Robot Dreams

, #0.4

352 pages

English language

Published Nov. 9, 2004 by Ace Books.

ISBN:
978-0-441-01183-4
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OCLC Number:
54929474

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Robot Dreams (1986) is a collection of science fiction short stories by American writer Isaac Asimov, illustrated by Ralph McQuarrie. The title story is about Susan Calvin's discovery of a robot with rather disturbing dreams. It was written specifically for this volume and inspired by the McQuarrie cover illustration. All of the other stories had previously appeared in various other Asimov collections. Four of the stories are robot stories, while five are Multivac stories. The companion book, which also showcases McQuarrie's illustrations (and includes Asimov essays in addition to short stories), is titled Robot Visions.

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Pretty enjoyable, but I profess the Three Laws makes me laugh a bit. "Removal of the first law would mean no non-imaginary solutions to the positronic field equations!" - Little Lost Robot. Total psuedobabble composed out of things that, at first glance, sound like legitimate science. One could compose field equations for positrons, and try to alter them to take out any real solutions - in fact, one should have only real solutions because we only see real numbers in the everyday world. So one in practice, one would end up with no solutions at all as the imaginary ones wouldn't be terribly valid. Not too bad, so far: one could definitely imagine your machine becoming very unusable if it had no valid solutions coming out of its calculations. If you wanted to make it merely unstable instead of totally unusable though like in the plot, it would be better …

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Subjects

  • Robots -- Fiction
  • Science fiction, American