Isaac Asimov
1) I, robot
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The three laws of Robotics: 1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm 2) A robot must obey orders given to 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. With these three, simple directives, Isaac Asimov changed our perception of robots forever when...
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Foundation series volume 6
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At last, the costly and bitter war between the two Foundations had come to an end. The scientists of the First Foundation had proved victorious; and now they retum to Hari Seldon''s long-established plan to build a new Empire that the Second Foundation is not destroyed after all-and that its still-defiant survivors are preparing their revenge. Now the two exiled citizens of the Foundation-a renegade Councilman and the doddering historian-set out in...
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Foundation series volume 1
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The year is 12,020 G.E. Emperor Cleon I rules Trantor, a civilization of unimaginable technological and cultural complexity. But among its 40 billion subjects, enemies plot against him. Enter Hari Seldon, a young mathematician -- he holds the key to the future.
4) Foundation
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One of the great masterworks of science fiction, the Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov are unsurpassed for their unique blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building. The story of our future begins with the history of Foundation and its greatest psychohistorian: Hari Seldon. For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. Only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory,...
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"Led by its founding father, the psychohistorian Hari Seldon, and utilizing science and technology, the Foundation survived the greed and barbarism of its neighboring warrior-planets. Now cleverness and courage may not be enough. For the Empire--the mightiest force in the Galaxy--is even more dangerous in its death throes. Even worse, a mysterious entity called the Mule has appeared with powers beyond anything humanly conceivable. Who--or what--is...
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"The Foundation lies in ruins--destroyed by a mutant mind bent on humanity's annihilation. But it's rumored that there's a Second Foundation hidden somewhere at the end of the Galaxy, established as insurance to preserve the knowledge of mankind. Now a desperate race has begun between the survivors of the First Foundation and an alien entity to find this last flicker of humanity's shining past--and future hope. Yet the key to it all might be a fourteen-year-old...
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Foundation series volume 2
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Hari Seldon struggles to perfect his revolutionary theory of psycho-history while the great Galactic Empire totters on the brink of apocalyptic collapse.
11) Saturn
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Gareth Stevens Pub
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2002
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This book describes Saturn and includes information on Saturn's numerous moons.
13) The moon
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Gareth Stevens Pub
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2002
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This book describes the moon, explaining its possible origins and its future prospects.
14) The sun
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Gareth Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
2002
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This book gives a description of the sun, the star of our solar system, including information on its origin, physical composition, and characteristics.
15) Venus
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Gareth Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
2002
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This book describes some of the various features of the planet Venus and how we have learned what we know.
16) Uranus
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Gareth Stevens Pub
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2002
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This book introduces the third largest known planet in the solar system.
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The fifth novel in Asimov''s popular Foundation series opens with second thoughts. Councilman Golan Trevize is wondering if he was right to choose a collective mind as the best possible future for humanity over the anarchy of contentious individuals, nations and planets. To test his conclusion, he decides he must know the past and goes in search of legendary Earth, all references to which have been erased from galactic libraries. The societies encountered...
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The second foundation trilogy volume 1
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HarperPrism
Pub. Date
1997
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In a futuristic galactic empire, a man and his robot wife escape from their enemies by transferring their minds into the bodies of animals.
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HarperPrism
Pub. Date
c1995
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Gold is the final and crowning achievement of the fifty-year career of science fiction's transcendent genius, the world-famous author who defined the field of science fiction for its practitioners, its millions of readers, and the world at large.
The first section contains stories that range from the humorous to the profound, at the heart of which is the title story, "Gold," a moving and revealing drama about a writer who gambles everything on a...
20) I, Robot
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Europe Comics
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2022
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What do we mean when we talk about artificial intelligence? Are we talking about beings more intelligent than humans? Wiser? Would we be able to coexist with such beings and overcome our presumption of superiority? These and other questions are what Isaac Asimov explores in his legendary stories of robots. And what Ral Cuadrado has now dared to illustrate.