#29 in Short stories
Robot Visions
- 496
- Pages
- about 9 h
- Reading time
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About the book
Robot Visions (1990) 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 robots and of time travel. It is the companion book to Robot Dreams (1986).
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Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.1 across 63 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 29% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Short stories average of 7.8. That is how 7.9 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.6 | 7 | 11% |
| Hardcover | 8.0 | 56 | 89% |
Reader voices
The most-liked reviews on Hardcover (credited to their authors).
“It is remarkable to read these stories and essays in the era of LMMs. Pretty impressive clairvoyance! Perhaps, after all, it *will* be possible to do in my lifetime what Montaigne did: "long weary of the servitude of the court and of public employments, while…”
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How long is Robot Visions?
It has 496 pages — longer than 65% of the ranked books in Short stories.
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