The author of nearly five hundred books, Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) is esteemed as one of the finest writers of science fiction and scientific fact in the twentieth century.Asimov was born on January 2,...
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By the time of his death in 1992, Isaac Asimov was widely regarded as one of the most productive and versatile writers of all time. Asimov was best-known for his science-fiction novels and popularized...
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While Isaac Asimov officially celebrated his birthday as 2 January 1920, his birth date is uncertain. Records were not well kept in the U.S.S.R. in the period between World War I and World War II, par...
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Critical Essay by Hilary Corke
In essence I, Robot is a collection of indifferent short stories given a spurious novelty by mechanical transformation. But SF requires re-thinking, not mere re-clothin...
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In the following review, the critic favorably assesses I, Robot.
[In I, Robot,] it is the year 2058, with nationalism abolished and the world divided into Regions. Man is employing "positron...
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Suvin is an educator, critic, and author of Metamorphoses of Science Fiction (1979) and Positions and Presuppositions in Science Fiction (1988). In the following excerpt from an essay in which he exam...
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Beauchamp is an American critic and educator, who has written extensively on science fiction. In the following essay, he examines the way in which technology is characterized in Asimov's robot ...
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Fiedler is an educator and author of children's and young adult books. Mele is a poet, editor, and journalist. In the following essay, they examine the development of robots and robotics in I, ...
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In the following excerpt, Thomsen compares I, Robot with the works of Stanislaw Lem, contending that Asimov's writings fail to realistically address the ethics of future technological problems ...
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Hassler is an educator, poet, and author of Comic Tones in Science Fiction (1982) and Isaac Asimov (1989). In the following essay which focuses on I, Robot and the Foundation trilogy, he explores Asim...
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Isaac Asimov thrills the reader with his story-telling ability in "I, Robot". Of course, many of Asimov's ideas provide a ploy to add suspense to the story. However, when the plot complete...
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The plot of novel consists of nine, connected, yet separate, episodes. A reoccurring term is the three laws of robotics.
They are:
"1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allo...
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Six U.S. movie studios have successfully sued the owners of a
Beijing DVD shop for selling pirated copies of their films, state-run
Xinhua News Agency reported Wednesday.
Beijing Cherry Bl...
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Hamburg (dpa) - Like a small child admonished by grownups to "be
gentle" with small animals, a robot in Germany has undergone
conditioned programming to ensure that it will ...
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A court ordered a Beijing company on Wednesday to pay 195,000 yuan ($25,000) in damages to six U.S. movie studios for selling pirated DVDs, a court official said, in the latest in a string of lawsu...
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor Will Smith waltzes
into the press conference as if he were the living embodiment
of his character in his latest film, "I Am Legend" -- here to
save Hollywood from a b...
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RoboCops and robot soldiers got a little closer to reality Thursday as a maker of floor-cleaning automatons teamed up with a stun-gun manufacturer to arm track-wheeled 'bots for the police and the ...
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Shia LaBeouf is the next Tom Hanks. Or so it hath been officially decreed by the frothing, groaning, don’t-stop-us-now-we’re-on-a-roll Hollywood hype machine that’s been building ...
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Shia LaBeouf is in the position so many former child actors have found themselves in: that murky area between boyhood and manhood, between cute and commanding.And he's impatient for it to be over."...
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For the last man on Earth, Will Smith sure has a lot of friends. The Warner Bros. tale "I Am Legend," starring Smith as a plague survivor who may be the last living human, debuted with $76.5 millio...
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Isaac Asimov
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Critical Essay by Hilary Corke
Critique of Asimov's "I, Robot"
U.S. movie studios win case against China firm over counterfeit DVDs
