#121 in Science fiction
Robots and Empire
- 468
- Pages
- about 9 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Robots and Empire” is the novel in which Asimov ties his robot stories to his wider future history, and its real heroes are two robots. Some readers single out how those two develop and how the plot explains the later shape of human settlement across the galaxy; some find it readable without the earlier books. Others feel that nearly everyone speaks in tidy, explanatory paragraphs, and that one long stretch of deduction drags.
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About the book
Robots and Empire is a science fiction novel by the American author Isaac Asimov, published by Doubleday Books in 1985. Robots and Empire is part of Asimov's consolidation of his three major series of science fiction stories and novels into a single future history: his Robot series, his Galactic Empire series and his Foundation series.
Reading order · Robot series
Full order & progress →- I, RobotStart here
8.28.2 / 10 - The Caves of Steel
8.18.1 / 10 - The Naked Sun
8.18.1 / 10 - The Robots of Dawn
8.08.0 / 10 - Robots and EmpireThis book
8.28.2 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.3 across 336 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 70% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 8.2 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.4 | 31 | 9% |
| Google Books | 8.0 | 9 | 3% |
| Hardcover | 8.3 | 296 | 88% |
Frequently asked
How long is Robots and Empire?
It has 468 pages — longer than 59% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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