An edition of I, Robot (1950)

I, Robot

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An edition of I, Robot (1950)

I, Robot

1st Fawcett Crest printing (24)
  • 4.22 ·
  • 148 Ratings
  • 836 Want to read
  • 60 Currently reading
  • 239 Have read

Here is Isaac Asimov's famous science fiction classic I-ROBOT

WHAT DO YOU DO WITH A DRUNKEN ROBOT?

You may not believe it, but robots have problems too. Just like humans. In these mind-spinning tales, Isaac Asimov brings us an astonishing and delightful vision of a tomorrow filled with marvels and miracles—of computers in human form so incredibly real you cannot tell the man from the machine without a scorecard.

"To you, a robot is a robot. Gears and metal. Electricity and positrons. Mind and iron! Human-made! If necessary, human- destroyed. But you haven't worked with them, so you don't know them. They're a cleaner, better breed than we are." —Dr. Susan Calvin, 2057 A.D.
--back cover

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Publisher
Fawcett Crest
Language
English
Pages
192

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2015-05, J'ai Lu
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I, Robot
2008-05, Bantam Books
Paperback in English - printing (4)
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2004-06, Bantam Books
Hardcover in English - Bantam hardcover ed. (2)
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I, Robot
2004-06, FollettBound
library binding in English - printing (37)
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I, Robot
1996, HarperCollins Publishers
Mass Market Paperback in English - Paperback edition 1996 (14)
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I, Robot
1991-12, Spectra/Bantam Books
Mass Market Paperback in English - Bantam edition
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I, Robot
1983-12, Del Rey
Mass Market Paperback in English - 1st Ballantine Books ed.
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I, Robot
1977?, Fawcett Crest
Mass Market Paperback in English - 1st Fawcett Crest printing (24)
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I, Robot
1956-03, New American Library
Mass Market Paperback in English - 6th printing
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I, Robot
1950, Doubleday & Company, Inc.
hardcover in English - Book Club Edition

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New York

Edition Notes

Copyright Date
1970

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813.54

The Physical Object

Format
Mass Market Paperback
Pagination
192 p.
Number of pages
192

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24237067M
Internet Archive
irobot0asim
ISBN 10
0449239497
ISBN 13
9780449239490
OCLC/WorldCat
1035750450
Goodreads
55782134

Work Description

I, Robot is a fixup novel of science fiction short stories or essays by American writer Isaac Asimov. The stories originally appeared in the American magazines Super Science Stories and Astounding Science Fiction between 1940 and 1950 and were then compiled into a book for stand-alone publication by Gnome Press in 1950, in an initial edition of 5,000 copies. The stories are woven together by a framing narrative in which the fictional Dr. Susan Calvin tells each story to a reporter (who serves as the narrator) in the 21st century. Although the stories can be read separately, they share a theme of the interaction of humans, robots, and morality, and when combined they tell a larger story of Asimov's fictional history of robotics.


Contains:
"Introduction" (the initial portion of the framing story or linking text)
"Robbie" (1940, 1950)
"Runaround" (1942)
"Reason" (1941)
"Catch That Rabbit" (1944)
"Liar!" (1941)
"Little Lost Robot" (1947)
"Escape!" (1945)
"Evidence" (1946)
"The Evitable Conflict" (1950)



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Foundation / I, Robot
Great Science Fiction Stories

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