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Robot series (Asimov)

Index Robot series (Asimov)

The Robot series is a series of 38 science fiction short stories and 5 novels by American writer Isaac Asimov, featuring positronic robots. [1]

82 relations: Alexander C. Irvine, Allegory of the Cave, Ann Firbank, Beatrix Lehmann, Before the Golden Age, Bicentennial Man (film), Book series, Brent Barrett, Bridget Moynahan, Canon (fiction), Cold War, David Collings, Elijah Baley, Foundation and Empire, Foundation series, Foundation's Friends, Galactic Empire (series), Hal Clement, Harlan Ellison, Harry Harrison (writer), I, Robot, I, Robot (film), Isaac Asimov, Isaac Asimov's Caliban, Isaac Asimov's Inferno, Isaac Asimov's Robot City, Isaac Asimov's Robots and Aliens, Isaac Asimov's Robots in Time, Isaac Asimov's Utopia, Jeff Vintar, John Carson (actor), Let's Get Together (short story), Liar! (short story), Little Lost Robot, Locked-room mystery, Mark W. Tiedemann, Maxine Audley, Mickey Zucker Reichert, Mike Resnick, Mirror Image (short story), Mother Earth (novelette), Neil R. Jones, Out of the Unknown, Out of This World (UK TV series), Pamela Sargent, Paul Maxwell, Pebble in the Sky, Peter Cushing, Positronic brain, Poul Anderson, ..., R. Daneel Olivaw, Reason (short story), Robbie (short story), Robert Sheckley, Robin Williams, Robopsychology, Robot, Robot Dreams (short story), Robots (1988 film), Robots and Empire, Roger MacBride Allen, Satisfaction Guaranteed (short story), Science fiction, Screenplay, Sheila Finch, Short story, Spacer (Asimov), Susan Calvin, The Caves of Steel, The Complete Robot, The Early Asimov, The Evitable Conflict, The Naked Sun, The Positronic Man, The Robots of Dawn, The Stars, Like Dust, Three Laws of Robotics, Trantor, Victory Unintentional, Warner Bros., Will Smith, 20th Century Fox. Expand index (32 more) »

Alexander C. Irvine

Alexander Christian Irvine (born March 22, 1969) is an American fantasy and science fiction writer.

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Allegory of the Cave

The Allegory of the Cave, or Plato's Cave, was presented by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work Republic (514a–520a) to compare "the effect of education (παιδεία) and the lack of it on our nature".

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Ann Firbank

Ann Firbank (born 9 January 1933) is a veteran actress of film, television, and stage whose career extends from 1956.

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Beatrix Lehmann

Beatrix Alice Lehmann (1 July 1903 – 31 July 1979) was a British actress, theatre director, writer and novelist.

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Before the Golden Age

Before the Golden Age: A Science Fiction Anthology of the 1930s is an anthology of 25 science fiction stories from 1930s pulp magazines, edited by American science fiction writer Isaac Asimov.

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Bicentennial Man (film)

Bicentennial Man is a 1999 Canadian-American science fiction comedy-drama film starring Robin Williams, Sam Neill, Embeth Davidtz (in a dual role), Wendy Crewson, and Oliver Platt.

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Book series

A book series is a sequence of books having certain characteristics in common that are formally identified together as a group.

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Brent Barrett

Brent Barrett (born 28 February 1957) is an American actor and tenor who is mostly known for his work within American theatre.

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Bridget Moynahan

Bridget Moynahan (born Kathryn Bridget Moynahan; April 28, 1971) is an American actress and model, best known for her role in the police drama Blue Bloods.

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Canon (fiction)

In fiction, canon is the material accepted as officially part of the story in the fictional universe of that story.

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Cold War

The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its satellite states) and powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others).

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David Collings

David Collings (born 4 June 1940) is an English actor.

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Elijah Baley

Elijah "Lije" Baley is a fictional character in Isaac Asimov's ''Robot'' series.

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Foundation and Empire

Foundation and Empire is a science fiction novel by American writer Isaac Asimov originally published by Gnome Press in 1952.

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Foundation series

The Foundation series is a science fiction book series written by American author Isaac Asimov.

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Foundation's Friends

Foundation's Friends, Stories in Honor of Isaac Asimov is a 1989 book written in honor of science fiction author Isaac Asimov, in the form of an anthology of short stories set in Asimov's universes, particularly the Robot/Empire/Foundation universe.

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Galactic Empire (series)

The Galactic Empire series (also called the Empire novels or trilogy) is a science fiction sequence of three of Isaac Asimov's earliest novels, and extended by one short story.

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Hal Clement

Harry Clement Stubbs (May 30, 1922 – October 29, 2003), better known by the pen name Hal Clement, was an American science fiction writer and a leader of the hard science fiction subgenre.

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Harlan Ellison

Harlan Jay Ellison (May 27, 1934 – June 28, 2018) was an American writer, known for his prolific and influential work in New Wave speculative fiction, and for his outspoken, combative personality.

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Harry Harrison (writer)

Harry Max Harrison (born Henry Maxwell Dempsey; March 12, 1925 – August 15, 2012) was an American science fiction author, known for his character The Stainless Steel Rat and for his novel Make Room! Make Room! (1966).

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I, Robot

I, Robot is a fixup of science fiction short stories or essays by American writer Isaac Asimov.

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I, Robot (film)

I, Robot (stylized as i) is a 2004 American science fiction action film directed by Alex Proyas.

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Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University.

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Isaac Asimov's Caliban

Isaac Asimov's Caliban (1993) is a science fiction novel by American writer Roger MacBride Allen, set in Isaac Asimov's Robot/Empire/Foundation universe.

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Isaac Asimov's Inferno

Isaac Asimov's Inferno (1994) is a science fiction novel by American writer Roger MacBride Allen, set in Isaac Asimov's Robot/Empire/Foundation universe.

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Isaac Asimov's Robot City

Isaac Asimov's Robot City is a series of novels written by various authors and loosely connected to Isaac Asimov's ''Robot'' series.

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Isaac Asimov's Robots and Aliens

Isaac Asimov's Robots and Aliens is a series of novels written by various authors and loosely connected to Isaac Asimov's ''Robot'' series.

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Isaac Asimov's Robots in Time

Isaac Asimov's Robots in Time is a series of six science fiction novels featuring Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics.

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Isaac Asimov's Utopia

Isaac Asimov's Utopia (1996) is a science fiction novel by American writer Roger MacBride Allen, set in Isaac Asimov's Robot/Empire/Foundation universe.

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Jeff Vintar

Jeff Vintar (born in Oak Park, Illinois) is an American screenwriter.

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John Carson (actor)

John Derek Carson-Parker (28 February 1927 – 5 November 2016), known as John Carson, was an English actor known for his appearances in film and television.

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Let's Get Together (short story)

"Let's Get Together" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov.

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Liar! (short story)

"Liar!" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov.

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Little Lost Robot

"Little Lost Robot" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov.

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Locked-room mystery

The locked-room mystery is a subgenre of detective fiction in which a crime — almost always murder — is committed in circumstances under which it was seemingly impossible for the perpetrator to commit the crime or evade detection in the course of getting in and out of the crime scene.

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Mark W. Tiedemann

Mark W. Tiedemann (born 1954 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American science fiction and detective fiction author.

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Maxine Audley

Maxine Audley (29 April 1923 – 23 July 1992) was an English theatre and film actress.

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Mickey Zucker Reichert

Mickey Zucker Reichert (born as Miriam Susan Zucker in 1962) is an American fantasy fiction author of several best selling novels.

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Mike Resnick

Michael Diamond Resnick (born March 5, 1942) is an American science fiction writer under the name Mike Resnick.

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Mirror Image (short story)

"Mirror Image" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov, originally published in the May 1972 issue Analog Science Fiction and Fact, and collected in The Best of Isaac Asimov (1973), The Complete Robot (1982), Robot Visions (1990), and The Complete Stories, Volume 2 (1992).

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Mother Earth (novelette)

"Mother Earth" is a science fiction novelette by American writer Isaac Asimov.

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Neil R. Jones

Neil Ronald Jones (May 29, 1909 – February 15, 1988) was an American author who worked for the state of New York.

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Out of the Unknown

Out of the Unknown is a British television science fiction anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and broadcast on BBC2 in four series between 1965 and 1971.

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Out of This World (UK TV series)

Out of This World is a British science fiction anthology television series made by ABC Television and broadcast in 1962.

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Pamela Sargent

Pamela Sargent (born March 20, 1948) is an American feminist, science fiction author, and editor.

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Paul Maxwell

Paul Maxwell (12 November 192119 December 1991) was a Canadian actor who worked mostly in British cinema and television, in which he was usually cast as American characters.

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Pebble in the Sky

Pebble in the Sky is a science fiction novel by American writer Isaac Asimov, published in 1950.

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Peter Cushing

Peter Wilton Cushing (26 May 191311 August 1994) was an English actor best known for his roles in the Hammer Productions horror films of the 1950s, '60s, and '70s, as well as his performance as Grand Moff Tarkin in Star Wars (1977).

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Positronic brain

A positronic brain is a fictional technological device, originally conceived by science fiction writer Isaac Asimov.

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Poul Anderson

Poul William Anderson (November 25, 1926 – July 31, 2001) was an American science fiction author who began his career in the 1940s and continued to write into the 21st century.

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R. Daneel Olivaw

R.

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Reason (short story)

"Reason" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov, first published in the April 1941 issue of Astounding Science Fiction and collected in I, Robot (1950), The Complete Robot (1982), and Robot Visions (1990).

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Robbie (short story)

"Robbie" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov.

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Robert Sheckley

Robert Sheckley (July 17, 1928 – December 9, 2005) was an American writer.

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Robin Williams

Robin McLaurin Williams (July 21, 1951 – August 11, 2014) was an American actor and comedian.

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Robopsychology

Robopsychology is the study of the personalities and behavoiur of intelligent machines.

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Robot

A robot is a machine—especially one programmable by a computer— capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically.

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Robot Dreams (short story)

"Robot Dreams" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov exploring the unbalance of robot/human relationships under Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics.

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Robots (1988 film)

Robots is a 1988 Interactive movie directed by Doug Smith and Kim Takal.

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Robots and Empire

Robots and Empire is a science fiction novel by the American author Isaac Asimov and published by Doubleday Books in 1985.

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Roger MacBride Allen

Roger MacBride Allen (born September 26, 1957) is an American science fiction author.

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Satisfaction Guaranteed (short story)

"Satisfaction Guaranteed" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov, originally published in the April 1951 issue of Amazing Stories, and included in the collections Earth Is Room Enough (1957), The Rest of the Robots (1964), and The Complete Robot (1982).

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Science fiction

Science fiction (often shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, spaceflight, time travel, and extraterrestrial life.

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Screenplay

A screenplay or script is a written work by screenwriters for a film, video game, or television program.

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Sheila Finch

Sheila Finch (born 1935) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy.

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Short story

A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a "single effect" or mood, however there are many exceptions to this.

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Spacer (Asimov)

Spacers were the fictional first humans to emigrate to space in Isaac Asimov's Foundation and related Robot and Empire series.

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Susan Calvin

Dr.

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The Caves of Steel

The Caves of Steel is a novel by American writer Isaac Asimov.

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The Complete Robot

The Complete Robot (1982) is a collection of 31 of the 37 science fiction short stories about robots by American writer Isaac Asimov, written between 1939 and 1977.

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The Early Asimov

The Early Asimov or, Eleven Years of Trying is a 1972 collection of short stories by Isaac Asimov.

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The Evitable Conflict

"The Evitable Conflict" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov.

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The Naked Sun

The Naked Sun is a science fiction novel by American writer Isaac Asimov, the second in his ''Robot'' series.

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The Positronic Man

The Positronic Man is a 1992 novel by Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg, based on Asimov's novelette "The Bicentennial Man".

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The Robots of Dawn

The Robots of Dawn is a "whodunit" science fiction novel by American writer Isaac Asimov, first published in 1983.

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The Stars, Like Dust

The Stars, Like Dust is a 1951 science fiction mystery book by American writer Isaac Asimov.

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Three Laws of Robotics

The Three Laws of Robotics (often shortened to The Three Laws or known as Asimov's Laws) are a set of rules devised by the science fiction author Isaac Asimov.

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Trantor

Trantor is a fictional planet in Isaac Asimov's ''Foundation'' Series and ''Empire'' series of science fiction novels.

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Victory Unintentional

"Victory Unintentional" is a humorous science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov, published in the August 1942 issue of Super Science Stories and included in the collections The Rest of the Robots (1964) and The Complete Robot (1982).

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Warner Bros.

Warner Bros.

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Will Smith

Willard Carroll Smith Jr. (born September 25, 1968) is an American actor, producer, rapper, comedian, and songwriter.

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20th Century Fox

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, doing business as 20th Century Fox, is an American film studio currently owned by 21st Century Fox.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_series_(Asimov)

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