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Author:	Isaac Asimov
Title:	The Complete Robot
Publisher:	Harper Voyager
Country:	UK
Date:	17 May 2018
Format:	Paperback
Class Number:	813.54
Genre:	Fiction, Science Fiction
ISBN13 / Barcode:	9780008277819
First Published:	1982
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Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	2 Own
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'B' format, 611pp Compilation of 31 short stories, mostly from I,Robot and Rest of the Robots, plus some 'bonus' stories. Part of a rebranding campaign of Asimov's novels, with new covers. Previous paperback ed. was the 'A' format in 1983.

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Magic Marmalade 2nd Jun 2020		If only people operated by those same three laws! :)



HelBic 2nd Jun 2020		I read just about every piece of Sci-Fi he wrote, all of the robot series and indeed I bought book when I encountered it many years ago. As a teenager he was top of my list. One of my all time favourite Sci-Fi authors and of course, his Three Laws of Robotics are now canon for almost ANY robot story.



Magic Marmalade 1st Jun 2020		Review This ought to be on any modern national curriculum - *A Must Read!* I came across a newer edition of this in a charity shop last year, and thinking that Isaac Asimov was one of those I must get a around to reading, due to his name keeping on popping up in any discussion of sci-fi, or real world artificial Intelligence / robotics of the modern / coming age. And it does not disappoint, not due to any special gift of language Asimov had, or even his ability to spin a rip roaring yarn - there's no real poetry here - But because of the ideas presented in these stories... Prescient, and increasingly relevant. What these are, is not so much stories, as scenarios based around different aspects of robotics / AI, in which he works through how they work... if they work, where the problems are, and the benefits are of Robots in these scenario contexts. To give them collectively their proper, original name... these are speculative fictions. What ifs: What if a politician were sneakily replaced with a robot replica... would anyone notice the difference? (Chuckle) ...Actually they would... when the situation starts inexplicably improving... leading to the moral considerations of this situation: Run by robots?!!! .... deceiving the public... even when it's for their own good and benefit? Yikes! Or another, where a chain of mining robots who share a collective mind start going a bit wobbly... ....Or my favourite: ...Where a robotics engineer has to send a complex AI robot to go mining on Mercury, too hot and inhospitable for humans, but the robot starts leaping about and having fun on Mercury, not doing what was wanted... ... turns out, the engineer decided to place the consciousness of his disabled locked-in son in the robot. Most of these stories utilise a handful of the same characters to set the scenarios against: Two hapless robotics engineers, who have to figure out what's going wrong all the time, and a senior AI / robotics scientist, who is more the Yoda of AI, and does most of the theorising, philosophising and resolving - a woman too... so some very early feminism there from Mr Asimov! - So while this is logical theorising as story-telling, they are engaging, fun, and very interesting. The basis of some good classroom discussion I'd have thought, around a subject more relevant to modern students than: Of Mice and Men, or Lord Of The Flies <This last is kind of redundant, as we seem to have been living it for real now for quite some time :).... :( So maybe time to ditch some of yesterday's fusty old curriculum staples, and look more to this kind of thing. ...And even if you are not a student... read it anyway... you may have to know what it's got to say sometime soon! 5 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?



ppint. 12th Jun 2018		isbn13 and bar-code number13 cannot disagree by one digit internally and *not* give a different final (checksum) digit. Xcorrection alredafdy smubfitzzzedt!

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