Isaac Asimov
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The editors from Fantasic Stories present Fantasy and Science Fiction from the Present, Past, and Future. The Cold Calculations by Michael A. Burstein, They Twinkled like Jewels by Philip José Farmer, Lingua Franca by Carole McDonnell, Dawn of Flame by Stanley G. Weinbaum, Don't Jump by Jamie Wild, Youth by Isaac Asimov, Digger Don't Take No Requests by John Teehan, Lighter than You Think by Nelson Bond, Garden of Souls by M. Turville Heitz, The...
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The Fourth Science Fiction Megapack selects 25 more modern and classic science fiction stories, by talented authors new and old. Authors in this volume include: Mary A. Turzillo, E.C. Tubb, Murray Leinster, Philip K. Dick, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Jason Andrew, Henry Kuttner, Cynthia Ward, George H. Scithers and John Gregory Betancourt, Milton Lesser, John Russell Fearn, Harry Harrison, Isaac Asimov, Ayn Rand, and many more
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23) Robot dreams
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Robot Dreams spans the body of Asimov's fiction from the 1940s to the mid-80s, and features classic Asimovian themes, from the scientific puzzle to the extraterrestrial thriller, all introduced in an exclusive essay written especially for this collection.
24) Sueños de robot
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Penguin Random House Audio
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2022
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¿Cómo influirán los robots en la vida de la humanidad?
¿Qué papel desempeñarán en un futuro más o menos lejano estos extraños mecanismos creados por el hombre casi a su imagen y semejanza?
Isaac simov nos brinda aquí unas narraciones que, sin lugar a dudas, moverán a reflexión.
Los lectores han dicho:
«Siempre he sido fan de Asimov y este libro es simplemente genial.»
«Con Isaac Asimov
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Featuring eight episodes of seven classic radio programs, this compelling collection of nostalgia will entertain listeners of all eras. Featured in this set are a live quiz show- You Bet Your Life, hosted by comic legend Groucho Marx- a thrilling segment of X-Minus One (" The C-Chute" ) written by science fiction icon Isaac Asimov, and the true crime program Gangbusters, hosted by former heavyweight...
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One moment Joseph Schwartz is a happily retired tailor in Chicago, 1949. The next he's a helpless stranger on Earth during the heyday of the first Galactic Empire.
Earth, as he soon learns, is a backwater, just a pebble in the sky, despised by all the other 200 million planets of the Empire because its people dare to claim it's the original home of man. And Earth is poor, with great areas of radioactivity ruining much of its soil-so poor that everyone...
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Isaac Asimov, known primarily for his science fiction stories, was also a scientist. In cooperation with the Senior Scholastic magazine, he composed this wonderful and fascinating work of historical nonfiction.
Twenty-six far-reaching discoveries and the twenty-nine scientists who made them-from Archimedes, who boasted he could move the world, to Goddard, who sent the first liquid-fuel rocket toward space.
These men of vision and genius set their...
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The Foundation Trilogy (BBC Radio)
Isaac Asimov's The Foundation Trilogy adapted in eight hour-long episodes by the BBC, first broadcast in 1973, and repeated in 1977 and 2002.
1 Episodes
1.1 Psychohistory and Encyclopedia
1.2 The Mayors
1.3 The Merchant Princes
1.4 The General
1.5 The Mule
1.6 Flight From The Mule
1.7 The Mule Finds
1.8 Star's End
2 Changes From The Written Trilogy
3 Principal Cast
4 External links
5 References
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30) Living Space
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Living Space by Isaac Asimov - Having mastered probability lanes, man found an indefinite number of Earths-and everyone could have a planet all to himself, if he wanted. But there was one joker in the deal...
Clarence Rimbro had no objections to living in the only house on an uninhabited planet, any more than had any other of Earth's even trillion of inhabitants.
If someone had questioned him concerning possible objections, he would undoubtedly have...
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LPodría decirse que Isaac Asimov, el mayor escritor de ciencia ficción que ha existido, poseía una de las mentes más brillantes y creativas del siglo XX. Su estilo cuidado y accesible, y sus intereses de largo alcance en temas que van desde la ciencia al humor, pasando por la historia, le valieron el apodo de «El gran narrador».
Esta es la historia del genio paradójico que escribió sobre viajes a las estrellas y se negó a volar en avión;...
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Eleven essential classics in one volumeThis last volume in the definitive collection of the best science fiction novellas published between 1929 and 1964 contains eleven great classics. No anthology better captures the birth of science fiction as a literary field.Published in 1973 to honor stories that had appeared before the institution of the Nebula Awards, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame introduced tens of thousands of young readers to the wonders...
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Lost Sci-Fi Books 161 thru 165 -
• The Sky Was Full of Ships by Theodore Sturgeon - They tried Gordon Kent for murder–but who was really responsible?
• He That Hath Wings by Edmond Hamilton - The story of a modern Icarus - David Rand was a freak of nature, a glorious, winged freak, who had experienced the freedom of the sky and could no longer be tied to the ground.
• The Pause by Isaac Asimov - The white powder was confined within a thin-walled,...
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A spellbinding novel set in the universe of Isaac Asimov's classic Galactic Empire series and Foundation series. Due to circumstances within our control ... tomorrow will be canceled. The Eternals, the ruling class of the Future, had the power of life and death not only over every human being but over the very centuries into which they were born. Past, Present, and Future could be created or destroyed at will. You had to be special to become an Eternal....
36) The naked sun
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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. On the beautiful Outer World planet of Solaria, a handful of human colonists lead a hermit-like existence, their every need attended to by their faithful robot servants. To this strange and provocative planet comes Detective Elijah Baley, sent from the streets of New York with his positronic...
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Random House Publishing Group
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2014
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The story of our future begins with the Foundation. Named the best series of all time by the Hugo Awards, the Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov unquestionably comprise one of the great masterworks of science fiction, unsurpassed for its unique blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building. Now, all seven volumes are together for the first time in this essential eBook bundle:
FOUNDATION
FOUNDATION AND EMPIRE
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FOUNDATION
FOUNDATION AND EMPIRE
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Robot series volume 1
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Fearing a violent confrontation between Earthmen and Spacers, Detective Baley and his new partner, a robot made in the image of the victim, investigate the murder of a Spacetown scientist.
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Fifteen fiction stories, 18 non-fiction and 20 essays on the craft of writing science fiction. One of the fiction pieces is Cal, on a robot who wants to be a writer. His owner, a writer, agrees to program him for the task, but when the robot outdoes the writer in his craft, switches him off.