Robot Dreams
- 447
- Pages
- about 8 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Robot Dreams” is a generous sampler of Isaac Asimov’s short fiction, gathering twenty-one stories written between the 1940s and the 1980s. They range across the future of technology and of humanity, and Asimov adds his own commentary on the background of some of them. Some readers note an overlap with “The Complete Robot”, yet find the remaining stories well worth having.
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About the book
Robot Dreams (1986) is a collection of science fiction short stories by American writer 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 stories had previously appeared in various other Asimov collections. Four of the stories are robot stories, while five are Multivac stories.
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Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.0 across 81 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 36% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 7.8 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 9.1 | 13 | 16% |
| Hardcover | 7.8 | 68 | 84% |
Frequently asked
How long is Robot Dreams?
It has 447 pages — longer than 51% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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