely second planet men called Isis. Here, except for the Gregg Archeological Expedition, there

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