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THE THREE LAWS or ROBOTICS 1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the first or Second Law.
Isaac Asimov changed our perception of robots forever when he formulated the classic laws governing their behavior. In I, Robot Asimov chronicles the development of the robot from its primitive origins in the present to its ultimate perfection in the not-so- distant future—a future in which humanity itself may rendered obsolete.
Here are stories of robots gone mad, mind-reading robots, robots with a sense of humor, robot politicians, and robots who secretly run the world, all told with the dramatic blend of science fact and science fiction that has become Asimov's trademark.
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smear campaigns, supercomputers, computers, Frankenstein complex, hyperspace, heisenbugs, asteroids, Shahada, space stations, space-based solar power, cognitive dissonance, selenium, robots, morality, robotics, robopsychology, positronic brains, three laws of robotics, ethics of artificial intelligence, American Science fiction, Readers (Secondary), Readers, Fiction, Science fiction, human-robot relations, Thriller, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Science fiction, American, Short stories, American Short stories, Artificial intelligence, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, Fiction, science fiction, short stories, Roman, Fiction, science fiction, collections & anthologies, American literature, Robots in fiction, Children's fiction, High tech and hard science fictionPeople
Susan Calvin (Fictitious character), Alfred Lanning (Fictitious character), Robbie, Gloria, Mrs. Weston, Mr. Weston, Powell, Donovan, Robot SPD-13, Gilbert and Sullivan, QT-1, DV-5, Stephen Byerley, Francis Quinn, Peter Bogert, Gerald Black, RB-34, René Descartes, Gloria WestonPlaces
New York City, Museum of Science and Industry, Finmark Robot Corporation, Mercury, Hyper Base, EarthTimes
21st Century, 2015, 1982, 1998, 2052Showing 11 featured editions. View all 97 editions?
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2014, Oscar Mondadori
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- I edizione Oscar bestsellers maggio 2003 (19)
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I, Robot
2004-06, Bantam Books
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I, Robot
1996, HarperCollins Publishers
Mass Market Paperback
in English
- Paperback edition 1996 (14)
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I, Robot
1991-12, Spectra/Bantam Books
Mass Market Paperback
in English
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1991-12, Spectra
Mass Market Paperback
in English
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I, Robot
1983-12, Del Rey
Mass Market Paperback
in English
- 1st Ballantine Books ed.
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I, Robot
1977?, Fawcett Crest
Mass Market Paperback
in English
- 1st Fawcett Crest printing (24)
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"I looked at my notes and I didn't like them."
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I, Robot is a fixup novel of science fiction short stories or essays by American writer Isaac Asimov. The stories originally appeared in the American magazines Super Science Stories and Astounding Science Fiction between 1940 and 1950 and were then compiled into a book for stand-alone publication by Gnome Press in 1950, in an initial edition of 5,000 copies. The stories are woven together by a framing narrative in which the fictional Dr. Susan Calvin tells each story to a reporter (who serves as the narrator) in the 21st century. Although the stories can be read separately, they share a theme of the interaction of humans, robots, and morality, and when combined they tell a larger story of Asimov's fictional history of robotics.
Contains:
"Introduction" (the initial portion of the framing story or linking text)
"Robbie" (1940, 1950)
"Runaround" (1942)
"Reason" (1941)
"Catch That Rabbit" (1944)
"Liar!" (1941)
"Little Lost Robot" (1947)
"Escape!" (1945)
"Evidence" (1946)
"The Evitable Conflict" (1950)
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Foundation / I, Robot
Great Science Fiction Stories
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