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Here is a whole panorama of strange and thrilling tales about Earth in the years ahead when robots reach such an advanced stage that they threaten to rise up and control the world.
I, Robot
The classic chronicle-novel about a future civilization helped, and menaced, by complex servomechanisms —has been hailed as the outstanding science-fiction book of its kind.
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smear campaigns, supercomputers, computers, Frankenstein complex, hyperspace, heisenbugs, asteroids, Shahada, space stations, space-based solar power, cognitive dissonance, selenium, robots, morality, robotics, robopsychology, positronic brains, three laws of robotics, American Science fiction, Readers (Secondary), Readers, Fiction, Science fiction, human-robot relations, Thriller, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Science fiction, American, Short stories, American Short stories, Artificial intelligence, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, Fiction, science fiction, short stories, Roman, Fiction, science fiction, collections & anthologies, American literature, Robots in fiction, Children's fiction, High tech and hard science fictionPeople
Susan Calvin (Fictitious character), Alfred Lanning (Fictitious character), Robbie, Gloria, Mrs. Weston, Mr. Weston, Powell, Donovan, Robot SPD-13, Gilbert and Sullivan, QT-1, DV-5, Stephen Byerley, Francis Quinn, Peter Bogert, Gerald Black, RB-34, René Descartes, Gloria WestonPlaces
New York City, Museum of Science and Industry, Finmark Robot Corporation, Mercury, Hyper Base, EarthTimes
21st Century, 2015, 1982, 1998, 2052Showing 10 featured editions. View all 96 editions?
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"A Signet book."
All stories previously published in Super science stories and Astounding science fiction.
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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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