The Complete Robot

The complete collection of Isaac Asimov's classic Robot stories. In these stories, Asimov creates the Three Laws of Robotics and ushers in the Robot Age -- when Earth is ruled by master-machines and when robots are more human than mankind. The Complete Robot is the ultimate collection of timeless, amazing and amusing robot stories from the greatest science fiction writer of all time, offering golden insights into robot thought processes. Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics were programmed into real computers thirty years ago at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- with suprising results. Readers of today still have many surprises in store!

ISBN 0586057242   Pages 688 ISBN13 9780586057247 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 362 Publisher HarperCollins Publishers   Published in London Imprint Voyager   Series title Robot series Format Paperback   Height (mm) 178 Publication date 15 Dec 1983   Width (mm) 111 DEWEY 813.54   Academic level General DEWEY edition DC19

This collection of Asimov's Robot short stories has everything good sci-fi should - humour, pathos, mystery, strong characters and (the best sign of a classic in the genre) spookily accurate prediction at times. As with Clarke's geostationary satellites, Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics have now been informally adopted as a basis for modern robotics...a scary concept when the theme of many of the stories is the loopholes and paradoxes that can still arise in a perfect system. The recent film I, Robot starring Will Smith took several plot lines and characters from this book, but don't let that put you off! - Geoff Robbins - Bookseller at Blackwell bookshop, South Bridge, Edinburgh

Because Asimov is the master not only of the short story, but is also one of the masters in the Golden age of Sci fi. The Three laws of Robotics have inspired a million and one different tales. His robots were to become the archetype of many a future character, from Robbie the Robot in Forbiddden Planet, through Data in Star Trek: TNG and Kryten in Red Dwarf. Although this book is Sci fi, it has a Fifties feel in the way it looks to the future as something better and exciting than the present in a way that current Sci Fi no longer does. - Lauren Gerrard - Bookseller at Blackwell, King's Buildings, Edinburgh



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