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The Machine and the Robot

Isaac Asimov

First published 1978
Type Essay

Machines and robots supplanting humanity is a theme in dystopian fiction but it may actually be a natural and desirable phase of evolution.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1978 Cover Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology: The SFWA-SFRA Anthology Harper & Row Anthology 244
June 1978 Cover Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology: The SFWA-SFRA Anthology Harper & Row Anthology 244
April 1981 Cover Asimov on Science Fiction Doubleday & Company Nonfiction 153
July 1981 Cover Asimov on Science Fiction Doubleday / SFBC Nonfiction 145
April 1982 Cover Asimov on Science Fiction Discus / Avon Nonfiction 129
1983 Cover Asimov on Science Fiction Granada Nonfiction 153
1984 Cover No Mundo da Ficção Científica Francisco Alves Nonfiction
April 1984 Cover Guida alla fantascienza Mondadori Nonfiction 106
1990 Cover Robot Visions Guild Publishing Collection 344
April 1990 Cover Robot Visions Roc / Penguin Collection 432
September 1990 Robot Visions Gollancz Collection 344
March 1991 Cover Robot Visions Roc / New American Library Collection 432
May 1991 Cover Robot Visions VGSF / Victor Gollancz Collection 344
1992 Cover Visões de robot Publicações Europa-América Collection
1992 Cover On the Past, Present & Future - 66 Essays Barnes & Noble Books Nonfiction 53
September 1993 Cover Robot Visions VGSF / Gollancz Collection |39
1996 Cover Visões de Robô Record Collection
February 1997 Cover Robot Visions Vista Collection |39
1998 Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology: The SFWA-SFRA Anthology HarperCollins Anthology
April 2001 Cover Robot Visions Gollancz Collection |39
2002 Cover Visões de Robô Record Collection
July 2004 Cover Robot Visions Roc / New American Library Collection 432
September 2015 Cover Robot Visions Recorded Books Collection |344