#110 in Science fiction
The Complete Robot
- 557
- Pages
- about 10 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“The Complete Robot” puts thirty-one of Asimov’s robot stories, written across nearly four decades, into one generous volume. Grouped by theme, they form an invented history of robotics and an argument about machines and morality, with the author’s own notes between the tales. Readers of “I, Robot” will meet much of it again; some find the less familiar stories a shade weaker, and some name the last one, “The Bicentennial Man”, as the best.
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About the book
The Complete Robot (1982) is a collection of 31 of the 37 science fiction short stories about robots by American writer Isaac Asimov, written between 1939 and 1977. Most of the stories had been previously collected in the books I, Robot and The Rest of the Robots, while four had previously been uncollected and the rest had been scattered across five other anthologies. They share a theme of the interaction of humans, robots and morality, and put together tell a larger story of Asimov's fictional history of robotics. The stories are grouped into categories.
Reading order · Robot series
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Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.5 across 180 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 55% 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 | 9.0 | 27 | 15% |
| Hardcover | 8.4 | 153 | 85% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Complete Robot?
It has 557 pages — longer than 72% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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