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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Leído y releído muchas veces. ( ) Interesting book: The plot sucks outright, but the prose and stories are quite good. Essentially, the book is a collection of short stories, most of which are sequential, but all of which are strung together by an interview. Then it ends. So, no, I will not be reading the rest of the series. Note: I did read the final book "Robots of Dawn" because I found it in the house. It was much worse. Fun genre-inventing SF mystery tales conceal sneaky, disturbing social commentary that both embraces and subverts mid-century values. I'm totally ashamed it took me so long to pick this book up. It's of course very Golden Age Boys' Club SF, which is not usually my thing, but we also get Susan Calvin, and touching moments of genuine humanity, and storytelling that grows more complex as the stories progress. I suspect that the robot is the most fertile icon of the twentieth century. Have something to say about capitalism, technological determinism, ethics, or free will? Say it with robots. Totally stoked for The Caves of Steel!
‘I, Robot’ Is a science fiction history book written by famous author Isaac Asimov, which contains a collection of interconnected stories.It has nine stories except the first story, other stories are interconnected, and these stories explore the relationship between humans and robots in a future society.They story starts with author is encouraging Doctor Susan Calvin, a robopsychologist who works at US Robots and Mechanical Men Corporation, who’s retirement day is that day, to tell stories of robots she encountered in her life.The first story was ‘Robbie’, where a young girl is being too much attached to her nursemaid robot Robbie.But to make her social human being, her parents removed the robot from her.This story goes on where Gloria was saved by Robbie.The next story is ‘Run around’,which is about a robot is facing contradiction of his three law and showing unexpected behaviour. The next story is about a robot Cutie who is not recognizing as human his master.Another story, Liar, Where a robot Harbie can read uman thoughts.But as his power grows stronger, it begans manipulating humans. So the whole book is a manifestation of human robot relationships, a society where we are being threatened by unexpected behavioural changes of robots and pushes readers to think of a world where humans are coexisting with Robots. Is contained inFoundation / Foundation and Empire / Second Foundation / The Stars, Like Dust / The Naked Sun / I, Robot by Isaac Asimov Le grand livre des robots (coffret 2 volumes) by Isaac Asimov (indirect) ContainsIs retold inHas the adaptationIs replied to inInspiredHas as a student's study guideDistinctionsNotable Lists
The three laws of Robotics: 1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm 2) A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. With these three, simple directives, Isaac Asimov changed our perception of robots forever when he formulated the laws governing their behavior. In I, Robot, Asimov chronicles the development of the robot through a series of interlinked stories: from its primitive origins in the present to its ultimate perfection in the not-so-distant future--a future in which humanity itself may be rendered obsolete. Here are stories of robots gone mad, of mind-read robots, and robots with a sense of humor. Of robot politicians, and robots who secretly run the world--all told with the dramatic blend of science fact and science fiction that has become Asmiov's trademark. No library descriptions found.
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