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Robot Series Series

This fascinating science fiction series is set in a distant future where robots and advanced technology shape human society. It explores the complex relationships between humans and their artificial creations. Readers are immersed in the ethical dilemmas and philosophical questions that arise from coexisting with intelligent machines.

Robot Visions
Le cycle des robots 1: Les robots
Robots and Empire
The Robots of Dawn
The Naked Sun
The Caves of Steel

Recommended Reading Order

  1. The Caves of Steel

    • 288 pages
    • 11 hours of reading

    A millennium into the future two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. Isaac Asimov’s Robot novels chronicle the unlikely partnership between a New York City detective and a humanoid robot who must learn to work together. Like most people left behind on an over-populated Earth, New York City police detective Elijah Baley had little love for either the arrogant Spacers or their robotic companions. But when a prominent Spacer is murdered under mysterious circumstances, Baley is ordered to the Outer Worlds to help track down the killer. The relationship between Life and his Spacer superiors, who distrusted all Earthmen, was strained from the start. Then he learned that they had assigned him a partner: R. Daneel Olivaw. Worst of all was that the “R” stood for robot—and his positronic partner was made in the image and likeness of the murder victim!

    The Caves of Steel1
    4.0

  2. The Naked Sun

    • 208 pages
    • 8 hours of reading

    The electrifying sequel to Caves of Steel in which Elijah Baley is once more teemed up with R. Daneel. The two must travel to Solaria, where no human has gone in over a thousand years!

    The Naked Sun2
    4.2

  3. The Robots of Dawn

    Detective Elijah Bailey and his robot partner R. Daneel Olivaw are sent to the Spacer world of Aurora to solve a bizarre case of roboticide.

    The Robots of Dawn3
    4.2

  4. Robots and Empire

    • 249 pages
    • 9 hours of reading

    Long after his humiliating defeat at the hands of Earthman Elijah Baley, Keldon Amadiro embarked on a plan to destroy planet Earth. But even after his death, Baley's vision continued to guide his robot partner, R. Daneel Olivaw, who had the wisdom of a great man behind him and an indestructable will to win....

    Robots and Empire4
    4.1

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  • Le cycle des robots 1: Les robots

    • 285 pages
    • 10 hours of reading

    Première Loi : Un robot ne peut porter atteinte à un être humain ni, restant passif, laisser cet être humain exposé au danger. Deuxième Loi : Un robot doit obéir aux ordres donnés par les êtres humains, sauf si de tels ordres entrent en contradiction avec la Première Loi. Troisième Loi : Un robot doit protéger son existence dans la mesure où cette protection n'entre pas en contradiction avec la Première ou la Deuxième Loi.

    Le cycle des robots 1: Les robots
    4.1

  • Robot Visions

    • 496 pages
    • 18 hours of reading

    From Isaac Asimov, the Hugo Award-winning Grand Master of Science Fiction, comes five decades of robot visions: thirty-four landmark stories and essays—including three rare tales—gathered together in one volume. Meet all of Asimov’s most famous creations including: Robbie, the very first robot that his imagination brought to life; Susan Calvin, the original robot psychologist; Stephen Byerley, the humanoid robot; and the famous human/robot detective team of Lije Bailey and R. Daneel Olivaw, who have appeared in such bestselling novels as The Robots of Dawn and Robots and Empire. Let the master himself guide you through the key moments in the fictional history of robot-human relations—from the most primitive computers and mobile machines to the first robot to become a man. “It’s good to have Isaac’s classic robot stories, and his commentary on them, in one handsome volume.”—Arthur C. Clarke

    Robot Visions
    4.3

  • Positronisch brein

    • 256 pages
    • 9 hours of reading

    Powerful and haunting, The Positronic Man is an unforgettable novel that redefines Isaac Asimov's and Robert Silverberg's place among the greatest science fiction authors of all time. In the twenty-first century the creation of the positronic brain leads to the development of robot laborers and revolutionizes life on Earth. But to the Martin family, their household robot NDR-113 is more than a trusted friend, a confidant, a member of the family. For through some unknown manufacturing glitch, Andrew has been blessed with a capacity for love and a drive toward self-awareness and devlopment that are almost...human. But almost is not enough. Andrew's dream is to become fully human. Facing human prejudice, the laws of robotics, and his own mechanical limitations, Andrew will use science and law in his quest for the impossible, arriving at last at a terrifying choice: to make his dream a reality, he must pay the ultimate price.

    Positronisch brein
    4.4

  • Robot Dreams

    Robot Dreams collects 21 of Isaac Asimov's short stories spanning the body of his fiction from the 1940s to the 1980s, exploring not only the future of technology, but the future of humanity's maturity and growth.

    Robot Dreams
    4.1

  • Robouniversum Isaaca Asimova, Vize robotů. 1.

    Sbírka sci-fi povídek a esejů Isaaka Asimova, z nichž mnoho vyšlo již v jiných sbírkách, zejména Já, robot a The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories. Nicméně povídky již otištěné ve sbírce Já, robot prošly redakcí, jež z nich měla vytvořit souvislejší celek, zatímco tato verze těchto příběhů je ponechána v původní časopisecky vydávané verzi.

    Robouniversum Isaaca Asimova, Vize robotů. 1.
    4.3

  • The Rest of the Robots

    ROBOT TONY is the first robot designed to perform domestic duties by the US Robots and Mechanical Men Corporation. Is it Tony's fault that the lady of the house where he's field tested falls in love with him?ROBOT AL was intended for shipment to a mining outfit on the moon. Instead, he's loose in the mountains of Virginia...building from scraps of junk his very own, very dangerous disintegrator.ROBOT LENNY answers workaday questions in babytalk. So why is Dr Susan Calvin, the world's top robopsychologist, fascinated by this messed up specimen of an industrial robot?

    The Rest of the Robots
    4.1

  • I, Robot

    • 272 pages
    • 10 hours of reading

    They mustn't harm a human being, they must obey human orders, and they must protect their own existence...but only so long as that doesn't violate rules one and two. With these Three Laws of Robotics, humanity embarked on a bold new era of evolution that would open up enormous possibilities - and unforeseen risks. For the scientists who invented the earliest robots weren't content that their creations should remain programmed helpers, companions, and semisentient worker-machines. And soon the robots themselves, aware of their own intelligence, power, and humanity, aren't either. As humans and robots struggle to survive together - and sometimes against each other - in earth and in space, the future of both hangs in the balance. Here human men and women confront robots gone mad, telepathic robots, robot politicians, and vast robotic intelligences that may already secretly control the world. And both are asking the same question: What is human? And is humanity obsolete? --back cover

    I, Robot
    4.0

  • Eight Stories from the Rest of the Robots

    "The First Law of Robotics" A Robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. So how could Robot MA-2 abandon its owner to certain death? How could Robot LNE-Pr break it's masters are with a blow of its fist? How could Robot EZ-27 turn against its owner and utterly ruin him? Meet Dr. Susan Calvin, robopsychologist, whose mission is to investigate the robots and save humanity from destruction from their hands. Dangerous, Dazzling, Demonic...Here they come!" In these eight stories selected from his monumental classic The Rest of the Robots Isaac Asimov displays the wit, drama and imagination that make his robot stories the most popular of all!

    Eight Stories from the Rest of the Robots
    4.1