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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description: Arlo is a robot specially programmed with strong enthusiasm for his job as a travel agent ... happily encouraging customers to visit the luxury hotels on Ganymede and Titan. When Arlo silently disappears one night, the chief of security suspects the robot's enthusiasm may have overridden the programming for responsibility.

eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Chrysalis 8, ed. Roy Torgeson, 1980
Fictionwise Release Date: November 2002

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Words: 1506
Reading time: 4-6 min.
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Arlo didn't look much like a man. (Not all robots do, you know.) The problem was that he didn't act all that much like a robot.

The fact of the matter is that one day, right in the middle of work, he decided to pack it in. Just got up, walked out the door, and kept on going. Somebody must have seen him; it's pretty hard to hide nine hundred pounds of moving parts. But evidently nobody knew it was Arlo. After all, he hadn't left his desk since the day they'd activated him twelve years ago.

So the Company got in touch with me, which is a euphemistic way of saying that they woke me in the middle of the night, gave me three minutes to get dressed, and rushed me to the office. I can't really say that I blame them: when you need a scapegoat, the Chief of Security is a pretty handy guy to have around.