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Name: Robot Visions

Author: Isaac Asimov
Year: 1990
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Genres/categories:
Science fiction, Short Stories, Classic, Fantasy

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ISBNs:
9780451450647
0451450647

From Isaac Asimov, the writer whose name is synonymous with robots and the science of robotics, here are 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: 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 Baley and R. Daneel Olivaw, who have appeared in such bestselling novesl as
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Let the master himself guide you through the key moments in the fictional history of robot-human relations--from the most primitive computers and movile machines to the first robot to become a man. (
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Introduction by Isaac Asimov
"Robot Visions" (1990 - new for this book)
"Too Bad!" (1989)
"Robbie" (1940)
"Reason" (1941)
"Liar!" (1941)
"Runaround" (1942)
"Evidence" (1946)
"Little Lost Robot"
"The Evitable Conflict" (1950)
"Feminine Intuition" (1969)
"The Bicentennial Man" (1976)
"Someday" (1956)
"Think!" (1977)
"Segregationist" (1967)
"Mirror Image" (1972)
"Lenny" (1957)
"Galley Slave" (1941)
"Christmas without Rodney" (1988)
"Robots I Have Known" (1954)
"The New Teachers" (1976)
"Whatever You Wish" (1977)
"The Friends We Make" (1977)
"Our Intelligent Tools" (1977)
"The Laws of Robotics" (1979)
"Future Fantastic" (1989)
"The Machine and the Robot" (1978)
"The New Profession" (1979)
"The Robot As Enemy?" (1979)
"Intelligences Together" (1979)
"My Robots" (1987)
"Cybernetic Organism" (1987)
"The Sense of Humor" (1988)
"Robots in Combination" (1988)
The volume features many black-and-white illustrations by Ralph McQuarrie.

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