Rendezvous on a Lost World // When the Dream Dies — A. Bertram Chandler

THE ROBOT ROAD TO FARAWAY

His was a dream few spacemen ever saw come true. Alan Kemp was an obsessed man -- driven by the realization of a dream into the black emptiness between the stars.

In a rebuilt, second-hand, obsolete ship, Kemp and his three comrades took off -- determined to set up a shuttle between the planets at the Rim of the galaxy.

But trouble -- in the form of two lost colonies, one inhabited by giant mechanical insects and the other ruled by the descendants of a murderous pirate -- threatened. Kemp's crew began to wonder: just how much will a man sacrifice to realize a dream?