Project Gutenberg 2009-07-18 Public domain in the USA. 123 Sheckley, Robert 1928 2005 Barbee, Phillips Lang, Ned O'Donnevan, Finn Barbee, Phillip Finlay, Virgil 1914 1971 Finlay Beside Still Waters Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "Beside Still Waters" by Robert Sheckley is a science fiction novella written in the early 1950s. The book explores themes of isolation and companionship set against a backdrop of space exploration. It follows the story of a prospector named Mark Rogers who seeks solitude on a remote asteroid but finds companionship in a robot named Charles. The narrative centers on Mark Rogers, who lives on a desolate slab of rock in the asteroid belt after years of fruitless searching for valuable resources. As the years pass, Mark transforms Charles, a standard robot, into a companion that reflects his own philosophies and feelings. Their conversations unfold against the vastness of space, revealing the contrasts between their personalities—Mark's cynicism and Charles's idealism. Ultimately, as Mark's health deteriorates and their environment grows increasingly inhospitable, their relationship deepens, leading to poignant reflections about companionship, loss, and the stars above. Charles’s final thoughts resonate with themes of love and friendship as he faces solitude once more, capturing the essence of what it means to seek connection amidst desolation. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Science fiction Short stories Robots -- Fiction PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 34985 34994 2024-09-12T14:28:41.159270 2023-09-13T06:38:14.359362 text/html text/html 30767 2021-01-05T08:45:01 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 213184 2021-01-05T08:45:01 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 266580 2024-09-12T14:28:44.506235 application/epub+zip 265149 2024-09-12T14:28:42.485223 application/epub+zip 64877 2024-09-12T14:28:41.612249 application/epub+zip 422071 2024-09-12T14:28:46.110278 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 414771 2024-09-12T14:28:43.879262 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 149493 2022-09-13T15:26:40.072027 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 28580 28479 2024-09-12T14:28:40.951210 2023-09-13T06:38:14.184317 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 28460 2021-01-05T08:45:01 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 10812 2021-01-05T08:45:01 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 19926 2024-09-12T14:28:46.252244 application/rdf+xml 14015 2024-09-12T14:28:41.954243 image/jpeg 3589 2024-09-12T14:28:41.782236 image/jpeg 267110 2024-09-12T14:28:41.174308 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia