Аннотация
Isaac Asimov
The Complete Robot
Dedicated To:
Marjorie Goldstein
David Bearinger
Hugh O'Neill
For whom books are in progress
Introduction
By the time I was in my late teens and already a hardened science fiction reader, I had read many robot stories and found that they fell into two classes.
In the first class there was Robot-as-Menace. I don't have to explain that overmuch. Such stories were a mixture of "clank-clank" and "aarghh" and "There are some things man was not meant to know." After a while, they palled dreadfully and I couldn't stand them.
In the second class (a much smaller one) there was Robot-as-Pathos. In such stories the robots were lovable and were usually put upon by cruel human beings. These charmed me. In late 1938 two such stories hit the stands that particularly impressed me. One was a short story by Eando Binder entitled "I, Robot," about a saintly robot named Adam Link; another was a story by Lester d...
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