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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.
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. On the beautiful Outer World planet of Solaria,
a handful of human colonists lead a hermit-like existence, their every
need attended to by their faithful robot servants. To this strange and
provocative planet comes Detective Elijah Baley, sent from the streets
of New York with his positronic partner, the robot R. Daneel Olivaw,
to solve an incredible murder that has rocked Solaria to its foundations.
As one of the most gifted and prolific writers of the twentieth century,
Isaac Asimov has become a literary legend. In reflecting on his years
and his career in the last volume of his autobiographical trilogy, he
said modestly, "it's been a good life."" "Now ten
years after her husband's death, Janet Jeppson Asimov has carefully
mined the depths of Asimov's most personal thoughts about his life and
work. She lovingly combines these with revealing excerpts from his letters
to create an intimate portrait of a genius whose tireless passion for
writing is evident on every page.
In 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.
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A puzzling case of roboticide sends New York Detective Elijah Baley
on an intense search for a murderer. Armed with his own instincts, his
quirky logic, and the immutable Three Laws of Robotics, Baley is determined
to solve the case. But can anything prepare a simple Earthman for the
psychological complexities of a world where a beautiful woman can easily
have fallen in love with an all-too-human robot...?
Until his death in 1992, author Isaac Asimov would write more than
120 ingenious tales of detection and deduction, and in 66 of them he
would present his armchair detectives, the Black Widowers, with the
mind-teasing puzzles that they would strive to solve in often-quarrelsome
conversation. The Black Widowers club is meeting again. In a private
dining room at New York's luxurious Milano restaurant, the six brilliant
men once more gather for fine fare served impeccably by their peerless
waiter, Henry.
In a race against time, a miniaturized crew travels through the blood
stream of a defector from a foreign power in order to break a life-threatening
blood clot in the defector's brain. It is up to Charles Grant to command
the submarine crew and to insure its success in the face of a possible
sabotage action by an unidentified crew member. The mission is an exciting
trip through the arteries and the heart to the capillaries and the lung
and through the ear to the brain before all but one of the crew makes
it safely out of the defector's body.
“You can be a dirty old man only as long as you live. Once you
die, it’s over.” With utter frankness, Dr. A. touches on every
angle of the art of being not only a dirty old man, but a sensuous dirty
old man: the stare, the leer, the snicker, the snort, the fatherly squeeze,
the uncle-ish tweak, and the “problems”: What do you say when
the husband arrives? What do you do when you meet that dread adversary,
the dirty old woman? |
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