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Risk

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Risk	label	Risk
Risk	page	Risk
Risk	comment	First published in Astounding Science Fiction (May 1955 issue), by Isaac Asimov, and republished in the October 1955 issue of their UK branch. This Novelette is a Sequel to the events of "Little Lost Robot".Gerald Black, the etherics engineer responsible for causing the NS-2 model to "get lost" in the previous story, is watching the next stage of hyperspace testing. Hyper Base has developed an expensive prototype spaceship with a built-in hyperdrive, called Parsec, which is expected to travel out to Sirius and return.When the countdown ends, however, the ship doesn't leave and nobody knows why. Black is selected to board the ship and determine what went wrong and prevent the hyperdrive from activating before they lose their prototype hyperdrive ship."Risk" has been republished twice; The Rest of the Robots (1964) and The Complete Robot (1982).
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Risk / int_499499e6	type	Written-In Absence
Risk / int_499499e6	comment	Written-In Absence: Schloss had been out on sick leave during the events of "Little Lost Robot", which is why he was not present in that story.
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Risk / int_4cb90f31	type	Three Laws-Compliant
Risk / int_4cb90f31	comment	Three Laws-Compliant: While Dr Asimov's robots are important in this story, the main character tries to imagine what Dr Calvin's "Three Laws" might be as she is often compared to the robots that she represents. It demonstrates how he is stewing in his hatred of her.
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Risk / int_56c163a8	type	Subspace or Hyperspace
Risk / int_56c163a8	comment	Subspace or Hyperspace: Hyper Base continues its experiments from "Little Lost Robot", having advanced to sending small animals and now building ships that are capable of travelling through hyperspace. The only negative? The creatures return completely mindless and Hyper Base has no understanding of why.
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Risk / int_77738f2	type	Accidental Astronaut
Risk / int_77738f2	comment	Accidental Astronaut: Defied by Black. After he enters the Parsec and sees what went wrong, he smashes the ship's computers to make sure the thing won't launch with him (quite unwillingly) in it.
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Risk / int_782b8a66	type	Absurdly Dedicated Worker
Risk / int_782b8a66	comment	Absurdly Dedicated Worker: One of the U.S. Robots is tasked with piloting a prototype hyperspace drive, but when the drive doesn't engage, the robot is stuck in that position. One of the characters believes that even the First Law won't stop its current actions because it is in the middle of completing the order.
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Risk / int_8b3fe1cb	type	Flaw Exploitation
Risk / int_8b3fe1cb	comment	Flaw Exploitation: After Black has returned from the Parsec, Dr Calvin reveals that she had specifically chosen him because he hated robots, something that had been relevant in the previous story. She was counting on his hatred of being seen as inferior to robots to help him overcome his fear of being rendered a nearly-catatonic idiot as a result of the hyperdrive accidentally activating while he's aboard.
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Risk / int_9843be73	type	As You Know
Risk / int_9843be73	comment	As You Know: The reporter, Nigel Ronson, describes to Black three people that he already knows, in rather unflattering tones. General Kallner is a military idiot, Dr Calvin is so aloof that she could travel through the sun and come out frozen in ice, and Director Schloss is too egotistical to give a decent answer to his questions. It works to summarize the people if the audience hadn't read "Little Lost Robot".
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Risk / int_98a7ffba	type	Androids Are People, Too
Risk / int_98a7ffba	comment	Androids Are People, Too: Black is convinced that Dr Calvin believes the preserving robot "lives" is more important than preserving human lives. In reality, she did it because she knows he hates robots and her, and was hoping that his hatred would overcome his fear, making him better at analyzing the situation than a robot could. She explains this to him at the end of the story, a rare case of her demonstrating that robots are inferior to humans in some respect.
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Risk / int_a1c0cab7	type	New Tech Is Not Cheap
Risk / int_a1c0cab7	comment	New Tech Is Not Cheap: After the Parsec, an experimental hyperdrive ship, doesn't go into hyperspace like it is supposed to, the people in charge quickly grow worried, as the ship itself was very expensive to construct and losing it might mean the cancellation of the entire project for more profitable research.
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Risk / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
Risk / int_b1346878	comment	Fate Worse than Death: One of the problems with the experimental spacecraft is that any animal that goes through hyperspace loses all higher cognitive functions, sitting in their own waste and refusing to take any action, even eating. Gerald Black, who is chosen to risk this fate, is terrified of it.
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Risk / int_c83d6a05	type	Tinman Typist
Risk / int_c83d6a05	comment	Tinman Typist: It turns out that the reason why the ship didn't launch is because the robot pilot pulled too hard on the starter lever and bent it.
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Risk / int_d0f0a80d	type	One-Word Title
Risk / int_d0f0a80d	comment	One-Word Title
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Risk / int_df514fe9	type	Crew of One
Risk / int_df514fe9	comment	Crew of One: The Parsec, an experimental hyperdrive, is designed to respond to only one control, operated by a positronic robot.
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Risk / int_e2a41c3b	type	Literal-Minded
Risk / int_e2a41c3b	comment	Literal-Minded: A robot pilot is set to test a hyperspace drive and is given instructions to "Pull [the control] toward you firmly. Firmly!" until the drive engages. However, the drive doesn't engage, so the robot is stuck in that position and its human operators have to try to get it to stop but it just won't stop pulling because the drive hasn't engaged because the robot pulled back "firmly" with its full strength, damaging the control.
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Risk / int_f4061d83	type	Capital Letters Are Magic
Risk / int_f4061d83	comment	Capital Letters Are Magic: The asteroid orbiting Hyper Base is technically called H937, but everyone on Hyper Base says "it" instead, and eventually the impersonal pronoun achieved the dignity of capitalization.
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Risk / int_f8cddfb2	type	Laser Blade
Risk / int_f8cddfb2	comment	Laser Blade: Black's internal narration mentions a "force knife", implied to be a knife made from force fields, but used to more firmly establish the advanced technology of the setting.
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

Risk	hasFeature	Accidental Astronaut / int_1365725c
Risk	hasFeature	American Literature (N to S) / int_1365725c
Risk	hasFeature	Androids Are People, Too / int_1365725c
Risk	hasFeature	Capital Letters Are Magic / int_1365725c
Risk	hasFeature	FTL Test Blunder / int_1365725c
Risk	hasFeature	FTL Travel Sickness / int_1365725c
Risk	hasFeature	New Tech Is Not Cheap / int_1365725c
Risk	hasFeature	Novelette / int_1365725c
Risk	hasFeature	Pressure-Sensitive Interface / int_1365725c
Risk	hasFeature	Robot and A.I. Works / int_1365725c
Risk	hasFeature	Subspace or Hyperspace / int_1365725c
Risk	hasFeature	Three Laws-Compliant / int_1365725c
Risk	hasFeature	Tinman Typist / int_1365725c
Risk	hasFeature	Written-In Absence / int_1365725c

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