Book: Paperback: Mass Market | 4.29 x 6.77in | 496 pages | ISBN 9780451450647 | 05 Mar 1991 | Roc | 18 - AND UP
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
