I, Robot | Suggested Reading

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The Complete Robot is a collection of all of Asimov's robot stories published in book form up to that time. The Caves of Steel (1954), The Naked Sun (1956), and The Robots of Dawn (1984) are three novels dealing with positronic robots.

The human policeman Lije Baley and his robot partner R. Daneel Olivaw solve murders dealing with robots and robot-using societies, in a fashion similar to the scientific investigation of I, Robot. Asimov's recent fiction ties to his Foundation and robot stories together, so that Foundation's Edge (1982) and Robots and Empire (1985) relate the two series. Although robots make no direct appearance in Foundation's Edge, they are discussed extensively and Asimov questions his earlier position that the robots will always act for human benefit. He now suggests that the robots will become tyrants out of benevolent motives.

Anthony J. Bernardo, Jr.