But until John Lux discovered how to use his dormant powers, he was a helpless pawn in a time war -- and both he and the planet were doomed!

Jasperodus, the only super-robot to have been granted consciousness, must decide whether to share his soul-possessing secrets with the other robots or to betray them to save mankind.

Their space-yacht, pursued by angry Adderkops thirsting for their blood, has run into serious engine trouble.

The novel, a majestic allegory of faith and reason, ends also as a black comedy of revenge, for this is Roger’s version—Roger Chillingworth’s side of the triangle described by Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter—made new for a disbelieving ...

"The Dueling Machine" by Ben Bova, Myron R. Lewis.

Jaybee Corbell awoke after more than 200 years as a corpsicle -- in someone else's body, and under sentence of instant annihilation if he made a wrong move while they were training him for a one-way mission to the stars.