Summary

Six months later, Powell and Donovan were on Solar Station 5. Their job was to train a new robot, the QT-1, to work the Beam Director on the station. This robot was new and proved to have a unique ability that others did not have, a self-awareness that caused conflict between it and the humans. This robot, called Cutie, believed it was created by the Beam Director, or Master as Cutie called it, despite Powell and Donovan’s attempts to prove otherwise. At first, Powell and Donovan tried to convince Cutie otherwise, but then Cutie took control of the other robots by convincing them of the same thing. In fact, the other robots came to call Cutie the Prophet. Then, just hours before a storm was to hit Earth, Cutie locked Powell and Donovan in a room for trying to interfere with the Master...