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Emdee was the colony doctor, and he was also a robot. To be a doctor he had to know more than the average human-and knowledge is power! Into his metal mind crept a plan... and every man on Mars trembled. What fate confronted them, and how could they avoid it? The answer was simple-there was no way-but death!
I NEVER did like the calender," said Berini unemotionally, looking over the frozen tundra. In six months or so, as if months had any meaning on Mars, the sun would swing northward enough to melt it into mush. Only during the day, though; nights it would freeze again. "Tomorrow will be the Fourth," he added.