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

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 Bicentennial Man, starring Robin Williams

In the twenty-first century the invention of the positronic brain revolutionizes life on Earth with the creation of the complex Robot. But for the...

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reviewed on Thursday 24 July 2008

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 together as if Dr Susan Calvin is telling them to a reporter (the narrator) in the 21st century. Though the stories can be read separately, they all share the common theme of interaction between human...

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reviewed on Thursday 24 July 2008

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, in countless robot stories, strengthened his grasp on what the three laws of robotics can give to a story. It's still a murder story and the main character is still Elijah Baley, but the much matured ...

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reviewed on Sunday 03 June 2001

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 characters and their world and on the negative side is the lack of freshness and the fact that you already know the main characters and their world. The Naked Sun mostly gets around this by placing B...

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reviewed on Saturday 02 June 2001

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 of Steel is creeping up on it's own 50. anniversary (it was published in 1954). The Caves of Steel is in my eyes Asimov's first go at a full length novel where Asimov does what Asimov does best, whic...

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reviewed on Friday 01 June 2001