The Robot Stories (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Isaac Asimov
- First Published: 1950
- Type of Work: Stories
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—artificial intelligence
- Time of Work: 1996-2064
- Setting: The Earth and other planets in the solar system
- Genres: Short fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: Future, Other worlds, Twenty-first century, 1990’s, Earth, Robots or robotics, Artificial intelligence
- Locales: Earth, Solar system
The Plot
The bulk of Isaac Asimov’s short fiction about robots was written between 1940 and 1957. Nine stories are collected in I, Robot. Another eight, together with two robot novels—The Caves of Steel (1954) and The Naked Sun (1957)—appear in the collection The Rest of the Robots (1964). The eight stories, without the novels, also appear in Eight Stories from the Rest of the Robots (1966). Four more robot stories—“Feminine Intuition,” “That Thou Art Mindful of Him,” “The Life and Times of Multivac,” and “The...
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