Norby Chronicles, The - Janet and Isaac Asimov

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JANET AND

ISAAC ASIMOV

ACE SCIENCE FICTION BOOKS

NEW YORK

The Norby Chronicles has been previously published as two titles, Norby the Mixed-Up Robot, and Norby’s

Other Secret.

All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious.

This Ace Science Fiction book contains the complete text of the two original hardcover editions. It has

been reset in a typeface designed for easy reading and was printed from new film.

THE NORBY CHRONICLES

An Ace Science Fiction Book/published by arrangement with Walker and Company

PRINTING HISTORY

Walker and Company editions published 1983, 1984

Ace Science Fiction edition/ April 1986

Cover art by Barclay Shaw

This book may not be reproduced in whole or in part by mimeograph or any other means, without

permission.

For information address: Walker and Company,

720 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10019

ISBN: 0-441-58633-3

Ace Science Fiction Books are published by

The Berkley Publishing Group,

200 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

To all who like our robot stories,

especially to

H. Read Evans and Robert E. Warnick

INTO TROUBLE AND OUT OF SCHOOL

“Trouble?” asked Jeff, a little shakily. “Why am I in trouble?” He was only fourteen, for all his height, and

it seemed to him that he had been asking that question for at least twelve of those years.

At first he had had to ask it of his parents, then his older brother, his teacher, and his computer

control. It hadn’t been too bad then, but having to ask it now of the head of the Space Command was

setting a new record. He didn’t exactly feel good about it.

Standing right next to Jeff was Agent Two Gidlow, who was no help at all. He was dressed entirely

in gray, and his angry red eyes glared at Jeff with contempt. Even his skin seemed sallow and off-color.

“You’re not only in trouble,” Gidlow said to Jeff. “You are trouble. “ He turned to Admiral Yobo

and cut the air horizontally with a sweep of his hand, as if that were Jeff’s neck it was passing through.

“Admiral, when a troublemaker muddles the computers....”

The admiral stayed calm. The Space Academy, which was under Space Command, had serious

problems to face and he was at the cutting edge of it all. The matter of a misbehaving cadet was not

something he had to twist his insides over.

Besides, he liked Jeff, who was the kind of tall and clumsy teenager he himself had once been

some years ago (though that was beside the point), and he found himself wearied now and then by Gidlow’s

strenuous disciplinarianism (though that was beside the point, too).

“See here, Gidlow,” said Admiral Yobo with a mild frown corrugating his wide, black forehead,

“why all the fuss? Remember that you are not part of the academy and have no authority here. If you’re

going to follow up every prank by hauling the cadet in question into my office to be grilled by Federation

Security Control, I’m going to have no time for anything else. All I’ve gotten so far is that he was trying to

sleep-learn, and there’s nothing in the rules against that.”

“If you do it right, there isn’t, Admiral,” said Gidlow. “Doing it wrong is another thing. He tied

into the main computer network--he says by accident--”

“Of course by accident, Agent Gidlow,” said Jeff earnestly. He pushed his curly brown hair out of

his eyes and stood as straight as he could so he’d be taller than the agent. “I mean why should I do it on

purpose?”

Gidlow smiled unpleasantly. His rather pointed teeth seemed as gray as his clothing and his sallow

skin. “If you prefer, Cadet, you did it out of stupidity, which is no better. Admiral, I bring this to you

because it is a security expulsion matter, and that’s for you to handle.”

“Security?”

“The way this cadet tied himself into the main computer network--by accident, he says--has

resulted in the kitchen computer getting the wrong set of data.”

“Data? What data?” Gidlow pursed his lips, “It would not be proper to discuss it before a cadet.”

“Don’t be a fool, Gidlow. If this is an expulsion matter, the young man has a right to know what

he’s done.”

“One thing is--and it may be enough all by itself--as a result of his idiotic link-up, everything is

being filtered through the kitchen computer. And this means, among other things, that all the recipes are

now in Martian Colony Swahili.”

The admiral, who had been playing with the buttons on his desk, began to chuckle as he stared

into his private viewer. “I see that one Jefferson Wells, age fourteen, failed to pass Martian Colony Swahili

last semester.”

“Yes, sir,” said Jeff, trying not to fidget. “I didn’t seem to get the hang of it. I’m doing makeup

now, sir, and I was trying to sleep-learn before the final exam next week. I’m terribly sorry about the

computer. I thought I was following the directions correctly, and I can’t think where I went wrong.”

“You can’t think, period,” said Gidlow. “What it amounts to, of course, Admiral, is that until the

recipes are reconverted into Terran Basic, or until the kitchen computer is reprogrammed to handle Martian

Swahili, there’s no way of running the kitchen. No one in Space Command is going to be able to eat. We

won’t even be able to have canned food released. I think,” he added glumly, “we might be able to get a

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