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I, Robot
Sign in to saveshort story collection by Isaac Asimov
Key facts
- Author
- Isaac Asimov
- Cover artist
- Edd Cartier
- Language
- English
- Series
- Robot series
- Genre
- Science fiction
- Publisher
- Gnome Press
- Publication date
- December 2, 1950
- Publication place
- United States
- Media type
- Print (hardback)
- Followed by
- The Rest of the Robots , The Complete Robot
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- literary work
- Has part
- Runaround
- Author
- Isaac Asimov
- Genre
- science fiction
- Country of origin
- United States
- Series
- Robot series
- Followed by
- The Rest of the Robots
- Narrative location
- New York City
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- set in period
- 2052
- publication date
- 1950-12-02
- title
- I, Robot.
- language of work or name
- English language
- derivative work
- I, Robot
- place of publication
- Boston
- form of creative work
- short story collection
- number of pages
- 180
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Encyclopedic overview
I, Robot is a fixup collection of science fiction short stories by American writer Isaac Asimov. The stories originally appeared in the American magazines Super Science Stories and Astounding Science Fiction between 1940 and 1950. In 1950, the stories were compiled into a single publication by Gnome Press, in an initial edition of 5,000 copies.
In 1982, all the short stories, minus the frame story, were included in The Complete Robot.
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