Isaac Asimov's Robot Series
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Isaac Asimov's Robot Series is a series of books by Isaac Asimov, both collections of short stories and novels.

They were not initially conceived as a set, but rather all feature his positronic robots -- indeed there are some inconsistencies among them, especially between the short stories and the novels.

The final four robot novels comprise the Elijah Baley (sometimes Lije Baley) series and are mysteries starring the Terran human Elijah Baley and his humaniform robot partner, R. Daneel Olivaw.

Shortly before his death in 1992, Asimov approved an outline for three novels (Caliban, Inferno, Utopia) by Roger MacBride Allen, set between Robots and the Empire and the Empire Series, telling the story of the terraforming of the Spacer world Inferno, and about the robot revolution started by creating a No Law Robot and then New Law Robots.

There is also another set of novels by various authors (Isaac Asimov's Robots series/Robot City series/Robots and Aliens series/Robots in Time series) loosely connected to the Robots Series, but they contain many inconsistencies with Asimov's books, and are not generally considered canon.

Robot short stories

• I, Robot (1950), the first collection of Asimov's robot stories, which were all included in The Complete Robot, but it contains also interesting binding text (Mind and Iron), no longer in The Complete Robot.
• The Complete Robot (1982), Collection of Asimov stories written between 1940 and 1976.
• Robot Dreams, Anthologized in a book with the same title.
• The Positronic Man (1992), A novel based on Asimov's short story The Bicentennial Man, co-written by Robert Silverberg
• Mother Earth (1949), in The Early Asimov

The Robot novels

• The Caves of Steel (1954)
• The Naked Sun (1957)
• The Robots of Dawn (1983)
• Robots and Empire (1985)

The Caliban trilogy

• Isaac Asimov's Caliban (1993) by Roger MacBride Allen
• Isaac Asimov's Inferno (1993) by Roger MacBride Allen
• Isaac Asimov's Utopia (1993) by Roger MacBride Allen

Asimov later integrated the Robot Series into his all-engulfing Foundation series. Some contortion was required to explain how the robots of the Elijah Baley novels are almost completely absent from the Empire Series. In reality, this was due to the magazine editor Asimov worked with at the time (John W. Campbell) disliking robots in science fiction, and discouraging (forbidding?) Asimov from including them.

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