The Rest of the Robots is a collection of eight short stories and two full-length novels by Isaac Asimov. The stories, centred on positronic robots, are all part of the Robot series, most of which take place in the Foundation universe. Another collection of short stories about robots, I, Robot, was re-published in the …
Robot Visions is a collection of science fiction short stories and factual essays by Isaac Asimov. Many of the stories are reprinted from other Asimov collections, particularly I, Robot and The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories. It also includes the title story, "Robot Visions", which combines Asimov's motifs of …
Four men and a woman are reduced to a microscopic fraction of their original size, sent in a miniaturized atomic sub through a dying man's carotid artery to destroy a blood clot in his brain. If they fail, the entire world will be doomed.
Robot Dreams is a collection of science fiction short stories by Isaac Asimov, illustrated by Ralph McQuarrie. The title story is about Susan Calvin's discovery of a robot with rather disturbing dreams. It was written specifically for this volume and inspired by the McQuarrie cover illustration. All of the other …
夜幕低垂又译日暮,原本是美国作家艾萨克·阿西莫夫的短篇科幻小说《夜归》,1941年《惊奇科幻》杂志的主编约翰·坎贝尔在看到爱默生的一段文字“设若苍穹繁星,千年仅得一见,当面对这神秘天国之乍现,人类将会如何敬畏、赞叹、顶礼膜拜,且将这珍贵记忆流传子孙世世代代?”,他请当时年仅21岁的阿西莫夫将它写成一篇短篇小说,成为阿西莫夫的第32号科幻作品。《夜归》在1968年被美国科幻作家协会票选为“史上最佳科幻短篇小说”。 …
《繁星若尘》,是美国作家艾萨克·阿西莫夫出版于1951年的长篇科幻小说,是“银河帝国三部曲”中年代最早的一部,在这部小说里,人类还处于星际战国时代,银河帝国及其前身“川陀王国”皆尚未出现。
The Complete Robot is a collection of 31 of the 38 science fiction short stories by Isaac Asimov, written between 1939 and 1977. Most of the stories had been previously collected in the books I, Robot and The Rest of the Robots, while four stories had previously been uncollected and the rest had been scattered across …
《蒼穹一粟》,中國大陸譯名《空中石子》和《蒼穹微石》,是美國作家以撒·艾西莫夫出版於1950年的長篇科幻小說,也是他的第一部長篇小說。雖然最早出版,故事年代卻是「銀河帝國三部曲」中的最後一集,此時整個銀河系業已統一在「銀河帝國」的旗幟下。 …
Nemesis is a science fiction novel by American writer Isaac Asimov. One of his later science fiction novels, it was published in 1989, only three years before his death. The novel is loosely related to the future history into which he attempted to integrate his science fiction output, connecting several ideas from …