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Title: Robot Visions by Isaac Asimov, Ralph McQuarrie ISBN: 0-451-45064-7 Publisher: Roc Pub. Date: 06 July, 2004 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: One of two great collections of Asimov's shorts
Comment: Robot Visions and Robot Dreams would not be complete without each other. Robot Visions is actually the better of the two, showing a little more variety in the stories and a little more creativity (as if you could imagine Isaac Asimov being anything but creative). If you like stories about robots, these are the stories that every other writer wishes they thought of first.
Rating: 5
Summary: A fine collection
Comment: Like its companion _Robot Dreams_, this collection is in part an excuse to feature the haunting illustrations of Ralph McQuarrie and partly a well-chosen selection of the Good Doctor's short writings.
However, unlike _Robot Dreams_, this one really does concentrate on robots. It also includes a good chunk of Asimov's nonfiction on the subject -- and (unlike Heinlein) Asimov wrote very good nonfiction too.
Two things you should know before you buy this:
(1) It includes most of the contents of _I, Robot_, but not all -- and it also doesn't include the frame story (the interview with Susan Calvin). So even if you buy this, you'll still have to get _I, Robot_ if you don't already have it.
(2) It includes the robot stories that _aren't_ part of _I, Robot_ -- among them the very best Susan Calvin story, "Galley Slave".
At any rate, no Asimov fan will want to be without this one.
Rating: 3
Summary: The Acidic Susan Calvin
Comment: I like Asimov generally, but Susan Calvin has got to be his worst protagonist -- she's arch, acerbic, narrow-minded, and rarely bearable in any form. Its a shame she figures in so much of his work. Even so, there are some good stories in this book, particularly 'The Bicentennial Man,' which manages to have scope and sustain a gentle, forlorn quality throughout.
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Title: Robot Dreams (Remembering Tomorrow) by Isaac Asimov ISBN: 0441731546 Publisher: Ace Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1994 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: I, Robot by ISAAC ASIMOV ISBN: 0553294385 Publisher: Spectra Pub. Date: 01 November, 1991 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Robots of Dawn by Isaac Asimov ISBN: 0553299492 Publisher: Spectra Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1994 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov ISBN: 0553293400 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 December, 1991 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Naked Sun by Isaac Asimov ISBN: 0553293397 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 December, 1991 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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