The Complete Robot
First edition
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| Author | Isaac Asimov |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Robot series |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Publisher | Doubleday |
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1982 |
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| Pages | 557 pp |
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| Preceded by | I, Robot |
| Followed by | Robot Dreams |
The Complete Robot (1982) is a collection of 31 of the 37 science fiction short stories about robots by Isaac Asimov, written between 1939 and 1977. Most of the stories had been previously collected in the books I, Robot and The Rest of the Robots, while four stories had previously been uncollected and the rest had been scattered across five other anthologies. Although working well enough as standalone stories, they share a theme of the interaction of humans, robots and morality, and put together tell a larger story of Asimov's fictional history of robotics. The stories are grouped into categories.
Stories that are about Asimov's positronic robots that do not obey the Three Laws of Robotics are:
This collection includes most of Asimov's robot short stories, but not all (primarily because he wrote additional robot stories after its publication); also omitted are the text connecting the stories in I, Robot, and Asimov's robot-centric novels, such as the Elijah Baley and R. Daneel Olivaw stories. The six Asimov robot short stories not included in this book are:
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