Robot Visions
Isaac Asimov - Author
ISBN 9780451450647 | 496 pages | 05 Mar 1991 | Roc | 4.29 x 6.77in | 18 - AND UP
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From the writer whose name is synonymous with the science of robotics comes five decades of robot visions-36 landmark stories and essays, plus three rare tales-gathered together in one volume
Introduction: The Robot Chronicles
Stories Robot Visions Too Bad! Robbie Reason Liar! Runaround Evidence Little Lost Robot The Evitable Conflict Feminine Intuition The Bicentennial Man Someday Think! Segregationist Mirror Image Lenny Galley Slave Christmas Without Rodney
Essays Robots I Have Known The New Teachers Whatever You Wish The Friends We Make Our Intelligent Tools The Laws of Robotics Future Fantastic The Machine and the Robot The New Profession The Robot as Enemy? Intelligences Together My Robots The Laws of Humanics Cybernetic Organism The Sense of Humor Robots in Combination "This collection offers 18 stories about robots as well as brief essays in which Asimov comments on robots in fiction, the Frankenstein complex, his famous Three Laws and the development of actual robots. ``The earliest tales here, written from 1940 to 1960, remain among the most-loved in the field," —Publishers Weekly "Classic stories with new material, both fiction and fact, that puts the whole theme together in a larger context." —Poul Andersen |
