Prelude to Foundation, Asimov Isaac

Автор: Asimov Isaac
Название: Caves of Steel
ISBN: 0553293400 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780553293401
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: A millennium into the future two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. Isaac Asimov's Robot novels chronicle the unlikely partnership between a New York City detective and a humanoid robot who must learn to work together.

Like most people left behind on an over-populated Earth, New York City police detective Elijah Baley had little love for either the arrogant Spacers or their robotic companions. But when a prominent Spacer is murdered under mysterious circumstances, Baley is ordered to the Outer Worlds to help track down the killer.

The relationship between Life and his Spacer superiors, who distrusted all Earthmen, was strained from the start. Then he learned that they had assigned him a partner: R. Daneel Olivaw. Worst of all was that the "R" stood for robot--and his positronic partner was made in the image and likeness of the murder victim

Автор: Asimov Isaac
Название: Gods Themselves
ISBN: 0553288105 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780553288100
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: The opening of a gate to another universe brings both a new source of energy and a perilous threat to the Sun, and Peter Lamont, a young scientist, must save Earth.

Автор: Asimov Isaac
Название: Foundation
ISBN: 0553293354 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780553293357
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: The story of our future begins with the Foundation.

Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read

For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. Only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future--a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save humanity, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire--both scientists and scholars--and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for future generations. He calls this sanctuary the Foundation.

But soon the fledgling Foundation finds itself at the mercy of corrupt warlords rising in the wake of the receding Empire. And mankind's last best hope is faced with an agonizing choice: submit to the barbarians and live as slaves--or take a stand for freedom and risk total destruction.

Автор: Asimov Isaac
Название: Robot visions
ISBN: 0451450647 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780451450647
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: From Isaac Asimov, the Hugo Award-winning Grand Master of Science Fiction whose name is synonymous with the science of robotics, comes five decades of robot visions: thirty-four landmark stories and essays--including three rare tales--gathered together in one volume.

Meet all of Asimov's most famous creations including: Robbie, the very first robot that his imagination brought to life; Susan Calvin, the original robot psychologist; Stephen Byerley, the humanoid robot; and the famous human/robot detective team of Lije Bailey and R. Daneel Olivaw, who have appeared in such bestselling novels as The Robots of Dawn and Robots and Empire.

Let the master himself guide you through the key moments in the fictional history of robot-human relations--from the most primitive computers and mobile machines to the first robot to become a man.

"It's good to have Isaac's classic robot stories, and his commentary on them, in one handsome volume."--Arthur C. Clarke

Автор: Asimov Isaac
Название: Foundation and Earth
ISBN: 0553587579 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780553587579
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Описание: The Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov are among the great masterworks of science fiction. An ingenious blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building, they chronicle the struggle of a courageous group of men and women determined to shield enlightened humanity from a ceaseless threat of darkness and ultimate annihilation.

Golan Trevize, former Councilman of the First Foundation, has chosen the future, and it is Gaia. A superorganism, Gaia is a holistic planet with a common consciousness so intensely united that every dewdrop, every pebble, every being, can speak for all--and feel for all. It is a realm in which privacy is not only undesirable, it is incomprehensible.

But is it the right choice for the destiny of mankind? While Trevize feels it is, that is not enough. He must know.

Trevize believes the answer lies at the site of humanity's roots: fabled Earth . . . if it still exists. For no one is sure where the planet of Gaia's first settlers is to be found in the immense wilderness of the Galaxy. Nor can anyone explain why no record of Earth has been preserved, no mention of it made anywhere in Gaia's vast world-memory. It is an enigma Trevize is determined to resolve, and a quest he is determined to undertake, at any cost.

Автор: Asimov Isaac
Название: Complete Stories Volume I, The
ISBN: 0006476473 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780006476474
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: Isaac Asimov was the Grand Master of the Science Fiction Writers of America, the founder of Robot Ethics. Herein are 25 science fiction stories, many of them classics of the genre, and the last, "The Last Question", is a personal favourite of Asimov himself.

Автор: Asimov Isaac
Название: Foundation
ISBN: 0008520038 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780008520038
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: The greatest science fiction adventure of all time Now an Apple Original series from Apple TV+

Автор: Asimov Isaac
Название: Foundation and Earth
ISBN: 0008117535 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780008117535
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST ALL-TIME SERIES The Foundation series is Isaac Asimov`s iconic masterpiece. Unfolding against the backdrop of a crumbling Galactic Empire, the story of Hari Seldon`s two Foundations is a lasting testament to an extraordinary imagination, one whose unprecedented scale shaped science fiction as we know it today.

Автор: Asimov Isaac
Название: Robots and empire
ISBN: 0008277796 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780008277796
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: Isaac Asimov`s ROBOT series - from the iconic collection I, ROBOT to four classic novels - contains some of the most influential works in the history of science fiction. Establishing and testing the THREE LAWS OF ROBOTICS, they continue to shape the understanding and design of artificial intelligence to this day.

Автор: Asimov Isaac
Название: Complete Robot
ISBN: 0008277818 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780008277819
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Цена: 11200 T
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Описание: Isaac Asimov`s ROBOT series - from the iconic collection I, ROBOT to four classic novels - contains some of the most influential works in the history of science fiction. Establishing and testing the THREE LAWS OF ROBOTICS, they continue to shape the understanding and design of artificial intelligence to this day.

Автор: Asimov Isaac
Название: Foundation
ISBN: 0008117497 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780008117498
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Цена: 7060 T
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Описание: WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST ALL-TIME SERIES The Foundation series is Isaac Asimov`s iconic masterpiece. Unfolding against the backdrop of a crumbling Galactic Empire, the story of Hari Seldon`s two Foundations is a lasting testament to an extraordinary imagination, one whose unprecedented scale shaped science fiction as we know it today.

Автор: Asimov Isaac
Название: End of Eternity, The
ISBN: 0586024409 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780586024409
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: Shortly to be filmed by Ridley Scott, the best time-travel story since H.G. Wells's The Time Machine, by the Grand Master of science fiction, the story of Andrew Harlan, Technician and Eternal. Andrew Harlan's job is to range through past and present centuries monitoring and even altering Time's myriad cause-and-effect relationships. As a Technician with the Allwhen Council, he initiates Reality Changes that may affect the lives of as many as fifty billion people -- and a million or more of them may be so drastically affected as to be considered new individulas. Above all, therefore, a Technician must be dispassionate. An emotional make-up is a distinct handicap. Then Harlan meets Noys and falls victim to a phenomenon older than Time itself -- love. Years of self-discipline are cast aside as Harlan uses the awesome techniques of the Eternals to twist Time so that he and Noys might survive...together.

Автор: Asimov Isaac
Название: Foundation and Empire
ISBN: 0553293370 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780553293371
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 5620 T
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Описание: The Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov are one of the great masterworks of science fiction. Unsurpassed for their unique blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building, they chronicle the struggle of a courageous group of men and women to preserve humanity s light against an inexorable tide of darkness and violence. Led by its founding father, the great psychohistorian Hari Seldon, and taking advantage of its superior science and technology, the Foundation has survived the greed and barbarism of its neighboring warrior-planets. Yet now it must face the Empire still the mightiest force in the Galaxy even in its death throes. When an ambitious general determined to restore the Empire s glory turns the vast Imperial fleet toward the Foundation, the only hope for the small planet of scholars and scientists lies in the prophecies of Hari Seldon. But not even Hari Seldon could have predicted the birth of the extraordinary creature called The Mule a mutant intelligence with a power greater than a dozen battle fleets a power that can turn the strongest-willed human into an obedient slave."

Автор: Asimov Isaac
Название: Foundation and Empire
ISBN: 0008117500 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780008117504
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Цена: 7910 T
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Описание: WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST ALL-TIME SERIES The Foundation series is Isaac Asimov`s iconic masterpiece. Unfolding against the backdrop of a crumbling Galactic Empire, the story of Hari Seldon`s two Foundations is a lasting testament to an extraordinary imagination, one whose unprecedented scale shaped science fiction as we know it today.

Автор: Asimov Isaac
Название: I, robot
ISBN: 0008279551 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780008279554
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Цена: 6420 T
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Описание: Isaac Asimov`s ROBOT series - from the iconic collection I, ROBOT to four classic novels - contains some of the most influential works in the history of science fiction. Establishing and testing the THREE LAWS OF ROBOTICS, they continue to shape the understanding and design of artificial intelligence to this day.