An edition of I, Robot (1950)

I, Robot

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An edition of I, Robot (1950)

I, Robot

Book Club Edition
  • 4.2 (155 ratings) ·
  • 969 Want to read
  • 63 Currently reading
  • 260 Have read

Long out of print and in great demand, here again is the famous science fiction classic—

i, robot

Isaac Asimov

"To you, a robot is a robot. Gears and Metal; Electricity and positrons.—Mind and iron! Human-made! If necessary, human-destroyed. But you haven't worked with them, so you don't know them. They're a cleaner, better breed than we are."

—Dr. Susan Calvin, 2057 A.D.

In a brilliant, chilling series of nine related short stories, the author chronicles robot development from its crude mid-twentieth century beginnings to a state of such perfection that a hundred years later robots are running man's world for his own good. Dr. Asimov has endowed his mechanical creations with disarmingly human personalities—from Robbie, the beloved, mute nursemaid of an eight-year-old girl, to Stephen Byerley who was elected first World Co-ordinator.

A Science Fiction Book Club selection
--front flap

Publish Date
Language
English
Pages
218

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mass market paperback in French
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Io, Robot
2014, Oscar Mondadori
paperback in Italian - I edizione Oscar bestsellers maggio 2003 (19)
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I, Robot
2008-05, Bantam Books
Paperback in English - printing (4)
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I, Robot
2004-06, FollettBound
library binding in English - printing (37)
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I, Robot
2004-06, Bantam Books
Hardcover in English - Bantam hardcover ed. (2)
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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 - Bantam edition
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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, Robot
1956-03, New American Library
Mass Market Paperback in English - 6th printing
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I, Robot
1950, Doubleday & Company, Inc.
hardcover in English - Book Club Edition

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Table of Contents

Robbie
Runaround
Reason
Catch That Rabbit
Liar!
Little Lost Robot
Escape!
Evidence
The Evitable Conflict

Edition Notes

Published in
Garden City, N.Y.
Series
Doubleday science fiction
Copyright Date
1950

The Physical Object

Format
hardcover
Pagination
218 p.
Number of pages
218

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL16521070M
Internet Archive
irobot0000unse_w6s4
Goodreads
59703449

Work Description

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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