![]() Upon their publication in this collection, Asimov wrote a framing sequence presenting the stories as Calvin's reminiscences during an interview with her about her life's work, chiefly concerned with aberrant behaviour of robots and the use of " robopsychology" to sort out what is happening in their positronic brain. ![]() Robots and Mechanical Men, Inc., the major manufacturer of robots. ![]() Several of the stories feature the character of Dr. Although the stories can be read separately, they share a theme of the interaction of humans, robots, and morality, and when combined they tell a larger story of Asimov's fictional history of robotics. Susan Calvin tells each story to a reporter (who serves as the narrator) in the 21st century. The stories are woven together by a framing narrative in which the fictional Dr. The stories originally appeared in the American magazines Super Science Stories and Astounding Science Fiction between 19 and were then collected into a 1950 publication Gnome Press in 1950, in an initial edition of 5,000 copies. I, Robot is a fixup collection made up of science fiction short stories by American writer Isaac Asimov. ![]()
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