Isaac Asimov - 01 Robot 03 - Eight Stories from The Rest of the Robots.pdf - Isaac Asimov - widez2

The Rest of the Robots

Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov laid down the now-famous Three Laws of Robotics in 1941:

1. A robot may not injure a human being, or, through in-action, 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.

The results were truly revolutionary. SF writers everywhere have accepted the laws and there is no

doubt that when robots are actually built they will be subject to Asimov's famous rules.

Meanwhile, the eight magnificent short stories collected in The Rest of the Robots completes the robotic

saga begun in the first volume, I, Robot.

Page 1

They are a 'must' for SF readers everywhere.

Also by Isaac Asimov

Foundation

Foundation and Empire Second Foundation

Earth Is Room Enough

The Stars Like Dust

The Martian Way The Currents of Space

The End of Eternity The Naked Sun The Caves of Steel

Asimov's Mysteries

The Gods Themselves

Nightfall One

Nightfall Two

I, Robot

The Early Asimov: Volume I The Early Asimov: Volume II The Early Asimov: Volume HI

Nebula Award Stones 8 (ed)

The Stars in their Courses (non-fiction)

Tales of the Black Widowers (detection stories)

Isaac Asimov

The Rest of the Robots

Panther

Page 2

Granada Publishing Limited

Published in 1968 by Panther Books Ltd

Frogmore, St Albans, Herts, AL2 2NF

Reprinted 1969 (twice), 1972, 1973, 1974,1975, 1976

First published in Great Britain by

Dobson Books Ltd 1967

Made and printed in Great Britain by

Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd

Bungay, Suffolk

Set in Linotype Plantin

This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold,

hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover

other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being

imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

This book is published at a net price and is supplied subject to the Publishers Association Standard

Conditions of Sale registered under the Restrictive Trade Practices Act, 1956.

To Tim,

Tom and Dick

My stalwart supporters at Doubleday

1942, Amazing Stories.

Stories.

Science Fiction.

Science Stories.

Page 3

Science Fiction.

Fiction.

Galley Slave, Copyright New York 1957 by Galaxy Publishing Corporation; first appeared December

1957, Galaxy.

Contents

Introduction

I The Coming of the Robots

Robot AL-76 Goes Astray

Victory Unintentional

II The Laws of Robotics

First Law

Let's Get Together

III Susan Calvin

Page 4

Satisfaction Guaranteed

Risk

Lenny

Galley Slave

INTRODUCTION

Would you like to hear a writer's nightmare?

Well, then, imagine a writer of considerable reputation, who knows himself to be a Great Man. Bestow

upon him a wife, a little woman who is a bit of a writer herself but, of course, nothing like her great, her

magnificent husband, either in her own eyes, in the world's eyes, or (most im-portant of all) in his eyes.

And imagine that, as a result of some conversation, the little woman suggests she write a novel on the

subject. And the Great Man, smiling benignly, says, 'Of course, dear You go right ahead.'

And she does, and it is published, and it makes a per-fectly gigantic sensation. And it follows, then, that

although the Great Man is universally admitted to be Great, it is the little woman's novel which is best

known forever afterward —so well known, in fact, that the tide becomes a byword in the English

language.

How grisly a situation for a normally egocentric profes-sional writer that would be.

Yet I'm not making this up. It is a true story. It happened.

The Great Man is Percy Bysshe Shelley, one of the magnificent lyric poets of the English language. At

the age of twenty-two, he eloped with Mary Wollstonecraft God-win, an event which, however

romantic, was slightly irregular, as Shelley was a married man at the time.

The publicity was such that they were better off outside England, and in the summer of 1816 they stayed

on the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland with the equally great poet and equally notorious gentleman,

George Gor-don, Lord Byron.

At the time, the scientific world was in a ferment. In 1791 the Italian physicist, Luigi Galvani, had

discovered that frogs' muscles could be made to twitch if touched simultaneously by two different metals

Page 5

Isaac Asimov - 01 Robot 03 - Eight Stories from The Rest of the Robots.pdf

Plik z chomika:

Inne pliki z tego folderu:

Inne foldery tego chomika: