"Into the Sunset"

Title"Into the Sunset"
Year for Search1986
AuthorsPoyer, D[avid] C[harles](b. 1949)
Tertiary AuthorsPoyer, D. C.
Secondary TitleAnalog Science Fiction
Volume / Edition108/7
Pagination94-109
Date PublishedJuly 1986
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

The story is set on the moon, where scientists are working on a project that would allow infantry robots to easily discriminate between enemy robots and noncombatants. The extremist government on Earth wants it revised so that it will determine who agrees with government or not.

Additional Publishers

Rpt. in Imperial Stars. Volume 2. Republic and Empire. Ed. Jerry [Eugene] Pournelle (New York: Baen Books, 1987), 323-345, with a politically oriented Editor’s Introduction on 322-323.

Illustration

Illus. Gary Freeman

Holding Institutions

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Author Note

The author (b. 1949), who is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and retired from the Navy with the rank of Captain, is best-known for his many novels of the sea.

Full Text

1986 Poyer, D[avid] C[harles] (b. 1949). “Into the Sunset.” Illus. Gary Freeman. Analog Science Fiction 106.7 (July 1986): 94-109. Rpt. in Imperial Stars. Volume 2. Republic and Empire. Ed. Jerry [Eugene] Pournelle (New York: Baen Books, 1987), 323-345, with a politically oriented Editor’s Introduction on 322-323.

The story is set on the moon, where scientists are working on a project that would allow infantry robots to easily discriminate between enemy robots and noncombatants. The extremist government on Earth wants it revised so that it will determine who agrees with government or not. The author, who is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and retired from the Navy with the rank of Captain, is best-known for his many novels of the sea.