I, Robot and The Rest of the Robots vs. The Complete Robot
Jason Brice
I have copies of I, Robot and The Rest of the Robots, and I'm wondering if
there are any stories not collected in these two volumes that are included in
The Complete Robot.
If somebody would be so kind as to list the stories in the order they appear
in The Complete Robot I'd really appreciate it.
Thanks so much,
Jason Brice
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Aragorn
same reason?
Intro
A Boy's Best Friend
Sally
Someday
Point of View
Think!
True Love
Robot AL-76 Goes Astray
Victory Unintentional
Stanger in Paradise
Light Verse
Sergreationist
Robbie
Let's Get Together
Mirror Image
The Tercentenary Incident
First Law
Runaround
Reason
Catch that Rabbit
Kiar!
Satisfaction Guaranteed
Lenny
Galley Slave
Little Lost Robot
Risk
Esacpe!
Evidence
The Inevitable Conflict
Feminie Intuition
...That Thou Art Mindful of Him
The Bicentennial Man
There ya go.
Oh, yeah. Buy it anyway :)
Aragorn
Jason Brice
wrote:
>Np problem, my friend. Can you post the stories in Rest of for the
>same reason?
Sure -
Here are the stories in the earlier I, Robot:
Intro
Robbie
Runaround
Reason
Catch That Rabbit
Liar!
Little Lost Robot
Escape!
Evidence
The Evitable Conflict
Here are the stories in The Rest Of The Robots:
Intro
Robot AL-76 Goes Astray
Victory Unintentional
First Law
Let's Get Together
Satisfaction Guaranteed
Risk
Lenny
Galley Slave
So, therefore, the following stories from The Complete Robot aren't in the
original collections:
TCR's Intro
A Boy's Best Friend
Sally
Someday
Point of View
Think!
True Love
Stanger in Paradise
Light Verse
Sergreationist
Let's Get Together
Mirror Image
The Tercentenary Incident
Feminie Intuition
...That Thou Art Mindful of Him
The Bicentennial Man
Quite a few! Anyone have a clue if the above stories are available other than
in The Complete Robot?
Mike Donovan
published up until that time. The is the story in _I, Robot_ about the
reporter interviewing Susan Calvin about her life which links all the other
stories together; this is not in _The Complete Robot_. Probobly because of
stories about her that were written after _I, Robot_. One of the stories in
_The Complete Robot_, "Feminine Intuition," contradicts _I, Robot_ in that it
has Peter Bogert still alive and running US Robots after Susan Calvin has
retired. In the linking story, she says he is dead. There are also the Robot
Novels, but these of course wouldn't fit into a short story collection. There
are stories about robots written after _The Complete Robot_ that apear in other
collections. Here is a list of the stories you don't have that are in books I
own:
_Robot Dreams Contains_:
Sally
Light Verse
as well as its own introduction and title story
_Robot Visions_:
Someday
Think!
Sergreationist
Mirror Image
Feminine Intuition
The Bicentennial Man
as well as its own even better introduction, title story and many essays
speculating on how robots might be used in society and few that are optomistic
about the internet.
The short stories, "Robot Dreams," and "Robot Visions" are not contained in
_The Complete Robot_. The books are illustrated by Ralph McQuarrie. Asimov
got the idea and title for the first book's cover story when he saw the picture
that was to become its cover illustration showing a robot asleep. It parodies
a 19th century painting showing a woman asleep.
_The Complete Stories Volume I_:
Someday
Sally
Sergreationist
_The Complete Stories Volume II_:
Let's Get Together
Mirror Image
The Tercentenary Incident
Feminine Intuition
Light Verse
...That Thou Art Mindful of Him
The Bicentennial Man
The Tercentenary Incident
_Gold: The Final Science Fiction Collection_ contains his last robot story,
"Cal," which itself contains an Azazel story attributed to the title robot.
"Mirror Image" involves Lije Bailey and R. Daneel Olivaw from the Robot Novels.
It is set between _The Naked Sun_ and _The Robots of Dawn_. I first came
across it in _The Best of Isaac Asimov_(originally published 1973, my copy was
printed 1985). I have seen it many other places.
Mike Donovan
Jason Brice
>_The Complete Robot_ is mistitled.
<snip terrifically compiled information!>
Thanks for the rundown, Mike. Very comprehansive! Now I have a whole bunch of
new books I want to track down!
Today I picked up The Robots Of Dawn, so I guess I have to wait til I find
copies of the first two novels before I can read that one.
On an semi-related topic, is there a resource for academic papers written on
Asimov, and particularly the Robots stories?
Edward Seiler
jas...@es.co.nz (Jason Brice) wrote:
If it's a mere list of books and articles about Asimov and his works
that you want, you'll find one at
<http://www.asimovonline.com/oldsite/books_on_asimov.html>. Only titles
are listed there right now, not descriptions of their contents.
Two of the most scholarly works about Asimov's writing are _Isaac
Asimov_, edited by Joseph D. Olander and Martin H. Greenberg (Taplinger,
1977), and _Isaac Asimov: The Foundations of Science Fiction_, by James
Gunn (revised and updated edition, Scarecrow Press, 1996). The former
has an essay by Patricia S. Warrick titled "Ethical Evolving Artificial
Intelligence: Asimov's Computers and Robots". Gunn's book has a chapter
titled "Variations on a Robot", and another chapter titled "The Robot
Novels".
--
Ed Seiler "All knowledge is of itself of some value.
There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable,
that I would not rather know it than not."
-- Samuel Johnson
Fltadmankh
Asimov and his estate you have the following.
The Second Experiment, the Last Immortal, Murder at the Galactic Writers
Society and Norby the Robots by Janet Asimov (Isaac helped with the Norby's).
There are also the Robot City, Robots and Aliens, & Robots in Time. Some in
Foundations Friends, The Caliban Trilogy, the new Robot Mystery trilogy by
Tiedemann, The I-Bots (which is in an illustrated history, comic books and a
novel called TIME WAS).
I believe thats all of them. Now I know some do not consider some of these
canon because they are not written by Asimov himself, and some are not the
greatest. But I personally have read them just to read everything I can get my
hands on dealing with Asimov robots. Whether he personally wrote them or not.
If I missed any please let me know so I can see if I have them or not. I
still have to get the complete robot, I will be printing this contents lists to
see if I have all of the stories then I only need it for the stuff about
Asimov.
R. JAY
Mike Donovan
>Robots in Time
Run while you still can from the Robots in Time series. The first one is, as I
said in a post a little over a month ago, the worst thing with Asimov's name on
the cover that it has been my folly to read. Stay away from it at all costs.
Mike Donovan