The Robot Collection

Robot #0.3 & 1-2

by Isaac Asimov

Human detective Elijah Baley and his robot partner, Daneel Olivaw, solve two murders, and other robots and people face the strange situations and challenges of living and working together

Genres: Science Fiction, Fiction

557 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1983

About the author

Works of prolific Russian-American writer Isaac Asimov include popular explanations of scientific principles, The Foundation Trilogy (1951-1953), and other volumes of fiction.

Isaac Asimov, a professor of biochemistry, wrote as a highly successful author, best known for his books.

Asimov, professor, generally considered of all time, edited more than five hundred books and ninety thousand letters and postcards. He published in nine of the ten major categories of the Dewey decimal classification but lacked only an entry in the category of philosophy (100).

People widely considered Asimov, a master of the genre alongside Robert Anson Heinlein and Arthur Charles Clarke as the "big three" during his lifetime. He later tied Galactic Empire and the Robot into the same universe as his most famous series to create a unified "future history" for his stories much like those that Heinlein pioneered and Cordwainer Smith and Poul Anderson previously produced. He penned "Nightfall," voted in 1964 as the best short story of all time; many persons still honor this title. He also produced well mysteries, fantasy, and a great quantity of nonfiction. Asimov used Paul French, the pen name, for the Lucky Starr, series of juvenile novels.

Most books of Asimov in a historical way go as far back to a time with possible question or concept at its simplest stage. He often provides and mentions well nationalities, birth, and death dates for persons and etymologies and pronunciation guides for technical terms. Guide to Science, the tripartite set Understanding Physics, and Chronology of Science and Discovery exemplify these books.

Asimov, a long-time member, reluctantly served as vice president of Mensa international and described some members of that organization as "brain-proud and aggressive about their IQs." He took more pleasure as president of the humanist association. The asteroid 5020 Asimov, the magazine Asimov's Science Fiction, an elementary school in Brooklyn in New York, and two different awards honor his name.

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Reviews

[Ben Glennon · Rating 3 out of 5]

The stories were, generally speaking, enjoyable and well written. Though the mystery and logical solution pattern because somewhat repetitive.

The Bicentennial Man was phenomenal

[Rahul Mehta · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brilliant collection of prescient tales and vignettes, each tackling an element not only of robotics but mainly the human condition. Asimov manages to balance the creativity of sci-fi with an emotive writing style. As AI develops, Asimov's words are necessary reading.

[Michael Trup · Rating 4 out of 5]

Forgotten some of the pleasures of Science Fiction but fascinating in a time in which Artificial Intelligence has become an item of everyday discussion.

[Bob · Rating 5 out of 5]

Isaac was a sci-fi writers, sci-fi writer.

[Natalia]

"Meet Asimov and his Robots! This big, fat volume contains Asimov's two celebrated robot novels,'The Caves of Steel' and the 'The Naked Sun', starring interplanetary detective Elijah Baley and every Asimov robot story. It will delight robot fans and those who love entertaining, puzzling and stimulating tales. Published simultaneously with the master's third full-length novel, 'The Robots of Dawn', 'The Robot Collection' is the first one-volume anthology to contain all of Asimov's robot fiction and is a tribute to the skill and imagination which have placed Isaac Asimov among the all-time greats of science fiction." (quoted from Fantastic Fiction site)

[Tom · Rating 5 out of 5]

AWESOME !

[Kathleen Raynor]

I liked the first two books in this collection. It gives a view of what cities are like in the future with cities as large as a state with moving sidewalks and living underground. The second book takes place on another planet and their relationship to robots. I did't like to read the short stories in the last book in this series, since it did't relate to the story line.