Автор - Isaac Asimov

The Last Question

The Martian Way

The Naked Sun

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 partner, the robot R. Daneel Olivaw, to solve an incredible murder that has rocked Solaria to its foundations. The victim had been so reclusive that he appeared to his associates only through holographic projection. Yet someone had gotten close enough to bludgeon him to death while robots looked on. Now Baley and Olivaw are faced with two clear impossibilities: Either 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!

The Robots of Dawn

A puzzling case of roboticide sends New York Detective Elijah Baley on an intense search for a murderer. Armed with his own instincts, his quirky logic, and the immutable Three Laws of Robotics, Baley is determined to solve the case. But can anything prepare a simple Earthman for the psychological complexities of a world where a beautiful woman can easily have fallen in love with an all-too-human robot…?

The Twelve Crimes of Christmas

The Ugly Little Boy

Originally published in Galaxy Magazine in Sep 1958 as Lastborn. Published under the present title in Nine Tomorrows short story collection in Feb 1959.

Tyrann

Ce roman d’Isaac Asimov, inédit en français, appartient au cycle de Trantor. Dans l’Empire galactique décli­nant, les despotes de la planète Tyrann contrôlent de nombreux mondes, dont la Terre. Biron Farrill, le fils d’un de leurs principaux opposants qu’ils ont assassiné, échappe de peu à un attentat et réussit à quitter la Terre. Il y est aidé par son vieux maître, Sander Jonti et, en compagnie de la jolie Artémisia, gagne alors Lingane, une planète où s’organise la résistance contre Tyrann. Là, il découvre que le chef des opposants et l’auteur de l’attentat qui faillit lui coûter la vie sont un seul et même homme : Sander Jonti. Comment parviendra-t-il à dis­tinguer ses amis véritables de ses ennemis ? Lui reste-t-il une chance de sauver sa vie et d’anéantir les maîtres de Tyrann pour venger son père ?

Un guijarro en el cielo

Joseph Schwartz paseaba ensimismado por las calles de Chicago. Levantó un pie en el siglo XX y se encontró con que lo había plantado en el año 827 de la Era Galáctica. Todavía estaba en la Tierra, pero en una época en que la Humanidad había colonizado la Galaxia y en la que los terrestres eran considerados parias condenados a la superficie de un mundo radiactivo. Joseph descubre los planes de los extremistas que amenazan la supervivencia de todo el Imperio Galáctico, y sólo él puede prevenir el desastre.

Utopia

The Caliban Trilogy is a searing examination of Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics, a challenge welcomed and sanctioned by Isaac Asimov, the late beloved genius of science fiction, and written with his cooperation by one of today’s hottest talents, Roger MacBride Allen, New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Ambush at Corella.

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Zeii înşişi

„Zeii înşişi” este scris în două cadre spaţiale: pământul şi un univers paralel. Cele două spaţii ajung să comunice prin crearea unei pompe. Pompa pare paradisul: ea produce cea mai bună formă de energie, inepuizabilă şi nepoluantă. Totuşi, unde a fost întâlnită vreodată perfecţiunea? În timp schimbul de energie dintre cele două planete va afecta Soarele, care va distruge Pământul. Creatorul pompei n-ar recunoaşte niciodată răul produs şi tocmai de aceea o serie de orgolii rănite şi dorinţe neîmplinite se înfruntă, fiind mai presus de binele planetei.