The Complete Robot

The Complete Robot

Infobox Book
name = The Complete Robot
author = Isaac Asimov
country = flag|USA
language = English
series = Robot Series
genre = science fiction
publisher =
pub_date = 1982
media_type = book
pages =
preceded_by = I, Robot
followed_by = Robot Dreams
isbn = 978-0586057247

The Complete Robot is a collection of science fiction short stories by Isaac Asimov written between 1940 and 1976, which were previously collected in books "I, Robot", "The Rest of the Robots", and 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.

Contents:

* "A Boy's Best Friend"
* "Sally"
* "Someday"
* "Point of View"
* "Think!"
* "True Love"
* "Robot AL-76 Goes Astray"
* "Victory Unintentional"
* "Stranger In Paradise"
* "Light Verse"
* "Segregationist"
* "Robbie"
* "Let's Get Together"
* "Mirror Image"
* "The Tercentenary Incident"
* "First Law"
* "Runaround"
* "Reason"
* "Catch That Rabbit"
* "Liar!"
* "Satisfaction Guaranteed"
* "Lenny"
* "Galley Slave"
* "Little Lost Robot"
* "Risk"
* "Escape!"
* "Evidence"
* "The Evitable Conflict"
* "Feminine Intuition"
* "That Thou Art Mindful of Him"
* "The Bicentennial Man"

tories not set in the Foundation universe

Some of the stories found in this book definitely don't belong to the Robot Series, even though they are about Asimov's positronic robots who obey the Three Laws of Robotics. They are:
*"Let's Get Together"
*"Someday"
*"Victory Unintentional"

Some stories are about robots who don't obey to Three Laws of Robotics.
*In Sally there are positronic brain cars, and no other kinds of robots, who can damage men or not obey without problems.
*In Someday there are non-positronic computers which tell stories and don't obey to the Three Laws
*In That Thou art Mindful of Him are created robots with a very flexible Three Laws management, and these create little simplified robots with no laws and actually act against the three laws of Robotics.

tories not included

This collection includes most of Asimov's robot stories, but not all. Stories not included in this book are:
* "Mind and Iron" (the binding text from "I, Robot")
* "Robot Dreams" (found in the anthology of the same title)
* "Christmas Without Rodney" (found in "Robot Visions")
* "Cal" (found in "Gold")
* "Kid Brother" (found in "Gold")
* "Mother Earth" (found in "The Early Asimov", volume 3)


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