Chrome Author:George Nader Chrome, sent to a luxurious desert hideaway to serve Vortex as his last task before graduation from the elite cadet corps, is to use his healing gift to cure the Warrior of a mysterious affliction. Isolated, Vortex and Chrome fight against their growing love, then succumb one desert night in one of the most explicit yet touching romantic love sc... more »enes of recent fiction. Their burgeoning affair is suddenly disrupted by a warning of disaster - "to love a robit is Death." But who is the robot? Thrust into a confused world of doubt and deception, Chrome examines his love to answer the question.
Seaparated form Vortex by the frightened, blustering officials of Earth, Chrome is besieged in a hospital ward - the subject of intensive medical research as Earth bids for supremacy amoung the trouble worlds of the Covenant. In an intergalactic power struggle Chrome discovers the terrible truth about Earth and its power-crazed rulers.« less