The Complete Robot

Mass Market Paperback, 680 pages

Published Dec. 15, 1983 by Voyager.

ISBN:
978-0-586-05724-7
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4 stars (36 reviews)

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 short 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 surprising results. Readers of today still have many surprises in store…

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3 stars

I think I enjoyed Asimov more as a teenager, not that it aged as badly as some. Would be interested in others' thought on such rereading.

We got The Complete Robot via interlibrary loan to round out our reading/rereading of the Foundation series (we’d read the first three or four around 1980). Asimov’s brief introduction and commentaries felt eccentric and fun, as well as informative. This is a long book but it reads pretty fast. That said, it’s also like the Foundation stories in that some of us find it hard to keep track of all the characters and happenings of so many vignettes told in generally spare prose.

I wish they had printed the story titles at the top of the pages!

These are short stories outside of the Foundation and Robot cycles, so no R. Daneel Olivaw – wait, that’s a lie, he does appear in one story, …

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