Robots have long colonized many planets and live there independently and self-sufficiently. Races and nations of robots have emerged. Each has its own culture, its own myths, legends, and fairy tales.
Some have a myth that all robots were created by pale fellows. No one has ever seen them, but everyone agrees they are terrible in everything—and even their breathing (oh, the horror!) is oxygen that eats through iron.
Others have heard about the treasures of the Ice Kingdom, and the bravest electriders set off to get them.
And there are those who cannot beat the dragon they themselves make…
Contents
1. Three Electriderridiers
2. Uranium Ears
3. How Erg the Self-Arouser defeated a Pale Fellow
4. The Treasures of King Biskalyar
5. Two Monsters
6. White Death
7. How Micromil and Gigacyan began the dispersal of nebulae
8. A Tale of a Digital Machine that fought a dragon
9. The Advisors of King Hydrops
10. The Friend of Automatey
11. King Globares and the wise men
12. A Tale of King Murdase