The fate of the Foundation rests on young Arcadia Darell, only fourteen years old and burdened with a terrible secret. The Mule failed to find it the first time-but now he is certain he knows where it lies. But it is rumored that there is a Second Foundation hidden somewhere at the end of the Galaxy, established to preserve the knowledge of mankind through the long centuries of barbarism. As unsurpassed blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building, they chronicle the struggle of a courageous group of men and women dedicated to preserving humanity's light in a galaxy plunged into a nightmare of ignorance and violence thirty thousand years long.Īfter years of struggle, the Foundation lies in ruins-destroyed by the mutant mind power of the Mule. Isaac Asimov's Foundation novels are one of the great masterworks of science fiction. Now Baley and Olivaw are faced with two clear impossibilities:Įither the Solarian was killed by one of his robots - unthinkable under the laws of Robotics - or he was killed by the woman who loved him so much that she never came into his presence!.

Yet someone had gotten close enough to bludgeon him to death while robots looked on. The victim had been so reclusive that he appeared to his associates only through holographic projection. Daneel Olivaw, to solve an incredible murder that has rocked Solaria to its foundations. To this strange and provocative planet comes Detective Elijah Baley, sent from the streets of New York with his positronic partner, the robot R. 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. The colonization of the Galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain.

Of robot politicians, and robots who secretly run the world-all told with the dramatic blend of science fact and science fiction that has become Asmiov's trademark.Ī millennium into the future, two advancements have altered the course of human history: Here are stories of robots gone mad, of mind-read robots, and robots with a sense of humor. In I, Robot, Asimov chronicles the development of the robot through a series of interli nked stories: from its primitive origins in the present to its ultimate perfection in the not-so-distant future-a future in which humanity itself may be rendered obsolete. With these three, simple directives, Isaac Asimov changed our perception of robots forever when he formulated the laws governing their behavior. 1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harmĢ) A robot must obey orders givein to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.ģ) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

Un défilé de robots by Isaac Asimov