I, Robot
About this book
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.
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Contains: "Introduction" "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)
Subjects
- american literature
- american science fiction
- american short stories
- artificial intelligence
- asteroids
- children's fiction
- cognitive dissonance
- computers
- fiction
- fiction, science fiction, collections & anthologies
- fiction, science fiction, short stories
- frankenstein complex
- heisenbugs
- high tech and hard science fiction
- human-robot relations
- hyperspace
- long now manual for civilization
- morality
- positronic brains
- readers
- readers (secondary)
- reading level-grade 10
- reading level-grade 11
- reading level-grade 12
- robopsychology
- robotics
- robots
- robots in fiction
- roman
- science fiction
- science fiction, american
- selenium
- shahada
- short stories
- smear campaigns
- space-based solar power
- space stations
- supercomputers
- three laws of robotics
- thriller