Foundation and Earth, Asimov Isaac

Автор: Asimov Isaac
Название: Robot visions
ISBN: 0451450647 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780451450647
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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: Prelude a Fondation NEd
ISBN: 226625698X ISBN-13(EAN): 9782266256988
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Автор: Asimov Isaac
Название: Robot Dreams
ISBN: 0441731546 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780441731541
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Описание: From the Bestselling Author of I, Robot
"His name is synonymous with all that is best in science fiction."--The New York Times

In a career spanning nearly fifty years, Isaac Asimov--science writer, historian, and futurist--accurately predicted how technological breakthroughs would be developed and utilized, years before they became reality. His foresight envisioned calculators, computerized cars, and advances in the field of robotics in such popular books as I, Robot; Robots and Empire; and The Robots of Dawn.
Robot Dreams spans the body of his fiction from the 1940s to the mid-1980s, featuring all of the classic Asimovian themes--from the scientific puzzle and the extraterrestrial thriller to the psychological discourse--presented by the author in an introductory essay.
In addition to the title story (a Locus poll winner, and Hugo and Nebula Award finalist), this collection features several of Asimov's robot tales. A robopsychologist must outwit a machine determined to stay hidden in "Little Robot Lost;" a woman's talent for "Light Verse" overshadows her true accomplishments with her robot servants; and "The Last Question" presented to computer after computer over a hundred billion years may remain forever unanswered.
"Classic science fiction . . . includes many of Asimov's best."--Chronicle
"The collection gathers 20 of Asimov's greatest (with Asimov, the word 'great' is no mere hyperbole), older short stories, plus one new tale written especially for this book, and an important essay which opens the book."--Starlog

Автор: Asimov Isaac
Название: Rest of the Robots, The
ISBN: 0586025944 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780586025949
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Описание: The third timeless, amazing and amusing volume of Isaac Asimov`s robot stories. Asimov`s Three Laws of Robotics have since been programmed into real computers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and used as the outline for a legal robotic charter in Korea.

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: Foundation and Empire
ISBN: 0008117500 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780008117504
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Описание: Foundation and Empire is the story of first contact between the two Foundations of Hari Seldon.

Автор: Asimov Isaac
Название: Naked sun
ISBN: 000827777X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780008277772
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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 Stories Volume II, The
ISBN: 0006480160 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780006480167
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Описание: The second volume in an extraordinary collection published shortly after the author`s death. In these twenty-three stories, Asimov`s vivid awareness of the potential of technology is translated into human dilemmas.

Автор: Asimov Isaac
Название: Foundation
ISBN: 0008117497 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780008117498
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Описание: The first volume in Issac Asimov`s world-famous saga, winner of the Hugo Award for Best All-Time Novel Series.

Автор: Asimov Isaac
Название: End of Eternity, The
ISBN: 0586024409 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780586024409
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Описание: 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.

Автор: Asimov Isaac
Название: Second Foundation
ISBN: 0008117519 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780008117511
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Описание: When the First Foundation was conquered by a force Seldon had not foreseen - the overwhelming power of a single individual, a mutant called the Mule - the second Foundation was forced to reveal its existence and, infinitely worse, a portion of its power.

Автор: Asimov Isaac
Название: Robots of dawn
ISBN: 0008277788 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780008277789
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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: Rest of the robots
ISBN: 000827780X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780008277802
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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: I, robot
ISBN: 0008279551 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780008279554
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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`s Edge
ISBN: 0008117527 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780008117528
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Описание: It is 498 years since the two Foundations came into existence - half-way through the Interregnum planned by Hari Seldon. The Second Foundation has once more successfully concealed its existence so that the laws of psychohistory can operate to usher in a new Empire ruled by the mental sciences.