Robot Series

by Isaac Asimov

Robot Series is a collection of novels and short stories that feature positronic robots, written by Isaac Asimov.

There a number of novels, and collections of short stories in the series, and they are almost all part of the same universe as the Empire Series and later the Foundation series.

Most of these novels chronologically appear 20 thousand years before the empire series (prior to the foundation of the Galactic Empire) and the last novel, Robots and Empire, tie the two series together, explaining how the worlds that form the Empire were originally settled.

Also explained is how the Earth became Radioactive (first mentioned in Pebble in the Sky, Asimovs first novel and influenced by the short story "Proxima Centauri" by Murray Leinster).

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    The Bicentennial Man

    The Bicentennial Man

    by Isaac Asimov

    This is a collection of 11 science fiction short stories and a poem by Isaac Asimov. The Bicentennial Man features as one of the stories and was later expanded into a novel called The Positronic Man which was co written with Robert Silverberg. The Positronic Man formed the basis of the film Bicen...

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    reviewed on Thursday 24 July 2008

    I Robot

    I Robot

    by Isaac Asimov

    I, Robot is a collection by Isaac asimov of nine of his short science fiction stories, first published in 1950. The stories originally appeared in the American Science Fiction magazines of the time, Super Science Stories and Astounding Science Fiction between 1940 and 1950. The stories are woven ...

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    reviewed on Thursday 24 July 2008

    The Robots of Dawn

    The Robots of Dawn

    by Isaac Asimov

    The Robots of Dawn is the third volume in the Robot series by Isaac Asimov

    Written nearly thirty years after The Naked Sun this, the third volume in the Elijah Baley series, is one of Asimovs greatest accomplishments. His writing has matured a lot in those thirty years and he has, ...

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    reviewed on Sunday 03 June 2001

    The Naked Sun

    The Naked Sun

    by Isaac Asimov

    The Naked Sun is the second volume in the Robot series by Isaac Asimov.

    This is the second book in the Elijah Baley series. The simple fact that it's the number two in a series, gives it a couple of advantages and a couple of disadvantages. On the plus side is that we know the main...

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    reviewed on Saturday 02 June 2001

    The Caves of Steel

    The Caves of Steel

    by Isaac Asimov

    The Caves of Steel is a classic science fiction novel by Isaac Asimov and could be considered the first in the Robot series.

    It has been about twenty years since I read this book first and ten years since I read it last. I've grown older and hopefully wiser since then and The Caves...

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    reviewed on Friday 01 June 2001