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    B-12's Moon Glow
    B-12's Moon Glow
    B-12's Moon Glow
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    B-12's Moon Glow

    By Charles Stearns

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    Among the metal-persons of Phobos, robot B-12 held a special niche. He might not have been stronger, larger, faster than some … but he could be devious … and more important, he was that junkyard planetoid’s only moonshiner.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJovian Press
    Release dateJan 6, 2017
    ISBN9781537815640
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      B-12's Moon Glow - Charles Stearns

      B-12′S MOON GLOW

      ..................

      Charles Stearns

      JOVIAN PRESS

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      All rights reserved. Aside from brief quotations for media coverage and reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced or distributed in any form without the author’s permission. Thank you for supporting authors and a diverse, creative culture by purchasing this book and complying with copyright laws.

      Copyright © 2017 by Charles Stearns

      Interior design by Pronoun

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      B-12’s MOON GLOW

      B-12’S MOON GLOW

      ..................

      I AM B-12, A METAL person. If you read Day and the other progressive journals you will know that in some quarters of the galaxy there is considerable prejudice directed against us. It is ever so with minority races, and I do not complain. I merely make this statement so that you will understand about the alarm clock.

      An alarm clock is a simple mechanism used by the Builders to shock themselves into consciousness after the periodic comas to which they are subject. It is obsolescent, but still used in such out of the way places as Phobos.

      My own contact with one of these devices came about in the following manner:

      I had come into Argon City under cover of darkness, which is the only sensible thing to do, in my profession, and I was stealing through the back alleyways as silently as my rusty joints would allow.

      I was less than three blocks from Benny’s Place, and still undetected, when I passed the window. It was a large, cheerful oblong of light, so quite naturally I stopped to investigate, being slightly phototropic, by virtue of the selenium grids in my rectifier cells. I went over

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