The Runaway Robot

Rex, Paul Simpson's devoted robot, gives a first-person account of interplanetary adventures. When Paul's family is recalled to Earth, Rex has to be sold ... unless he can stow away on the spaceship Terrabella.

Lester del Rey was born Leonard Knapp in Saratoga, Minnesota, the son of poor sharecroppers of partly Spanish ancestry. His mother died shortly after his birth, and he managed to complete high school and two years at George Washington University before dropping out for economic reasons. He started publishing stories in pulp magazines in the late 1930s. He was closely associated Astounding Scienc …