The Complete Robot - Jacob's Dragon Horde

English language

Published March 1, 1982

ISBN:: 978-0-385-17724-5

(1 review)

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. Most of the stories had been previously collected in the books I, Robot and The Rest of the Robots, while four had previously been uncollected and the rest had been scattered across five other anthologies. They share a theme of the interaction of humans, robots and morality, and put together tell a larger story of Asimov's fictional history of robotics. The stories are grouped into categories.

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Tim reviewed The Complete Robot by Isaac Asimov

Amazing and Astounding

5 stars

Starting in 1939 with the story "Robbie" and going through the 50's and beyond this volume is robots and more robots.
Most have the 40's-50's feel and sound. Takes a bit to get used to but that caused me many smiles. There was a group of stories featuring two robot testers Powell and Donovan. I pictured them as a mid century comedy duo. Good times. Next was 10 stories featuring Susan Calvin The Robot Psyco whatever for US Robots. And of course the only woman is a sea of men. So I pictured my Mother as her. Which doesn't help anyone reading this but now it's official. These were the real highlight stories for me, the favorite being Feminine Intuition. Anyway 5 Stars for sure.