The Rest of the Robots
- 582
- Pages
- about 11 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“The Rest of the Robots” is a generous Asimov omnibus: eight short stories about positronic robots plus two full novels featuring Elijah Baley. Some readers especially enjoy the author’s notes between the pieces and the Susan Calvin stories; others value how relevant its questions about machines and human safety still feel, even if the opening part moves slowly for them. None of its stories repeat those of “I, Robot”.
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About the book
The Rest of the Robots is a collection of eight short stories and two full-length novels by American writer Isaac Asimov, published in 1964. The stories, centred on positronic robots, are all part of the Robot series, most of which take place in the Foundation universe. Another collection of short stories about robots, I, Robot, was re-published in the previous year, which is why Asimov chose to title the collection as The Rest of the Robots. None of the short stories in this collection were in I, Robot, however all of them were later included in The Complete Robot, and both novels about Elijah Baley were also published separately.
Reading order · Robot series
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Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.9 across 76 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 34% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google Books | 6.0 | 5 | 7% |
| Hardcover | 8.0 | 71 | 93% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Rest of the Robots?
It has 582 pages — longer than 77% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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