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Octavo, illustrated by Edd Cartier, cloth. Influential collection of short fiction about robots with first postulation of the "Three Laws of Robotics," a concept used for plots in numerous tales by other writers in subsequent years. Includes "The Evitable Conflict." in which machines that have made the world of the twenty-first century an economic utopia take control of Mankind's future, moving it "toward an unknown and happy destiny." - Berger, Science Fiction and the New Dark Age, pp. 36-7. Loose basis for the recent film of the same title. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-49. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 995-99]. Genre bookplate affixed to front paste down (hidden by front flap) spine ends slightly bruised, a fine copy in a nearly fine to fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing to the corners and small patch in to the upper spine panel. The spine shows no fade and this presents as a lovely copy. (30703).

I, Robot is a collection of nine science fiction short stories by Isaac Asimov, first published in 1950. It was Asimov's first book of robot stories, containing tales of positronic robots that are often conflicting with the famous Three Laws of Robotics.