Series
Elijah Baley / R. Daneel Olivaw
Isaac Asimov & Rosemary Border · 5 novels · 1 novelette · 2 short stories · 1949–1985
The Robot series is a series of 37 science fiction short stories and six novels created by American writer Isaac Asimov; the books were published between 1940 and 1995. The series is set in a world where sentient positronic robots serve a number of purposes in society. To ensure their loyalty, the Three Laws of Robotics are programmed into these robots, with the intent of preventing them from ever becoming a danger to humanity. Later, Asimov merged the Robot series with his Foundation series.
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Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- The Caves of Steel abridgements(1 work)
- Omnibus editions(2 editions)
Map
Elijah Baley / R. Daneel Olivaw at the centre, 1 subseries around it, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1940s1
- 1950s2
- 1960s0
- 1970s2
- 1980s2
Shape
5 novels · 1 novelette · 2 short stories
2 authors
reads like:science fictionrobotsother star systemsfar futuremysteriousadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 57% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book7 of 8 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Mirror Imagedarkest
- Robots and Empirebrightest · most intense
- The Naked Suncalmest