The Complete Robot

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The Complete Robot is a collection of science fiction short stories by Isaac Asimov written between 1940 and 1976, which were previously collected in books I, Robot, The Rest of the Robots, and other anthologies. Although working well enough as standalone stories, 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.

[edit] Contents:

• "A Boy's Best Friend"
• "Sally"
• "Someday"
• "Point of View"
• "Think!"
• "True Love"
• "Robot AL-76 Goes Astray"
• "Victory Unintentional"
• "Stranger In Paradise"
• "Light Verse"
• "Segregationist"
• "Robbie"
• "Let's Get Together"
• "Mirror Image"
• "The Tercentenary Incident"
• "First Law"
• "Runaround"
• "Reason"
• "Catch That Rabbit"
• "Liar!"
• "Satisfaction Guaranteed"
• "Lenny"
• "Galley Slave"
• "Little Lost Robot"
• "Risk"
• "Escape!"
• "Evidence"
• "The Evitable Conflict"
• "Feminine Intuition"
• "—That Thou Art Mindful of Him"
• "The Bicentennial Man"

[edit] Stories not set in the Foundation universe

Some of the stories found in this book definitely don't belong to the Robot Series, even though they are about Asimov's positronic robots who obey the Three Laws of Robotics. They are:

• "Let's Get Together"
• "Someday"
• "Victory Unintentional"

[edit] Stories not included

This collection includes most of Asimov's robot stories, but not all. Stories not included in this book are:

• "Mind and Iron" (the binding text from I, Robot)
• "Robot Dreams" (found in the anthology of the same title)
• "Christmas Without Rodney" (found in Robot Visions)
• "Cal" (found in Gold)
• "Kid Brother" (found in Gold)
• "Mother Earth" (found in The Early Asimov, volume 3)

Preceded by: I, Robot

Robot Series Foundation Series

Followed by: Robot Dreams

v • d • e Isaac Asimov's Robot Series Writings Novels: The Caves of Steel · The Naked Sun · The Robots of Dawn · Robots and Empire Short story collections: I, Robot · The Rest of the Robots · The Complete Robot  · Robot Dreams Second Robot series (by Roger McBride Allen): Isaac Asimov's Caliban  · Isaac Asimov's Inferno · Isaac Asimov's Utopia Characters Elijah Baley · R. Daneel Olivaw · R. Giskard Reventlov · Susan Calvin · List of characters in Isaac Asimov's Robot Series Planets Earth · Solaria · Aurora · Baleyworld Concepts Spacer · Positronic brain · Robopsychology · U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men · Frankenstein complex · Multivac · Three Laws of Robotics Followed by: The Empire Series and The Foundation Series

v • d • e Science fiction short story collections by Isaac Asimov I, Robot (1950) • The Martian Way and Other Stories (1955) • Earth Is Room Enough (1957) • Nine Tomorrows (1959) • The Rest of the Robots (1964) • Through a Glass, Clearly (1967) • Nightfall and Other Stories (1969) • The Early Asimov (1972) • The Best of Isaac Asimov (1973) • Buy Jupiter and Other Stories (1975) • The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories (1976) • The Complete Robot (1982) • The Winds of Change and Other Stories (1983) • The Alternate Asimovs (1986) • The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov (1986) • Robot Dreams (1986) • Azazel (1988) • Gold (1990) • Robot Visions (1990) • Magic (1995) List of short stories by Isaac Asimov