I, Robot
- Earliest known edition
- 1950
- Selected edition
- hardcover
- Pages in this edition
- 218
- English editions
- 44 ↗
1950 · Doubleday & Company, Inc. · eng
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From the catalogue
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
--front flap
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Edition explorer
44 English editions in this snapshot. Showing up to 12 per page.
| Edition | Publication | Format | Pages | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| I, Robot | October 1999 | other | 304 | Open Library ↗ |
| I, robotIsaac Asimov. | 2004 | unknown | 224 | Open Library ↗ |
| I, Robot | May 12, 1981 | unknown | 192 | Open Library ↗ |
| I, RobotIsaac Asimov. | 1996 | unknown | 249 | Open Library ↗ |
| I, Robot | 1974 | unknown | 206 | Open Library ↗ |
| I, Robot | 1963 | unknown | 218 | Open Library ↗ |
| I, robotby Isaac Asimov. | 1963 | unknown | 218 | Open Library ↗ |
| I, Robot. | 1950 | unknown | 192 | Open Library ↗ |
| I, robotby Isaac Asimov. | 1950 | unknown | 218 | Open Library ↗ |
| I, robotIsaac Asimov. | 1950 | unknown | 253 | Open Library ↗ |
| I, Robotby Isaac Asimov | 1950 | unknown | 218 | Open Library ↗ |
| I, Robot | 2018 | unknown | — | Open Library ↗ |
Discovery notes
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Source subject: Artificial intelligence View evidence ↗
Source subject: human-robot relations View evidence ↗