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Robot 0.2. Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics have since been programmed into real computers the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and used as the outline for a legal robotic charter. The Rest of The Robots...are not simple unthinking machines victimised by frightened men: Robot Tony is the first robot designed to perform domestic duties by the US 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? The Rest of the Robots...are positronic with brains of platinum-iridium. Independent. Precision eng8i9neered. Sensible. Rational... 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. Robot Lenny answers workaday questions in baby-talk. 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...Asimov's final, classic terrifying picture of robotic developments in the future...Cover art by Dennis Rolfe. -
The Naked Sun: Isaac Asimov
$18.00On the remote planet Solaria, the first murder for 200 years has been committed. The Solarians are Spacers with a a civilisation based on robots instead of slaves - and some very odd taboos and phobias. Into this strange set-up comes detective Elijah Baley, investigating the murder for his government. But Baley finds some aspects of life on Solaria difficult - even terrifying. As an Earthman, he's used to living underground. From the moment of his arrival, Baley's investigation becomes an ordeal of nerves under the pitiless glare of the naked sun... Cover art by Chris Foss. -
This volume contains Asimov's early works from the 1930s and 1940s: Homo Sol; Half-Breeds On Venus; The Imaginary; Heredity; History; Christmas on Ganymede; The Little Man on the Subway; The Hazing; Super Neutron; Not Final! Legal Rites; Time Pussy. Cover art by Christ Foss. -
A millennium into the future two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonisation of the galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. Like most people left behind on an over-populated Earth, New York City 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 Baley 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. Cover art by Dennis Rolfe. -
In this volume: Marooned Off Vesta; Nightfall; C-Chute; The Martian Way; The Deep; The Fun They Had' The Last Question; The Dead Past; The Dying Night; Anniversary; The Billiard Ball; Mirror Image. Cover art by Patrick Woodroffe. This is a very scarce volume. The most recently sold copy, with a dust jacket rated as 'poor', sold for approximately 1230.00 AUD. Later issued in two paperback volumes. -
Book 1 of David Starr, Space Ranger. Earth is on the brink of catastrophe. The vital foodstuffs supplied by its Martian colony are being poisoned, causing mass panic and a crippled Earth economy. Working in secret, the ruling Council of Science sends David Starr, its youngest member, to the Martian farmlands to discover the truth behind the murders...Cover art by Peter Elson. -
The old First Empire lies shattered, swept away by the forces of First Foundation established by psychohistorian Hari Seldon, the only man to have foreseen the shifting patterns of the inhabited Cosmos. But not even Seldon could have predicted the mutant menace of the Mule - a being of terrifying supernomal powers who can precipitate a savage struggle that can lay waste to entire star systems. -
Nemesis: Isaac Asimov
$12.00In the twenty-third century, pioneers have escaped the crowded earth for life in self-sustaining orbital colonies. One of the colonies, Rotor, has broken away from the solar system to create its own renegade utopia around an unknown red star two light-years from Earth: a star named Nemesis. Now a fifteen-year-old Rotorian girl has learned of the dire threat that Nemesis poses to Earth's people - but she is prevented from warning them. Soon she will realize that Nemesis endangers Rotor as well. And so it will be up to her alone to save both Earth and Rotor as--drawn inexorably by Nemesis, the death star - they hurtle toward certain disaster. Cover art by Don Dixon -
This is Asimov's final collection of his fantasy stories that were not published previously. In this volume: To Your Health; The Critic on the Hearth; It's a Job; Baby, Its Cold Outside; The Time Traveler; Wine Is a Mocker; The Mad Scientist; The Fable of the Three Princes; March Against the Foe; Northwestward; Prince Delightful and the Flameless Dragon. Also included are his thoughts on the genre of fantasy itself. Here are the fascinating musings of a wide ranging intelligence, discussing everything from Tolkien to Spielberg, from Unicorns to King Arthur, from the difference between maidens and damsels to the speed of Seven League Boots...scientifically calculated, of course!
