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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…
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THE COMPLETE ROBOT is the definitive anthology of Asimov’s stunning visions of a robotic future…
In these stories, Issac 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.
As well as TN-3 (Tony), AL-76 and other robots, the stories feature the staff of US Robots and Mechanical Men Inc., and in particular the chief robot-psychologist, the steely Dr Susan Calvin who is in many ways more robot-like than her subjects.
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 Massachussetts Institute of Technology – with surprising results. Readers of today still have many surprises in store.
THE THREE LAWS OF 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 the 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
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When I was younger, I wanted to be Susan Calvin (but hopefully better looking), the robopsychologist who is the star of some of the best stories. She's a great character, years ahead of her time. The collection also includes the original Bicentennial Man story. Don't bother with the dreadful Robin Williams film. Read this. It will break your heart without even trying.
What makes these stories most compelling is that they're set in the times in which we live now, Asimov's future, and it's interesting to see how much we have evolved. He wasn't right about everything, but computers have evolved in such a way that we're reliant on them, whilst resenting that reliance. In that he was completely right!
I found it easy to read and could read a short story at a time. Read more
These (to me) represent the Isaac Asimov I read when I was a kid, and I still love the... Read more
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