One day the yacht isn’t at the surface, but the little robots keep at their job. They take turns returning to the surface to transmit their data and check in with scientists on a yacht. Because these robots work so far below the surface, beyond the range of radio, they were designed to work independently from human monitoring. The five hexapods were created to study deep ocean vents. It is one of five hexapods “sisters” (Thetic, Clio, Dione, Galatea) each with their own support robot that generates their power. I can’t help but think of the City stories by Clifford Simak.Įunice is a hexapod, a robot with six tentacle-like appendages. The story is about a little undersea robot named Eunice and its companion support robot named Wagner who travel thousands of miles under the ocean hoping to find their home. I hope Alec Nevala-Lee won’t be offended when I say, “At the Fall” is great old-fashion science fiction. This story is exactly the kind of science fiction I love. The above illustration by Eldar Zakirov is for “At the Fall” by Alec Nevala-Lee in the May-June issue of Analog.
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