Everything I remember fondly from 's novels is in here, including a much more interesting Podkayne as well as Mars; but not the trivialization and flattening of enemies and the weak that weakened RAH's arguments fatally, and his stories frequently. (Not always; not in Podkayne....)
It's also a good noir detective or psychological story and leaves room for an entire philosophical sequel built around AI and disease evolution.
ISBN: 0765342227
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