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The Steel Eye

Chet Gottfried (1984)

SubgenreSpace Opera
Age groupAdult 18+
Content ratingPG-13
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Swill a little grease and enter a world run by robots: corporate robots spanning multiple bodies; cop robots armed and dangerous; robot entertainers, drinkers, workers, villains, and the odd innocent victim. Into that hard-boiled world rolls the steel eye, a robot detective who faces treachery from friends and allies but keeps on tracking his elusive quarry. "Chet Gottfried's work is vivid, lucid and distinct." -James A. Cox, The Midwest Book Review "THE STEEL EYE is a beautifully crafted book which seeks to amuse and edify with its explorations of machine psychology and imperial competition in the industrial world. Sentence by sentence, the writing is beautiful, with its own singular quiet music." -Matthew Paris, Home Planet News, December 1989