The Complete Robot
1982
- american science fiction
- english language
- fiction
- robots
- text-books for foreign speakers
- text-booksfor foreign speakers
- machine theory
- translations into german
- fiction, science fiction, general
- american literature
The story
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… A Boy's Best Friend Sally Someday Some Immobile Robots Point of View Think! True Love Some Metallic Robots Robot AL-76 Goes Astray Victory Unintentional Stranger in Paradise Light Verse Segregationist [Robbie](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL46260W) Some Humanoid Robots Let's Get Together Mirror Image The Tercentenary Incident Powell and Donovan First Law Runaround Reason Catch That Rabbit Susan Calvin Liar! Satisfaction Guaranteed Lenny Galley Slave Little Lost Robot Risk Escape! Evidence The Evitable Conflict Feminine Intuition Two Climaxes —That Thou Art Mindful of Him! The Bicentennial Man
What it’s like
Crisp mid-century science fiction on the page: brisk, witty prose with a dry, plainspoken narrator who reports on engineers, roboticists and bureaucrats as if taking notes in a well-lit office. The sensory world is mostly interiors and clean industrial spaces, gleaming laboratories, quiet offices, and the scuffed corridors of a near-future Earth, rendered with economy rather than lushness, so the imagery arrives as neat, tactile details of machines, circuitry and everyday domestic life. Vibe: cerebral, cheerful, faintly nostalgic, a puzzle-box calm that suits a rainy Sunday or a slow evening with tea. Each story is short and self-contained, so it works for dipping in and out, and the pacing is brisk with sharp turns and tidy reversals rather than sustained suspense. The emotional register is warm and gently amused, with a steady undercurrent of curiosity about what makes a mind, human or otherwise. Intensity is very low: there is essentially no gore or graphic violence, little sexual content, and tension comes from logic puzzles and moral dilemmas rather than fear. The arcs follow characters who slowly come to see robots, and their own assumptions, differently. Best for readers who want gentle, thoughtful science fiction with clever problem-solving and a humane, unhurried heart.
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