A millennium into the future two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. Isaac Asimov's Robot novels chronicle the unlikely partnership between a New York City detective and a humanoid robot who must learn to work together. Like most people left behind on an over-populated Earth, New York City police detective Elijah Baley had little love for either the arrogant Spacers or their robotic companions. But when a prominent Spacer is murdered under mysterious circumstances, Baley is ordered to the Outer Worlds to help track down the killer. The relationship between Life and his Spacer superiors, who distrusted all Earthmen, was strained from the start. Then he learned that they had assigned him a partner: R. Daneel Olivaw. Worst of all was that the "R" stood for robot--and his positronic partner was made in the image and likeness of the murder victim!
In PRELUDE TO FOUNDATION, what happed in the many centuries before the events made famous in Asimov's other Foundation novels - hitherto only hinted at - is now revealed. The Key to the Future It is the year 12,020 G.E. and the last Galactic Emperor of the Autun dynasty, Cleon I, sits uneasily on the throne. These are troubled times and Cleon is desperate to find a way to calm them. When young Outworld mathematician Hari Seldon arrives on Trantor to present a paper on psychohistory, his astounding theory of prediction, the emperor believes that his future security may rest on Seldon's prophetic powers. But Hari Seldon becomes the most wanted man in the Empire as he struggles desperately to keep his remarkable theory from falling into the wrong hands. At the same time he must he must forge the key to the future - a power to be known as the Foundation.
The epic story of the Foundation is one of the great classics of science fiction by the Grand Master of the genre. Isaac Asimov's legendary saga, winner of the Hugo Award for Best All-Time Novel Series, has enthralled generations of readers - and continues to amaze. All records of Earth have been removed systematically from the libraries of Foundation worlds. Now Councilman Golan Trevize and Professor Janov Pelorat traverse the galaxy in search of humanity's ancestral planet. On worlds beyond the Foundation's influence, superstition and taboo shroud the subject of their quest. To name Earth is to utter an obscenity. Fortunately, the space travellers find allies - and Pelorat finds a lover named Bliss - among the telepaths of the planet Gaia. As they near their destination, Bliss picks up thought waves of intelligent beings. What she cannot tell is whether or not those beings are human.
1) A robot must not harm a human. And it must not allow a human to be harmed. 2) A robot must obey a human's order., unless that order conflicts with the First Law. 3) A robot must protect itself, unless this protection conflicts with the First or Second Laws, Handbook of Robotics, 2058 A.D. Isaac Asimov's classic collection of stories about a society where humans and robots live and work together on earth and in outer-space, is both disturbing and prophetic.
Entre las novelas de Robots y la serie de la Fundación se encuentra la Trilogía del Imperio: tres clásicas obras de Isaac Asimov donde se trazan los inicios de la expansión humana por la Galaxia hasta llegar al auge del Imperio Galactico con capital en Trantor.En Polvo de estrellas, un ranchero de un mundo agricola y la princesa de un sofisticado reino nebular deben unir sus fuerzas para tratar de encontrar el mundo rebelde que supone la ultima esperanza contra el tiranico imperio que los oprime.En Las corrientes del espacio, el descubrimiento de un espacioanalista pone en peligro la relacion de dependencia entre Florina, el unico planeta donde se cultiva el preciado kyrt, y sus amos de Sark, en un conflicto que afecta a la expansion del Imperio de Trantor.En Un guijarro en el cielo, un hombre de nuestros dias se ve catapultado al futuro lejano, cuando el Imperio abarca la Galaxia y la Tierra no es mas que una mota perdida entre millones de mundos habitados, que se mofan de sus pretensiones de ser el origen de la humanidad. Pero la Tierra prepara su venganza...
