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I, Robot, is a collection of stories that establish and raise the problems of the three laws of robotics that are a fixed and essential compendium of morality applicable to so-called intelligent robots. The stories raise different situations that different robotics specialists will have to face, and in which paradoxes and ingenious intellectual exercises are raised that tell about the situation of the present man in the technological universe. The protagonist of v
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In the Space Enclave, just outside New York City, a scientist from the Foreign Worlds has appeared killed. Detective Elijah Baley has to deal with this case in the disquieting and hateful company of a humanoid robot, R. Daneel Olivaw.
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A wise eminent, who has been the victim of an attempted murder, lies, in a comatose state, because of a blood clot in the brain. In his mind he carries a secret of extraordinary importance for the survival of the free world. An operation would mean his death. So, a group of sages decides to miniaturize a team of doctors and technicians, with all their devices, and to inject it into the patient's circulatory system, in order to destroy the clot from the inside..
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Asimov speaks in this work of the moon and other small worlds that populate our solar system; he deals with carbon, the discovery of DNA, the function of the thyroid gland, microorganisms and the speed of light; he reflects on social issues as important as racism and the future of the media.
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In this book, Asimov offers us 24 stories of excellent science-fiction, in which there are some suggestive situations that deal from the evolution of the human species to the hypothetical future relationships between beings of different galaxies. This author has an amazing symbiosis between the scientist and the writer.
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The planet Kalgash is on the brink of chaos, but only a few people have noticed it. Kalgash knows only the life day light, for for more than two millennia the combination of its six suns has illuminated the sky. However, now the darkness is beginning to reign.
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