Isaak Judovič Asimov Orden de los libros (cronológico)

Tien verhalen over een maatschappij waarin mensen en robots eendrachtig samenwerken. Het tiende verhaal De robot van de Machine is de mens in deze speciale Nederland Leest uitgave van Ik, robot is geschreven door Ronald Giphart in samenwerking met een robot ontwikkeld door Folgert Karsdorp (Meertens Instituut, Amsterdam), Enrique Manjavacas, Ben Burtenshaw en Mike Kestemont (Universiteit Antwerpen).

From the author of "Foundation", "Robot" and "Empire", this story is set in a futuristic world where Nemesis, a dwarf star, is on a collision course for the Earth. Isaac Asimov has won numerous awards and has received 14 honorary academic degrees.

Powerful and haunting, The Positronic Man is an unforgettable novel that redefines Isaac Asimov's and Robert Silverberg's place among the greatest science fiction authors of all time. In the twenty-first century the creation of the positronic brain leads to the development of robot laborers and revolutionizes life on Earth. But to the Martin family, their household robot NDR-113 is more than a trusted friend, a confidant, a member of the family. For through some unknown manufacturing glitch, Andrew has been blessed with a capacity for love and a drive toward self-awareness and devlopment that are almost...human. But almost is not enough. Andrew's dream is to become fully human. Facing human prejudice, the laws of robotics, and his own mechanical limitations, Andrew will use science and law in his quest for the impossible, arriving at last at a terrifying choice: to make his dream a reality, he must pay the ultimate price.

They stole a boy from the past— To the astounded world of contemporary Earth, he is a beast, a Neanderthal ape-boy torn from the primordial past. But to his nurse and protector, he is something much more than a time-travel experiment. Edith Fellowes took the job with Stasis Technologies with the understanding that the nursing job would definitely be temporary...but all that changed upon meeting "Timmie," the lonely boy whose every friend and relative—even his whole race—was 40,000 years dead. —and consigned him to the future Then Edith discovers the scientists' true intentions, and she forms a bizarre and daring plan. At stake is Timmie's very existence...and her own.

Imagine living on a planet with six suns that never experiences Darkness. Imagine never having seen the Stars. Then, one by one your suns start to set, gradually leading you into Darkness for the first time ever. Image the terror of such a Nightfall. Scientists on the planet Kalgash discover that an eclipse - an event that occurs only every 2049 years - is imminent, and that a society unfamiliar with Darkness will be plunged into madness and chaos. They realize that their civilization will end, for the people of Kalgash have a proven fear of Darkness, but they are unable to predict the insanity and destruction that will accompany the awesome splendor of Nightfall.

Verhandeling over het verschijnsel van exploderende sterren welke veel invloed hebben op het ontstaan van materie in het heelal.

Scientist, author, and Earth-dweller, explores the many potential natural and man-made catastrophes that could change life as we know it, or erase us from the face of the Earth. Natural properties and laws might change at any time, rendering life on this planet--or anywhere in the universe--impossible. But the disasters that are most imminent are in our power to control--technology, nuclear warfare, pollution... Natural forces far more powerful than man might destroy us. Or they may have nothing to do with bringing about the end.

Robert A. HeinleinLevenslijn (Life Line)Beproeving in de ruimte (Ordeal in Space)Wie eenmaal macht heeft (Logic of Empire)Isaac AsimovDenk! (Think!)Niemendalletje (About nothing)Het ontbrekende onderdeel (The Missing Item)Een kwestie van smaak (Good Taste)A. E. van VogtDe bekentenis (The Confession)Het groene woud (The Green Forest)Het ding uit zee (The Sea Thing)

En el siglo XXVII, la Tierra funda una organización llamada Eternidad, enviando sus emisarios al pasado y al futuro para abrir el comercio entre las diferentes épocas, y para alterar la larga y a veces trágica historia de la raza humana. El proyecto estaba integrado sólo por los mejores y más brillantes exponentes de cada siglo: personas que dejaron de lado sus propias vidas para dedicarse a servir a los demás.

"Breeds There a Man...?" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the June 1951 issue of Astounding and reprinted in the 1967 collection Through a Glass, Clearly and the 1969 collection Nightfall and Other Stories. Elwood Ralson, a brilliant but psychologically disturbed physicist, becomes convinced that humanity is a kind of genetics experiment being run by an alien intelligence. His behaviour becomes more erratic and suicidal as his thoughts become more entrenched in this idea, and his health fails.

A THOUSAND-YEAR EPIC, A GALACTIC STRUGGLE, A MONUMENTAL WORK IN THE ANNALS OF SCIENCE FICTION FOUNDATION begins a new chapter in the story of man's future. As the Old Empire crumbles into barbarism throughout the million worlds of the galaxy, Hari Seldon and his band of psychologists must create a new entity, the Foundation-dedicated to art, science, and technology-as the beginning of a new empire. FOUNDATION AND EMPIRE describes the mighty struggle for power amid the chaos of the stars in which man stands at the threshold of a new enlightened life which could easily be destroyed by the old forces of barbarism. SECOND FOUNDATION follows the Seldon Plan after the First Empire's defeat and describes its greatest threat-a dangerous mutant strain gone wild, which produces a mind capable of bending men's wills, directing their thoughts, reshaping their desires, and destroying the universe.