The Rest of the Robots

Author:   Isaac Asimov
Publisher:   HarperCollins Publishers
Edition:   Re-issue
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9780586025949


Pages:   224
Publication Date:   10 January 1994
Format:   Paperback
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The Rest of the Robots


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The third timeless, amazing and amusing volume of Isaac Asimov's robot stories. Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics have since been programmed into real computers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and used as the outline for a legal robotic charter in Korea. ROBOT TONY is the first robot designed to perform domestic duties by the US Robots and Mechanical Men Corporation. Is it Tony’s fault that the lady of the house where he’s field tested falls in love with him? ROBOT AL was intended for shipment to a mining outfit on the moon. Instead, he’s loose in the mountains of Virginia…building from scraps of junk his very own, very dangerous disintegrator. ROBOT LENNY answers workaday questions in babytalk. So why is Dr Susan Calvin, the world’s top robopsychologist, fascinated by this messed up specimen of an industrial robot?

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Author:   Isaac Asimov
Publisher:   HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint:   Voyager
Edition:   Re-issue
Dimensions:   Width: 11.10cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 17.80cm
Weight:   0.120kg
ISBN:  

9780586025949


ISBN 10:   0586025944
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   10 January 1994
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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`Isaac Asimov was one of the great explainers of the age...It will never be known how many practicing scientists today, in how many countries, owe their initial inspiration to a book, article, or short story by Isaac Asimov'Carl Sagan `Asimov displayed one of the most dynamic imaginations in science fiction'Daily Telegraph `Asimov's career was one of the most formidable in science fiction'The Times


'Isaac Asimov was one of the great explainers of the age...It will never be known how many practicing scientists today, in how many countries, owe their initial inspiration to a book, article, or short story by Isaac Asimov' Carl Sagan 'Asimov displayed one of the most dynamic imaginations in science fiction' Daily Telegraph 'Asimov's career was one of the most formidable in science fiction' The Times


??Isaac Asimov might sniff (albeit approvingly) at the robots on display at ??orld's Fair, but who could have a better right than the father of the new breed of ??science fiction robots: the man who developed the science of Robotics with its famous ??ree laws. This anthology contains (with the exception of the I Robot series) the ??ulk of his stories regarding Robotics. In brief introductions he describes the conception (anti-Frankenstein) and development of his pseudo-science. Combining inex??rable logic with sympathetic humaneness, Asimov manages to endow his characters human or R ) with engaging personal characteristics while maintaining an intricate ??ot-line. Fascinating- a must for collectors. (Kirkus Reviews)


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Isaac Asimov was born in 1920 in Russia and was brought to the USA by his parents three years later. He grew up in Brooklyn and attended Columbia University. After a short spell in the army, he gained a doctorate and worked in academia and chemical research. Asimov's career as a science fiction writer began in 1939 with the short story 'Marooned Off Vesta'. Thereafter he became a regular contributor to the leading SF magazines of the day. Asimov wrote hundreds of short stories and novels, including the iconic I, Robot and Foundation. He won the Hugo Award four times and the Nebula Award once. Apart from his world-famous science fiction, Asimov also wrote highly successful detective mystery stories, a four-volume History of North America, a two-volume Guide to the Bible, a biographical dictionary, encyclopedias, and textbooks, as well as two volumes of autobiography. Asimov died in 1992 at the age of 72.

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