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From: FoundationIt is always cheering to clear up a troublesome literary and scientific mystery. Isaac Asimov's long-running chronicles of our future have posed one such problem, and now in his seventieth year the answer can at last be...
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From: Foundation
Reiterated Plots and Themes in the Robot Novels: Getting away with Murder and Overcoming Programming
Just as the Robot stories and novels exhibit the same chaos-theory concepts as does the Foundation series, but in a somewhat different way, so too do the Robot novels exhibit the same fractal quality of duplication... -
From: Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature[(essay date Spring-Summer 1980) Beauchamp is an American critic and educator, who has written extensively on science fiction. In the following essay, he examines the way in which technology is characterized in Asimov's...
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From:Contemporary Popular WritersIsaac Asimov was almost unbelievably prolific in both the number of books he produced and the variety of genres he tackled. He churned out mysteries, young-adult and adult science fiction, young-adult and adult...
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From: Science Fiction Studies[(essay date March 1988) Hassler is an educator, poet, and author of Comic Tones in Science Fiction (1982) and Isaac Asimov (1989). In the following essay which focuses on I, Robot and the Foundation trilogy, he explores...
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From: New Boundaries in Political Science Fiction[(essay date 2008) In the following essay, Raiford interprets the social situation of robots as a metaphor for the experience of African Americans in Asimov's The Bicentennial Man and I, Robot, and the television shows...
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From:The Literature of Propaganda (Vol. 3: Effects. )Isaac Asimov Published in 1950, the short story collection I, Robot is the first of many works by American science fiction writer Isaac Asimov that explores the relationship between humans and their technological...
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From:Science Fiction Writers: Critical Studies of the Major Authors from the Early Nineteenth Century to the Present Day (2nd ed.)Introduction ISAAC ASIMOV DID not “burst” into science fiction with a spectacularly successful story, as some science fiction writers have. Instead, his first published story, “Marooned off Vesta,” appeared without...