The story “In Cosmic Obscurity” is included in the collection “Sensation on Mars.”

Brief summary of the work (opening the spoiler, you only have yourself to blame!) Robots from the story “In Cosmic Obscurity” by Vasily Berezhny ( In Cosmic Anonymity, 1975), piloting a ship heading to a distant star, while the crew was in suspended animation, decided to arrange a holiday for themselves - a carnival on the ship. They abandoned their posts and gave themselves up to the pleasures of relaxation and entertainment. This happened five hundred years after the launch, and the robot operator Sophie, the only one who did not succumb to the general bacchanalia, had to give the command to wake up the crew. And order was quickly restored after all the robots were subject to reprogramming.

© Vitaly Karatsupa, 2004-2009