The Complete Robot is the definitive anthology of Asimov’s stunning visions of a robotic future…
In these stories, Isaac Asimov creates the Three Laws of Robotics and ushers in the Robot Age: when Earth is ruled by mastermachines and when robots are more human than mankind.
As well as TN-3 (Tony), AL-76 and other robots, the stories feature the staff of US Robots and Mechanical Men Inc., and in particular the chief robot-psychologist, the steely Dr Susan Calvin who is in many ways more robot-like than her subjects.
The Complete Robot is the ultimate collection of timeless, amazing and amusing robot stories from the greatest science fiction writer of all time, offering golden insights into robot thought processes. Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics were programmed into real computers thirty years ago at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology – with surprising results.
Readers of today still have many surprises in store…
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Isaac Asimov - Second Foundation
One man understood the shifting patterns of the inhabitated cosmos. This was Hari Seldon, the last great scientist of the First Empire. The mathematics of psychohistory enabled Seldon to predict the collapse of the Empire and the onset of an era of chaos and war. To restore civilization in the shortest possible time, Seldon set up two Foundations.
The First was established on Terminus in the full daylight of publicity. But the Second, 'at the other end of the galaxy,' took shape behind a veil of total silence. Because the Second Foundation guards the laws of psychohistory, which are valid only so long as they remain secret.
When the First Foundation was conquered by a force Seldon had not foreseen - the overwhelming power of a single individual, a mutant called the Mule - the Second Foundation was forced to reveal its existance, and infinitely worse, a portion of its power. but so far its location, its most closely guarded secret of all, has been kept hidden. So far. The Mule and the remnants of the First Foundation will do anything to discover it.
This is the story of the Second Foundation.
Isaac Asimov - The Caves of Steel
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!
Isaac Asimov - The Robots of Dawn
A puzzling case of roboticide sends New York Detective Elijah Baley on an intense search for a murderer. Armed with his own instincts, his quirky logic, and the immutable Three Laws of Robotics, Baley is determined to solve the case. But can anything prepare a simple Earthman for the psychological complexities of a world where a beautiful woman can easily have fallen in love with an all-too-human robot...?
Isaac Asimov - Foundation and Empire
One man understood the shifting patterns of the inhabitated cosmos. This was Hari Seldon, the last great scientist of the First Empire. The mathematics of psychohistory enabled Seldon to predict the collapse of the Empire and the onset of an era of chaos and war. To restore civilization in the shortest possible time, Seldon set up two Foundations.
The First was established on Terminus in the full daylight of publicity. But the Second, 'at the other end of the galaxy,' took shape behind a veil of total silence. Because the Second Foundation guards the laws of psychohistory, which are valid only so long as they remain secret.
When the First Foundation was conquered by a force Seldon had not foreseen - the overwhelming power of a single individual, a mutant called the Mule - the Second Foundation was forced to reveal its existance, and infinitely worse, a portion of its power. but so far its location, its most closely guarded secret of all, has been kept hidden. So far. The Mule and the remnants of the First Foundation will do anything to discover it.
This is the story of the Second Foundation.
Isaac Asimov - The Foundation Trilogy
A THOUSAND-YEAR EPIC, A GALACTIC STRUGGLE, A MONUMENTAL WORK IN THE ANNALS OF SCIENCE FICTION FOUNDATION begins a new chapter in the story of man's future. As the Old Empire crumbles into barbarism throughout the million worlds of the galaxy, Hari Seldon and his band of psychologists must create a new entity, the Foundation-dedicated to art, science, and technology-as the beginning of a new empire. FOUNDATION AND EMPIRE describes the mighty struggle for power amid the chaos of the stars in which man stands at the threshold of a new enlightened life which could easily be destroyed by the old forces of barbarism. SECOND FOUNDATION follows the Seldon Plan after the First Empire's defeat and describes its greatest threat-a dangerous mutant strain gone wild, which produces a mind capable of bending men's wills, directing their thoughts, reshaping their desires, and destroying the universe.
Isaac Asimov - The End of Eternity
Andrew Harlan is an Eternal, a man whose job it is to range through past and present Centuries, monitoring and, where necessary, altering Time's myriad cause-and-effect relationships. But when Harlan meets and falls for a non-Eternal woman, he seeks to use the awesome powers and techniques of the Eternals to twist time for his own purposes, so that he and his love can survive together.
Arthur C. Clarke - Rendezvous With Rama
Rama is a vast alien spacecraft that enters the Solar System. A perfect cylinder some fifty kilometres long, spinning rapidly, racing through space, Rama is a technological marvel, a mysterious and deeply enigmatic alien artifact. It is Mankind's first visitor from the stars and must be investigated...
Arthur C. Clarke - Gentry Lee - The Garden of Rama
By the twenty-third century Earth has already had two encounters with massive, mysterious robotic spacecraft from beyond our solar system - the incontestable proof of an alien technology that far exceeds our own. Now three human cosmonauts are trapped aboard a labyrinthine Raman vessel, where it will take all of their physical and mental resources to survive. Only twelve years into their journey do these intrepid travelers learn their destination and face their ultimate challenge: a rendezvous with a Raman base - and the unseen architechts of their galactic home. The cosmonauts have given up family friends, and possessions to live a new kind of life. But the answers that await them at the Raman Node will require an even greater sacrifice - if humanity is indeed ready to learn the awe-inspiring truth.
Isaac Asimov - Robots and Empire
Gladia Delmarre's homeworld, the Spacer planet Solaria, has been abandoned - by its human population. Countless robots remain there. And when traders from Settler worlds attempt to salvage them, the robots of Solaria turn to killing, in defiance of the Three Laws of Robotics. Long ago, Gladia's robots Daneel and Giskard played a vital role in opening the worlds beyond the Solar system to Settlers from Earth. Now the conscience-stricken robots are faced with an even greater challenge. Either the sacred Three Laws of Robotics are in ruins - or a new, superior Law must be established to bring peace to the galaxy. With Madam Gladia and D.G. Baley, the captain of the Settler traders and a descendant of the robots' friend Elijah Baley, Daneel and Giskard travel to the robot stronghold of Solaria, where they uncover a sinister Spacer plot to destroy Earth itself.
Isaac Asimov - The Foundation Novels
One of the great masterworks of science fiction, the Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov are unsurpassed for their unique blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive worldbuilding. The story of our future begins with the history of Foundation and its greatest psychohistorian: Hari Seldon.
Isaac Asimov - Foundation's Edge
At last, the costly and bitter war between the two Foundations had come to an end. The scientists of the First Foundation had proved victorious; and now they return to Hari Seldon's long-established plan to build a new Empire on the ruins of the old. But rumours persist that the Second Foundation is not destroyed after all - and that its still-defiant survivors are preparing their revenge. now two exiled citizens of th Foundation - a renegade Councilman and a doddering historian - set out in search of the mythical planet Earth... and proof that the Second Foundation still exists.
Meanwhile someone - or something - outside of both Foundations seems to be orchestrating events to suit its own ominous purpose. Soon representatives of both the First and Second Foundations will find themselves racing toward a mysterious world called Gaia and a final, shocking destiny at the very end of the universe!
Isaac Asimov - Foundation and Earth
All records of Earth have been removed systematically from the libraries of Foundation worlds. Now Councilman Golan Trevize and Professor Janov Pelorat traverse the galaxy in search of humanity's ancestral planet. On words beyond the Foundation's influence, superstition and taboo shround the subject of their quest. To name Earth is to utter an obscenity!
Fortunately, the space travellers find allies - and Pelorat finds a lover named Bliss - among the telepaths of the planet Gaia. As they near their destination, Bliss picks up thought waves of intelligent beings. What she cannot tell is whether or not those beings are human.
Isaac Asimov - Asimov teljes Alapítvány - Birodalom - Robot univerzuma I.
Az emberiség jövőjének húsz évezrednyi történelme elevenedik meg a most induló sorozat lapjain. Isaac Asimov párját ritkító magabiztossággal vezet bennünket végig monumentális jövővízióján: a Föld pusztulásának, a Galaktikus Birodalom összeomlásának és az Alapítványok tündöklésének vászna előtt emberek, robotok, mutánsok és bolygólények dolgoznak és harcolnak sorsunk irányításáért és végzetünk beteljesítéséért. Asimov eredetileg majdnem húsz kötetre rúgó Alapítvány-, Birodalom- és Robot történetei új formában kerülnek most az Olvasó kezébe: összegyűjtve, hiánytalanul, történeti időrendi sorrendbe szedve, egy 5 könyvből álló sorozat formájában.
A művekkel most ismerkedők és az Asimov-barát gyűjtők számára egyaránt meglepetés lehet a kötetek következetes szerkesztése. Egységes lektorálással és terminológiával, történeti dátumokkal ellátott novellákkal és regényekkel, lábjegyzetekkel és kereszthivatkozásokkal, átfogó kronológiával, valamint az Asimov halála után írt, folytatásokra való utalásokkal a sorozat világviszonylatban is példátlan emléket állít a néhai írónak és ma is élő világának.
Arthur C. Clarke - The Songs of Distant Earth
Just a few islands in a planetwide ocean, Thalassa was a veritable paradise-home to one of the small colonies founded centuries before by robot Mother Ships when the Sun had gone nova and mankind had fled Earth. Mesmerized by the beauty of Thalassa and overwhelmed by its vast resources, the colonists lived an idyllic existence, unaware of the monumental evolutionary event slowly taking place beneath their seas... Then the Magellan arrived in orbit carrying one million refugees from the last, mad days on Earth. And suddenly uncertainty and change had come to the placid paradise that was Thalassa.
Isaac Asimov - Asimov teljes science fiction univerzuma VI.
Az asimovi teljes Alapítvány-Birodalom-Robot univerzumot összefoglaló Encyclopedia Galactica 5 része után sorozatunk további kötetei az író egyéb science fiction írásait gyűjtik egybe.
A folytatás immár új néven (Encyclopedia Galactica Alternativa), de folyamatos sorszámozás mellett fogja össze a szerző közel tucatnyi regényét és száznál is több novelláját, melyek jelentős része mindeddig nem jelent meg magyar nyelven. Az ily módon Asimov teljes SF univerzumát bemutató sorozatunk jelen kötetében három regény található:
A halhatatlanság halála
Nemezis
Az istenek is...
A szerző ez utóbbi munkája elnyerte a science fiction irodalom két legnevesebb elismerését, a Nebula- és a Hugo-díjat is.
Isaac Asimov - Asimov teljes science fiction univerzuma VII.
Az asimovi teljes Alapítvány-Birodalom-Robot univerzumot összefoglaló Encyclopedia Galactica 5. része után sorozatunk további kötetei az író egyéb science fiction írásait gyűjtik egybe.
A folytatás immár új néven ( Encyclopedia Galactica Alternativa ), de folyamatos sorszámozás mellett fogja össze a szerző közel tucatnyi regényét és száznál is több novelláját, melyek jelentős része mindeddig nem jelent meg magyar nyelven. Az ily módon Asimov teljes SF univerzumát bemutató sorozatunk jelen kötete az alábbi hat regény tartalmazza:
Az űrvadász
Az aszteroidák kalózai
A Vénusz óceánjai
A Merkúr óriás Napja
A Jupiter holdjai
A Szaturnusz gyűrűi
Az eredetileg 1952 és 1958 között megjelent űrvadász sorozat bepillantást enged a klasszikus science fiction aranykorába, és bár az eltelt évek során némiképp átalakultak elképzeléseink a Naprendszerről, e regények még mindig betöltik eredeti feladatukat: tudományos ismereteket terjesztve szórakoztatják olvasóikat.
Isaac Asimov - 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.
William Gibson - Neuromancer (angol)
Twenty years ago, it was as if someone turned on a light. The future blazed into existence with each deliberate word that William Gibson laid down. The winner of Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards, Neuromancer didn't just explode onto the science fiction scene--it permeated into the collective consciousness, culture, science, and technology.
Today, there is only one science fiction masterpiece to thank for the term "cyberpunk," for easing the way into the information age and Internet society. Neuromancer's virtual reality has become real. And yet, William Gibson's gritty, sophisticated vision still manages to inspire the minds that lead mankind ever further into the future.
Isaac Asimov - Robert Silverberg - Asimov teljes science fiction univerzuma VIII.
Az asimovi teljes Alapítvány-Birodalom-Robot univerzumot összefoglaló Encyclopedia Galactica S része után sorozatunk további kötetei az író egyéb science fiction irásait gyűjtik egybe. A folytatás immár új néven (Encyclopedia Galactica Alternativa), de folyamatosan sorszámozva fogja össze a szerző közel tucatnyi regényét és száznál is több novelláját, melyek jelentős része mindeddig nem jelent meg magyar nyelven. Az ily módon Asimov teljes SF univerzumát bemutató sorozatunk jelen kötete az alábbi három regényt tartalmazza:
Leszáll az éj
Az idő gyermeke
A pozitron-ember.
Mindhárom történet közös ismertetőjegye, hogy azokat Asimov saját novelláiból - Robert Silverberg, Hugo és Nebula-díjas íróval együttműködve - bővítette regényekké.
Isaac Asimov - Asimov teljes Alapítvány – Birodalom – Robot univerzuma IV.
Az emberiség jövőjének húsz évezrednyi történelme elevenedik meg az Encyclopedia Galactica. Isaac Asimov párját ritkító magabiztossággal vezet bennünket végig monumentális jövővízióján: a Föld pusztulásának, a Galaktikus Birodalom összeomlásának és az Alapítványok tündöklésének vászna előtt emberek, robotok, mutánsok és bolygólények dolgoznak és harcolnak sorsunk irányításáért és végzetünk beteljesítéséért. Asimov eredetileg majdnem húsz kötetre rúgó Alapítvány-, Birodalom- és Robot történetei új formában kerülnek most az Olvasó kezébe: összegyűjtve, hiánytalanul, történeti időrendi sorrendbe szedve, egy 5 könyvből álló sorozat formájában.
A művekkel most ismerkedők és az Asimov-barát gyűjtők számára egyaránt meglepetés lehet a kötetek következetes szerkesztése. Egységes lektorálással és terminológiával, történeti dátumokkal ellátott novellákkal és regényekkel, lábjegyzetekkel és kereszthivatkozásokkal, átfogó kronológiával, valamint az Asimov halála után írt, folytatásokra való utalásokkal a sorozat világviszonylatban is példátlan emléket állít a néhai írónak és ma is élő világának.