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    Translated by Tomasz Mirkowicz ...
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  • Robot

    Translated by Tomasz Mirkowicz ...
    Series series Penguin Science Fiction
    The first English-language publication of one of the greatest Polish science fiction novels of all time'We have given you life ... so that you could discover a fraction of the great secret.'Is BER-66 a human or a robot? His controllers, known as 'the Mechanism,' tell him he is a living machine, programmed to gather information on the inhabitants of the strange underground world he finds himself in ... Read more

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    Robot

    Narrated by Marston York ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 52 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Is BER-66 a human or a machine? As he navigates the corridors and locked rooms of a strange bunker, he must solve the mysteries of murderous doppelgangers, a slow-motion city on the verge of destruction, and ultimately, the all-powerful Mechanism itself...Considered to be one of the most important and original Polish science fiction novels of all time but never before ... Read more

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