The Rest of the Robots (Robots, No. 2) by Isaac Asimov (EPUB)

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ROBOT TONY is the first robot designed to perform domestic duties by the U S Robots and Mechanical Men Corporation. Is it Tony’s fault that the lady of the house where he’s field-tested falls in love with him? ROBOT AL was intended for shipment to a mining outfit on the moon. Instead, he’s loose in the mountains of Virginia…building from scraps of junk his very own, very dangerous disintegrator. Goodbye, Virginia? ROBOT LENNY answers workaday questions in babytalk. So why is Dr Susan Calvin, the world’s top robopsychologist, fascinated by this messed-up specimen of an industrial Robot? THE REST OF THE ROBOTS is the second timeless, amazing and amusing volume of Isaac Asimov’s robot stories, offering golden insights into robot thought processes. Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics were programmed into real computers thirty years ago at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology – with surprising results. Readers of today still have many platinumiridium surprises in store.. THE THREE LAWS OF ROBOTICS: 1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm 2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law 3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law

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Editorial Reviews: From the Publisher THE CLASSIC COLLECTION OF ROBOT STORIES. About the Author Isaac Asimov, world maestro of science fiction, was born in Russia near Smolensk in 1920 and brought to the United States by his parents three years later. He grew up in Brooklyn where he went to grammar school and at the age of eight lie gained his cifizen papers. A remarkable memory helped him finish high school before he was sixteen. He then went on to Columbia University and resolved to become a chemist rather than follow the medical career his father had in mind for him. He graduated in chemistry and after a short spell in the Army he gained his doctorate in 1949 and qualified as an instructor in biochemistry at Boston University School of Medicine where he became Associate Professor in 1955, doing research in nucleic acid. Increasingly, however, the pressures of chemical research conflicted with his aspirations in the literary field, and in 1958 lie retired to full-time authorship while retaining his connection with the University. Asimov’s fantastic career as a science fiction writer began in 1939 with the appearance of a short story, Marooned Off Vesta, in Amazing Stories. Thereafter he becarne a regular contributor to the leading SF magazines of the day including Astounding, Astonishing Stories, Super Science Stories and Galaxy. He won the Hugo Award four times and the Nebula Award once. With nearly five hundred books to his credit and several hundred articles, Asimov’s output was prolific by any standards. Apart from his many world-famous science fiction works, Asimov also wrote highly successful detective mystery stories, a four-volume History of North America, a two-volume Guide to the Bible, a biographical dictionary, encyclopaedias, textbooks and an impressive list of books on many sapects of science, as well as two volumes of autobiography. Isaac Asimov died in 1992 at the age of 72.

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⭐Though I was decades after these stories were first published, I believe one of the reasons I find robots so fascinating in fiction is Asimov. If you love his robots and his ideas about robots, you’ll want this book. However, rereading these stories now, I find the vision of the future to be lacking on several social and economic levels that other authors from that same generation could better imagine. I can still enjoy the studies but some facets of most of the stories made me shake my head.

⭐Oh, how artful, this collection of mechanical man stories. Each one emphasizing some quirk of the 3 Laws of Robotics, they go from human reactions of robots to the result when a customized unit finds itself in another environment…. I recollect: Number AL-76 was not shipped to Lunar Station 17, but Virginia. He asks a man directions, and the man knows this robot has a reward for information leading to its’ capture:’ …Randolph Payne, having correctly diagnosed the abrupt break in his call as being due to general skepticism on the part of the plant official, returned to his shack with a camera. They couldn’t very well argue with a photograph, and he’d be horn-swoggled if he’d show them the real thing before they came across with the cash.AL-76 was busy with affairs of his own. Half of the contents of Payne’s shack was littered over about two acres of ground, and in the middle of it the robot squatted and fooled around with radio tubes, hunks of iron, copper wire, and general junk…’Later, ‘…The Disinto worked, and seventy-five trees, two barns, three cows and the top three quarters of Duckbill Mountain whiffed into rarefied atmosphere. They became, so to speak, one with the snows of yesteryear.’ That, from a junkpile!Asimov’s imagination was vast. Such as EZ-27, assigned to a university library. To read proof. Due to public fears, Robots were few on Earth, although the maker wanted to enlarge the jobs assigned to them. The story is largely told during a court trial concerning EZ-27 and the 3 Laws.Excellent material for youth beginning to read SciFy.

⭐If you are a fan of Asimov’s robot stories you’ll like this book, no doubt about it. About half the stories have “I, Robot” star Susan Calvin as the main character. The others are also pretty good. Another goodie to be found here is 2nd robot novel, “The Naked Sun”.I love most of Asimov’s work, however, the 1st robot novel “Caves of Steel” wasn’t the author at his best.Now if you are not an Asimov fan you should have a little back ground about the universe. Robots are to this world what computers are to our world. When Asimov wrote these stories computers were huge affairs. They took up entire rooms or even wings of buildings! The only way to make them more powerful was to make them bigger.(hence Multivac being the size of a five story building). What is more is that they could only be handled by trained techs not laymen. And really they weren’t good for much more than powerful number crunching.So Asimov’s robots fill the niche in human needs that computer do in todays world. They have Positronic brains not computers that are basically artificial human minds that work much faster than our own. Also, Humans are afraid of them because of all our stories about how creations of man run amuck and try to destroy us, take over the earth and/or enslave us. Ironically this never happens in Asimov’s stories, but you would know it from “I, Robot” the movie!

⭐Classic stories that defined the Robot saga, but are now starting to show their age. The stories were written long enough ago that their future is now (or a while ago), and of course things didn’t entirely turn out the way Asimov predicted. (For example, large computers are cubic kilometers in size; people still smoke a lot, et al.). However, viewed as genre setting period pieces, they’re still a lot of fun.

⭐Excellent book. I’m starting to read the robot series and decided to begin with the short stories. I know they have nothing or little to do with the robot series, but either way it’s just two books. I’ve already read I Robot, and rapidly continued with Rest of the Robots. This book contains other short stories not featured in I Robot. I loved them all. They are incredibly creative and totally grabs you from the first page to the last. Of the things I really liked about this book is the short introduction to every story. Done by Asimov himself, it rapidly explains when and where the story was first published and some of the ways and ideas of how it was conceived. This book is great, sadly it is extremely short.

⭐Book new and as described.

⭐excellent condition, very promot delivery

⭐Arrived on time, well packed and as described. That is all I want and hope for and they delivered!

⭐Along with irobot this is a lovely examination of artificial intelligence thru the medium of short stories. I really love the Susan Calvin character. Shame they went for a young attractive person in the movie!

⭐How to encourage my grandson to read. Educational funny SI FI reads. Much better in my opinion than what was on his read list from school. What is so bad about having a sense of educational humour?

⭐As advertised, good clean condition.

⭐A really great book, it replaces one that had literally come apart.

⭐if you read Science fiction – this is one of the best

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