Автор - Isaac Asimov

Soarele gol

Pe planeta Solaria, populată de un grup de colonişti ce trăiesc izolaţi unii de altii (nevoile lor fiind satisfăcute de servitori roboţi), are loc o crimă care sfidează toate Legile Roboticii, şocînd comunităţile Lumii exterioare. Dezlegarea misterului acestui asasinat revine detectivului new-yorkez Elijah Baley, ajutat de asistentul său, robotul R. Daneel Olivaw.

Spell My Name with an S

Originally published as “S as in Zebatinsky”.

Tales of the Black Widowers

Terre et Fondation

Mission surhumaine pour Golan Trevize : choisir le meilleur avenir pour l’humanité.Un avenir qui ne recréera pas les erreursde l’Empire galactique,entre le matérialisme de la Première Fondationet le mentalisme de la Seconde. Un avenir qui a pour modèle Gaïa, la planète pensante, et pour nom : Galaxia. Trevize a choisi mais il voudrait savoir pourquoi. Et la réponse à ses interrogations se trouve sur la Terre. Mais où la trouver, cette planète des origines, mystérieusement disparuede toutes les archives galactiques ? Trevize et ses deux compagnons, l’historien Pelorat et Joie, la belle Gaïenne, deviennent, bien malgré eux, trois personnagesen quête de Terre... Une quête qui va les mener de planète en planètejusqu’à ce but mythique, jusqu’à la révélation finale, qui leur fera découvrir que l’aventurene fait que commencer.

The Backward Look

The Caves of Steel

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 Lije 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!

The Dim Rumble

The Dying Night

The End of Eternity

A complex tale of time travel and time paradoxes, considered by some critics to be Asimov's finest work.“Asimov . . . at the height of his powers.”Brian Aldiss“Monumentally good ideas . . . fascinating.”Damon Knight

The Feeling of Power

The Gentle Vultures

From Robert Silverberg’s “Earthmen and Strangers” anthology, 1966: Randall Garrett’s story examined, from the viewpoint of the Earthmen, a possible encounter between our species and hostile aliens. In the story that follows, Isaac Asimov handles the same theme from the viewpoint of the aliens themselves. Suppose, he says, strangers from afar have been watching us for years. Suppose, too, that they are the overlords of a galactic empire, eager to add us to their dominion. How will they react, though, when they learn what sort of creatures we Earthmen really are? To them, we are the aliens—and we are terribly, frighteningly alien. Isaac Asimov, one of the science fiction’s ablest practitioners, rarely deals with galactic matters these days. The Boston-based Dr. Asimov, who taught biochemistry while writing such famed s-f novels as The Currents of Space and The Caves of Steel, now devotes himself to science fact with equal success. Though jovial and even boisterous in the flesh, Asimov is scholarly behind the typewriter, and he’s won acclaim for such standard reference items as The Intelligent Man’s Guide to Science and Asimov’s Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology.

The Gods Themselves

Only a few know the terrifying truth—an outcast Earth scientist, a rebellious alien inhabitant of a dying planet, a lunar-born human intuitionist who senses the imminent annihilation of the Sun. They know the truth—but who will listen? They have foreseen the cost of abundant energy—but who will believe? These few beings, human and alien, hold the key to the Earth’s survival.