About the book: 2007 / In Isaac Asimov's novel "Robots and the Empire" the action takes place two centuries after the events of "Robots of the Dawn". A wave of expansion from Earth to other planets are gaining strength and conflicts arise between the cosmonites (inhabitants of the Outer Worlds) and the settlers (descendants of earthlings). Gladia, a female spacer who shared a sincere love with Elijah Bailey, is still alive - after all, spacers live for three or four centuries. Her enemy is also alive - Doctor Amadiro, who, after the death of Doctor Hen Fastolf, again set out to take revenge on the Earth, which had already populated many planets…