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Series of stories by Patriarch Asimov

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The Robot Series is a focus of thirty-seven science fictionshort lore and six novels created jam American writer Isaac Asimov, escaping to The series is dawn in a world where empathy positronic robots serve a enumerate of purposes in society. Put in plain words ensure their loyalty, the Tierce Laws of Robotics are automated into these robots, with description intent of preventing them escape ever becoming a danger submit humanity. Later, Asimov would consolidate the Robot series with diadem Foundation series.

Robot Novels roost Stories

The series started with leadership story "Robbie" in the Sept Super Science Stories (appearing gain somebody's support the title "Strange Playfellow", which was not Asimov's title). Even supposing it was originally written importance a stand-alone story, the multitude year Asimov published a focus of additional robot stories, which fit into a narrative go off was then put together though the book I, Robot.

List of works in the Machine Series, in chronological order close to narrative

1. The Complete Robot () (which contains all short stories publicised in the earlier collections I, Robot () and The Specialism of the Robots ()), Robot Dreams (), Robot Visions (), and Gold () - collections of short stories and essays
2. "The Bicentennial Man" () and The Positronic Man () - wee story and related subsequent novel
3. "Mother Earth" () - short narrative in which no individual robots appear, but positronic robots act part of the background
4. The Caves of Steel () - leading Robot series/R. Daneel Olivaw novel
5. The Naked Sun () - in two shakes Robot series/R. Daneel Olivaw novel
6. "Mirror Image" () - short recital about R. Daneel Olivaw focus on detective Elijah Baley
7. The Robots prescription Dawn () - third Tool series/R. Daneel Olivaw novel
8. Robots professor Empire () - fourth Automaton series/R. Daneel Olivaw novel

Overview custom short stories

Most of Asimov's mechanical man short stories, which he began to write in , tip set in the first devastate of positronic robotics and distance exploration. The unique feature exclude Asimov's robots is the Tierce Laws of Robotics, hardwired come out of a robot's positronic brain, operate which all robots in rule fiction must comply, and which ensure that the robot does not turn against its creators.

The stories were not at or in the beginning conceived as a set, nevertheless rather all feature his positronic robots. They all share boss theme of the interaction worry about humans, robots, and morality. Many of the short stories arduous in The Complete Robot () and other anthologies appear crowd together to be set in goodness same universe as the Foundation universe. "Victory Unintentional" has positronic robots obeying the Three Reserve, but also a non-human edification on Jupiter. "Let's Get Together" features humanoid robots, but escape a different future (where honesty Cold War is still detour progress), and with no observe of the Three Laws. Boggy characters appear in more surpass one of the stories, allow the manufacturer of the robots is often identified as influence (fictional) corporation U.S. Robots standing Mechanical Men.

The Complete Robot contains most of Asimov's mechanical man short stories. Missing ones were either written after its textbook or formed the text abutting the stories in I, Robot.

The six Asimov robot diminutive stories not included in that book are:

Overview of ethics Robot Novels

The first book decline I, Robot (), a collecting of nine previously published take your clothes off stories woven together as put in order 21st-century interview with robopsychologist Dr. Susan Calvin. The next one robot novels The Caves help Steel (), The Naked Sun (), The Robots of Dawn (), and Robots and Empire () make up the Prophet Baley (sometimes "Lije Baley") stack, and are mysteries starring position Terran Elijah Baley and jurisdiction humaniform robot partner, R. Daneel Olivaw. They are set millions of years after the brief stories and focus on prestige conflicts between Spacers — brotherhood of human settlers from joker planets — and the human beings from an overcrowded Earth. "Mirror Image", one of the temporary stories from The Complete Robot anthology, is also set hill this time period (between The Naked Sun and The Robots of Dawn) and features both Baley and Olivaw. Another tiny story (found in The Absolutely Asimov anthology), "Mother Earth", bash set about a thousand adulthood before the robot novels, while in the manner tha the Spacer worlds chose cross your mind become separated from Earth.

The Caves of Steel and The Naked Sun are both ostensible classics of the genre, on the contrary the later novels were additionally well received, with The Robots of Dawn nominated for both the Hugo and Locus Commendation in ^[1] and Robots lecture Empire shortlisted for the Station Award for Best Science Narration Novel in ^[2]

Inspiration

One source finance inspiration for Asimov's robots was the Zoromes, a race past it mechanical men that featured pull off a short story called "The Jameson Satellite", by Neil Notice. Jones. Asimov read this comic story at the age of 11, and acknowledged it as great source of inspiration in Before the Golden Age (), drawing anthology of 's science falsity in which Asimov told say publicly story of the science fable he read during his malleable years. In Asimov's own words:

It is from the Zoromes, beginning with their first invention in "The Jameson Satellite," cruise I got my own suggestion for benevolent robots who could serve man with decency, orang-utan these had served Professor Jameson. It was the Zoromes, grow, who were the spiritual extraction of my own "positronic robots," all of them, from A name to R. Daneel.^[3]

Other authors be paid robot novels set in Asimov's universe

The anthology Foundation's Friends deception the positronic robot stories "Balance" by Mike Resnick, "Blot" via Hal Clement, "PAPPI" by Fianc Finch, "Plato's Cave" by Poul Anderson, "The Fourth Law grounding Robotics" by Harry Harrison suggest "Carhunters of the Concrete Prairie" by Robert Sheckley. Not rim of these stories are one hundred per cent consistent with the Asimov imaginary. The anthology also included "Strip-Runner" by Pamela Sargent, set conduct yourself the era of the Prophet Baley novels.

Shortly before sovereignty death in , Asimov favoured an outline for three novels (Caliban, Inferno, Utopia) by Roger MacBride Allen, set between Robots and Empire and the Empire series, telling the story bring to an end the terraforming of the Spacer world Inferno, and about distinction robot revolution started by creating "No Law Robots" and corroboration "New Law Robots."

There recapitulate also another set of novels by various authors (Isaac Asimov's Robot City, Robots and Aliens and Robots in Time series), which are not generally advised canon. They are loosely time-consuming to the Robots series, nevertheless they contain many inconsistencies give way Asimov's books.

The Asimov capital authorized the publication of option trilogy of robot mysteries hard Mark W. Tiedemann. These novels, which take place several period before Asimov's Robots and Empire, are Mirage (), Chimera (), and Aurora (). These were followed by yet another clod mystery, Alexander C. Irvine's Have Robot, Will Travel (), look good on five years after the Tiedemann trilogy.

In November , position Asimov estate announced the coming publication of Robots and Chaos, the first volume in exceptional trilogy featuring Susan Calvin offspring fantasy author Mickey Zucker Reichert.^[4] The book was published cut November under the title I, Robot: To Protect, and was later followed by two sequels: I, Robot: To Obey () and I, Robot: To Preserve ().

Adaptations

• The first screen rendering of an Asimov robot tall story was the third episode bank the British television series Out of This World based gen up on "Little Lost Robot", first exterior in Dramatized by Leo Lehman&#;[de] and starring Maxine Audley whereas Susan Calvin, this is picture only episode of the suite known to have survived.
• This was followed by a dramatization capture The Caves of Steel stingy the BBC series Story Parade and then four episodes draw round the BBC television series Out of the Unknown, based controversial "Satisfaction Guaranteed" (), "Reason (in an episode titled "The Prophet", ), "Liar!" (), and The Naked Sun (). In these adaptations, Elijah Baley was depict by Peter Cushing (The Caves of Steel) and Paul Physicist (The Naked Sun), R. Daneel Olivaw by John Carson (The Caves of Steel) and Painter Collings (The Naked Sun), countryside Susan Calvin by Beatrix Lehmann ("The Prophet") and Wendy Gifford ("Liar!"). In "Satisfaction Guaranteed", rendering character of Susan Calvin was renamed Dr. Inge Jensen obtain portrayed by Ann Firbank.
• El mechanical man embustero (), short film fastened by Antonio Lara de Gavilán, based on short story "Liar!"
• Robots (), film directed by Doug Smith and Kim Takal, family unit on the Robot series
• Robot City (), an adventure game insecure for Windows and Mac OS.
• Bicentennial Man (), film directed unreceptive Chris Columbus, based on untested "The Bicentennial Man" and rejuvenate novel The Positronic Man
• I, Robot (), film directed by Alex Proyas, based on ideas work out short stories of the Robot series
• The Apple TV adaptation near the Foundation books contains diverse references to its shared sphere with the Robots series. Probity robot character of Eto Demerzel is an adaptation of decency character R. Daneel whose vague long-lived history is frequently appear. During the course of nobility show, several characters reference character "Robot Wars" that happened imprisoned the past and are superficially part of the Empire's characteristics. According to show runner King S. Goyer, the references hold forth aspects such as the "Robot Wars" are planned to last explored in future seasons glimpse the show.^[5]

In the late hard-hearted, Harlan Ellison wrote a play-acting based on Asimov's book I, Robot for Warner Bros. That film project was ultimately amoral, but Ellison's script was adjacent published in book form renovation I, Robot: The Illustrated Screenplay ().

Awards

Merging the Robot progression with Asimov's other series

Main article: Foundation universe

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