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    Robot Visions

    Author Isaac Asimov
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    Mass Market Paperback
    $8.99 US
    Berkley / NAL | Ace
    On sale Mar 05, 1991 | 496 Pages | 9780451450647
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    From Isaac Asimov, the Hugo Award-winning Grand Master of Science Fiction, comes five decades of robot visions: thirty-four landmark stories and essays—including three rare tales—gathered together in one volume.

    Meet all of Asimov’s most famous creations including: Robbie, the very first robot that his imagination brought to life; Susan Calvin, the original robot psychologist; Stephen Byerley, the humanoid robot; and the famous human/robot detective team of Lije Bailey and R. Daneel Olivaw, who have appeared in such bestselling novels as The Robots of Dawn and Robots and Empire.

    Let the master himself guide you through the key moments in the fictional history of robot-human relations—from the most primitive computers and mobile machines to the first robot to become a man.

    “It’s good to have Isaac’s classic robot stories, and his commentary on them, in one handsome volume.”—Arthur C. Clarke
    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

    Isaac Asimov began his Foundation series at the age of twenty-one, not realizing that it would one day be considered a cornerstone of science fiction. During his legendary career, Asimov penned more than 470 books on subjects ranging from science to Shakespeare to history, though he was most loved for his award-winning science-fiction sagas, which include the Robot, Galactic Empire, and Foundation series. Named a Grand Master of Science Fiction by the Science Fiction Writers of America, Asimov entertained and educated readers of all ages for close to five decades. He died in 1992. View titles by Isaac Asimov
    Praise for Robot Visions

    “The earliest tales here, written from 1940 to 1960, remain among the most-loved in the field.”—Publishers Weekly

    “Robot Visions proves what we have suspected for decades: that Isaac Asimov’s mind is far more creative and faster-working than any positronic brain.”—Ben Bova

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    From Isaac Asimov, the Hugo Award-winning Grand Master of Science Fiction, comes five decades of robot visions: thirty-four landmark stories and essays—including three rare tales—gathered together in one volume.

    Meet all of Asimov’s most famous creations including: Robbie, the very first robot that his imagination brought to life; Susan Calvin, the original robot psychologist; Stephen Byerley, the humanoid robot; and the famous human/robot detective team of Lije Bailey and R. Daneel Olivaw, who have appeared in such bestselling novels as The Robots of Dawn and Robots and Empire.

    Let the master himself guide you through the key moments in the fictional history of robot-human relations—from the most primitive computers and mobile machines to the first robot to become a man.

    “It’s good to have Isaac’s classic robot stories, and his commentary on them, in one handsome volume.”—Arthur C. Clarke

    Table of Contents

    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

    Author

    Isaac Asimov began his Foundation series at the age of twenty-one, not realizing that it would one day be considered a cornerstone of science fiction. During his legendary career, Asimov penned more than 470 books on subjects ranging from science to Shakespeare to history, though he was most loved for his award-winning science-fiction sagas, which include the Robot, Galactic Empire, and Foundation series. Named a Grand Master of Science Fiction by the Science Fiction Writers of America, Asimov entertained and educated readers of all ages for close to five decades. He died in 1992. View titles by Isaac Asimov

    Praise

    Praise for Robot Visions

    “The earliest tales here, written from 1940 to 1960, remain among the most-loved in the field.”—Publishers Weekly

    “Robot Visions proves what we have suspected for decades: that Isaac Asimov’s mind is far more creative and faster-working than any positronic brain.”—Ben Bova

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