title: Aurora: An Isaac Asimov Robot Mystery (Isaac Asimov's Robot Mystery)
author:  Mark  W. Tiedemann 
description: This month brings the third and final installment (after 2000's Mirage and 2001's Chimera) in Mark W. Tiedemann's Isaac Asimov's Robot Mysteries cycle, Aurora. With the failure of the Spacer mission on earth, ambassador Ariel Burgess and roboticist Derec Avery return to their home planet of Aurora, where they become suspects in a murder that seems to have been committed by a robotbut with the strict laws governing robotic behavior, the murder may point to a larger and more threatening plot, with ramifications for both personal memory and universal market forces. <br />Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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  THE NIGHT OF THE STORM By Dean R. Koontz HE WAS A ROBOT MORE THAN A
  
  
  HUNDRED YEARS OLD, BUILT BY OTHER robots in an automated factory that had been
  
  
  continuously engaged in the production of robots for many centuries. His
  
  
  name was Curanov, and as was the custom of his kind, he roamed the earth in
  
  
  search of interesting things to do. Curanov had climbed the highest mountains
  
  
  in the world, with the aid of special body attachments (spikes in his metal
  
  
  feet, tiny but strong hooks on the ends of his twelve fingers, an emergency
  
  
  grappling rope coiled inside his chest-area storage compartment and ready for
  
  
  a swift ejection if he should fall); his small, antigravity flight motors were
  
  
  removed to make the climb as dangerous and, therefore, as interesting as
  
  
  possible. Having submitted to heavy-duty component-sealing procedures, Curanov
  
  
  had once spent eig