Robot Visions
1990 short story collection by Isaac Asimov
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::summary 1990 short story collection by Isaac Asimov ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Robot Visions |
| author | Isaac Asimov |
| image | File:RobotVisions.jpg |
| caption | First edition |
| cover_artist | Ralph McQuarrie |
| country | United States |
| language | English |
| series | Robot series |
| genre | science fiction |
| publisher | Roc |
| pub_date | 1990 |
| media_type | |
| preceded_by | Robot Dreams |
| followed_by | The Positronic Man |
| isbn | 0-451-45000-0 |
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| name = Robot Visions | author = Isaac Asimov | image = File:RobotVisions.jpg | caption = First edition | cover_artist = Ralph McQuarrie | country = United States | language = English | series = Robot series | genre = science fiction | publisher = Roc | pub_date = 1990 | media_type = print | pages = | preceded_by = Robot Dreams | followed_by = The Positronic Man | isbn = 0-451-45000-0
Robot Visions (1990) is a collection of science fiction short stories and factual essays by Isaac Asimov. Many of the stories are reprinted from other Asimov collections, particularly I, Robot and The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories. It also includes the title story, "Robot Visions" (written specifically for this collection), which combines Asimov's motifs of robots and of time travel. It is the companion book to Robot Dreams (1986).
Contents
Introduction: The Robot Chronicles
This is an 18-page introductory essay by Asimov. It consists of 17 pages of text and a one-page illustration by Ralph McQuarrie; these are the page counts of the hardcover edition. This essay (minus the illustration) was later reprinted in Asimov's collection Gold.
Stories
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| Title | Year | First appeared | "Robot Visions" | "Too Bad!" | "Robbie" | "Reason" | "Liar!" | "Runaround" | "Evidence" | "Little Lost Robot" | "The Evitable Conflict" | "Feminine Intuition" | "The Bicentennial Man" | "Someday" | "Think!" | "Segregationist" | "Mirror Image" | "Lenny" | "Galley Slave" | "Christmas Without Rodney" |
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| 1990 | First appeared in this collection | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1989 | First appeared in The Microverse | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1940 | First appeared in Super Science Stories under the title "Strange Playfellow” | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1941 | First appeared in Astounding Science Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1941 | First appeared in Astounding Science Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1942 | First appeared in Astounding Science Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1946 | First appeared in Astounding Science Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1947 | First appeared in Astounding Science Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1950 | First appeared in Astounding Science Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1969 | First appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1976 | First appeared in Stellar #2 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1956 | First appeared in Infinity Science Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1977 | First appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1967 | First appeared in Abbotempo 4 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1972 | First appeared in Analog: Science Fiction - Science Fact | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1958 | First appeared in Infinity Science Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1957 | First appeared in Astounding Science Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1988 | First appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine | |||||||||||||||||||
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Essays
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| Title | Year | First appeared | "Robots I Have Known" | "The New Teachers" | "Whatever You Wish" | "The Friends We Make" | "Our Intelligent Tools" | "The Machine and the Robot" | "The Laws of Robotics" | "The New Profession" | "The Robot As Enemy?" | "Intelligences Together" | "My Robots" | "The Laws of Humanics" | "Cybernetic Organism" | "The Sense of Humor" | "Robots in Combination" | "Future Fantastic" |
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| 1954 | First appeared in Computers and Automation, October 1954 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1976 | First appeared in American Way magazine | |||||||||||||||||
| 1977 | First appeared in American Way magazine | |||||||||||||||||
| 1977 | First appeared in American Way magazine | |||||||||||||||||
| 1977 | First appeared in American Way magazine | |||||||||||||||||
| 1978 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1979 | First appeared in American Way magazine | |||||||||||||||||
| 1979 | First appeared in American Way magazine | |||||||||||||||||
| 1979 | First appeared in American Way magazine | |||||||||||||||||
| 1979 | First appeared in American Way magazine | |||||||||||||||||
| 1987 | First appeared in Isaac Asimov's Robot City — Book 1: Odyssey | |||||||||||||||||
| 1987 | First appeared in Isaac Asimov's Robot City — Book 2: Suspicion | |||||||||||||||||
| 1987 | First appeared in Isaac Asimov's Robot City — Book 3: Cyborg | |||||||||||||||||
| 1988 | First appeared in Isaac Asimov's Robot City — Book 4: Prodigy | |||||||||||||||||
| 1988 | First appeared in Isaac Asimov's Robot City — Book 6: Perihelion | |||||||||||||||||
| 1989 | First appeared in Special Reports magazine, Spring 1989 | |||||||||||||||||
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References
References
- Asimov, Isaac: ''Robot Visions'', p. 17. Roc, 1990.
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