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I, Robot

by Isaac Asimov

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Earliest known edition
1950
Selected edition
hardcover
Pages in this edition
218
English editions
44 ↗
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1950 · Doubleday & Company, Inc. · eng

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Long out of print and in great demand, here again is the famous science fiction classic—

i, robot

Isaac Asimov

"To you, a robot is a robot. Gears and Metal; Electricity and positrons.—Mind and iron! Human-made! If necessary, human-destroyed. But you haven't worked with them, so you don't know them. They're a cleaner, better breed than we are."

—Dr. Susan Calvin, 2057 A.D.

In a brilliant, chilling series of nine related short stories, the author chronicles robot development from its crude mid-twentieth century beginnings to a state of such perfection that a hundred years later robots are running man's world for his own good. Dr. Asimov has endowed his mechanical creations with disarmingly human personalities—from Robbie, the beloved, mute nursemaid of an eight-year-old girl, to Stephen Byerley who was elected first World Co-ordinator.

A Science Fiction Book Club selection
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Catalogued editions of I, Robot
EditionPublicationFormatPagesSource
I, RobotSelected1950hardcover218Open Library ↗
I, Robot1970-08paperback192Open Library ↗
I, Robot2013paperback245Open Library ↗
I, Robot2008-05paperback224Open Library ↗
I, Robotby Isaac Asimov1956-03paperback192Open Library ↗
I, RobotIsaac Asimov.2004-06hardcover224Open Library ↗
I, RobotIsaac Asimov1983-12paperback192Open Library ↗
I, RobotIsaac Asimov1996paperback249Open Library ↗
I, Robot1991-12paperback272Open Library ↗
I, Robot2004paperback272Open Library ↗
I, RobotIsaac Asimov2004-06paperback272Open Library ↗
I, Robot. Short Stories.June 1, 2000paperback104Open Library ↗
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