The Complete Robot

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The Complete Robot
Author	Isaac Asimov
Country	USA
Language	English
Series	Robot Series
Genre(s)	science fiction
Publication date	1982
Media type	book
ISBN	978-0586057247
Preceded by	I, Robot
Followed by	Robot Dreams

The Complete Robot is a collection of 31 science fiction short stories by Isaac Asimov written between 1940 and 1976, which were previously collected in books I, Robot, The Rest of the Robots, and other anthologies. Although working well enough as standalone stories, 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 a few categories.

Contents

• Some Non-human Robots
  • "A Boy's Best Friend"
  • "Sally"
  • "Someday"
• Some Immobile Robots
  • "Point of View"
  • "Think!"
  • "True Love"
• Some Metallic Robots
  • "Robot AL-76 Goes Astray"
  • "Victory Unintentional"
  • "Stranger In Paradise"
  • "Light Verse"
  • "Segregationist"
  • "Robbie"
• Some Humanoid Robots
  • "Let's Get Together"
  • "Mirror Image"
  • "The Tercentenary Incident"
  • "First Law"
  • "Runaround"
  • "Reason"
  • "Catch That Rabbit"
• Susan Calvin
  • "Liar!"
  • "Satisfaction Guaranteed"
  • "Lenny"
  • "Galley Slave"
  • "Little Lost Robot"
  • "Risk"
  • "Escape!"
  • "Evidence"
  • "The Evitable Conflict"
  • "Feminine Intuition"
• Two Climaxes
  • "That Thou Art Mindful of Him"
  • "The Bicentennial Man"

Stories not set in the Foundation universe

Some of the stories found in this book definitely don't belong to the Robot Series, even though they are about Asimov's positronic robots who obey the Three Laws of Robotics. They are:

• "Let's Get Together"
• "Someday"
• "Victory Unintentional"

Some stories are about robots who don't obey to Three Laws of Robotics.

• In Sally, there are positronic brain cars, and no other kinds of robots, who can damage men or not obey without problems.
• In Someday, there are non-positronic computers which tell stories and don't obey to the Three Laws
• In That Thou art Mindful of Him, robots are created with a very flexible Three Laws management, and these create little, simplified robots with no laws that actually act against the Three Laws of Robotics.

Stories not included

This collection includes most of Asimov's robot stories, but not all. Stories not included in this book are:

• "Mind and Iron" (the binding text from I, Robot)
• "Robot Dreams" (found in the anthology of the same title)
• "Robot Visions" (found in the anthology of the same title)
• "Christmas Without Rodney" (found in Robot Visions)
• "Cal" (found in Gold)
• "Kid Brother" (found in Gold)
• "Mother Earth" (found in The Early Asimov, volume 3)