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Creative Story Deadlock"Bzzz Bzzz" The alarm went off, and Susan Calvin rolled over. It was 630in the morning, and RoboTimer had done its ancestry admirably, waking her up to thesecond of the time that it had been factory-programmed. Unfortunately, it hadntbeen set to the correct date, and when it announced "Saturday, December 14thGood morning" in a load cheery tone, she groaned come out load with the realizationthat it was Saturday, and after that affair with the hyperdrive motor, shewanted to sleep in, since it she had just come back to earth. "I hate thisstupid robot" she let out out loud, then suddenly closed her mouth. For SusanCalvin had just remembered that her pact with the satans, as she thought of them,known to the robotics world as the team of Powell and Donovan. She stretched,rolled out of bed, and went downstairs, negligee a robe around her as she went,to get some coffee. "Well, since Im already up, I might as well take a look atthe rest of those Rasssjemani-Quazaric-Smith Equations and see why they werecausing all those robots to go psycho," she thought. "Good thing that U.S.Robots and Mechanical Men hushed up that little incident, Id be out of a job ifthe whole world, the xenophobic and primally-fearful lot of them, knew aboutthat" As she got out and buttered her toast, she mulled the day ahead of her inher mind. Weekends were never truly weekends for Susan Calvin, as she was haleto work for most of the weekend, with her only respite being Sunday, which shewas allowed to come in an hour late for. However, she usually found herselfworking late into the night on Sundays, out of an artificially induced guiltthat she knew was not real, but could do nothing to correct. After being drivento work (working for the company that produced every MechTaxi in existence didhave some perks after all), greeting the doorman, and going up to her office,Susan Calvin was ready to look at those equations She only needed a small compass point of time to warm up, and the wakeup-breakfast-come to work routinesufficed. Almost as soon as she had sat down to work, the Founder of U.S. Robotscame in and said, "I need to talk with you, Calvin. Theres been more reportsin across the nation of those psycho robots, all of them with positronic brainsbuilt using the Rasssjemani-Quazaric-Smith Equations. We will be ruined, anddrawn and quartered by the masses if we dont start hushing this up again and