Book description
PROGRAMMED FOR DESTRUCTION
In a way, they were the same, the man and the machine. Both had been
ordered to do one thing - kill.
The robot had been created to wreak revenge on the humans who had
brutally conquered its planet.
The man was the product of years of training by an Earth that had set
out to take over the Universe.
Now the two faced each other in the icy reaches of the galaxy. The
robot, with its calculating machine of a brain, its impenetrable force
shield, its deadly laser beam. The man, with the kind of nerve that
refused to admit the odds against survival... Kate Wilhelm (1928 - )
Working name of the US writer Katie Gertrude Meridith Wilhelm Knight,
born in Ohio in 1928. She started publishing SF in 1956 with 'The
Pint-Sized Genie' for Fantastic
, and continued for some time with relatively straightforward genre
stories; it was not until the late 1960s that she began to release the
mature stories which have made her reputation as one of the 20th
century's finest SF writers. She was married to noted author and critic
Damon Knight and together they have had a profound influence beyond
their writing, through the Milford Science Fiction Writers' Conference
and its offshoot, in which she was directly involved, the Clarion
Science Fiction Writers' Workshop. She won the Hugo Award for Best Novel
with Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang,
and has won the Nebula Award three times. Kate Wilhelm lives in Oregon,
USA, and still hosts writing workshops.
