Code of the Lifemaker
After a twenty-first-century colony ship is mysteriously rerouted from its original destination, its crew becomes increasingly alarmed when their leaders, who know the truth, are unwilling to discuss the matter. Reissue.
After a twenty-first-century colony ship is mysteriously rerouted from its original destination, its crew becomes increasingly alarmed when their leaders, who know the truth, are unwilling to discuss the matter. Reissue.
THE COMPLETE ROBOT is the definitive anthology of Asimov's stunning visions of a robotic future…
In these stories, Isaac Asimov creates the Three Laws of Robotics and ushers in the Robot Age: when Earth is ruled by master-machines and when robots are more human than mankind.
Contents
9 • Introduction (The Complete Robot) • (1982) • essay by Isaac Asimov
15 • A Boy's Best Friend • (1975) • short story by Isaac Asimov
19 • Sally • (1953) • short story by Isaac Asimov
41 • Someday • (1956) • short story by Isaac Asimov
55 • Point of View • [Multivac] • (1975) • short story by Isaac Asimov
59 • Think! • (1977) • short story by Isaac Asimov
70 • True Love • (1977) • short story by Isaac Asimov
77 • Robot AL-76 Goes Astray • (1942) • short story by Isaac Asimov
93 • Victory Unintentional • (1942) • short story by Isaac Asimov
117 • Stranger in Paradise • (1974) • novelette by Isaac Asimov
151 • Light Verse • (1973) • short story by Isaac Asimov
157 • Segregationist • (1967) • short story by Isaac Asimov
164 • Robbie • (1940) • short story by Isaac Asimov (variant of Strange Playfellow)
191 • Let's Get Together • (1957) • short story by Isaac Asimov
211 • Mirror Image • [Elijah Bailey / R. Daneel Olivaw] • (1972) • short story by Isaac Asimov
231 • The Tercentenary Incident • (1976) • short story by Isaac Asimov
253 • First Law • [Mike Donovan] • (1956) • short story by Isaac Asimov
257 • Runaround • [Mike Donovan] • (1942) • novelette by Isaac Asimov
280 • Reason • [Mike Donovan] • (1941) • short story by Isaac Asimov
302 • Catch That Rabbit • [Mike Donovan] • (1944) • short story by Isaac Asimov
329 • Liar! • [Susan Calvin] • (1941) • short story by Isaac Asimov
350 • Satisfaction Guaranteed • [Susan Calvin] • (1951) • short story by Isaac Asimov
368 • Lenny • [Susan Calvin] • (1958) • short story by Isaac Asimov
385 • Galley Slave • [Susan Calvin] • (1957) • novelette by Isaac Asimov
427 • Little Lost Robot • [Susan Calvin] • (1947) • novelette by Isaac Asimov
459 • Risk • [Susan Calvin] • (1955) • novelette by Isaac Asimov
490 • Escape! • [Susan Calvin] • (1945) • short story by Isaac Asimov
518 • Evidence • [Susan Calvin] • (1946) • novelette by Isaac Asimov
546 • The Evitable Conflict • [Susan Calvin] • (1950) • novelette by Isaac Asimov
575 • Feminine Intuition • [Susan Calvin] • (1969) • novelette by Isaac Asimov
605 • ... That Thou Art Mindful of Him • (1974) • novelette by Isaac Asimov (variant of —That Thou Art Mindful of Him!)
635 • The Bicentennial Man • (1976) • novelette by Isaac Asimov
683 • A Last Word • (1982) • essay by Isaac Asimov
THE COMPLETE ROBOT is the ultimate collection of timeless, amazing and amusing robot stories from the greatest science fiction writer of all time, offering golden insights into robot thought processes. Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics were programmed into real computers thirty years ago at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - with surprising results. Readers of today still have many surprises in store...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE'S FAVORITE STORIES
THE NINE BILLION NAMES OF GOD -- A short-term course for computer the way to God.
TROUBLE WITH TIME -- Martian time proves that crimes doesn't pay!
NO MORNING AFTER -- Drink, drink and be merry, for tomorrow there will be no morning after...
THE POSSESSED -- Or, why the lemmings drowned.
ENCOUNTER AT DAWN -- The day the gods came to Earth.
THE SENTINEL -- The story which inspired 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY; when man sets off the galactic burglar alarm, who will answer the call?
The author of The Gate to Women's Country and Grass weaves a moving story of one man's coming to accept his role in a far future universe, providing a brilliant exploration of relations between the sexes, the value of religion, and mankind's place in the universe.
Mary Doria Russell's debut novel, The Sparrow, took us on a journey to a distant planet and into the center of the human soul. A critically acclaimed bestseller, The Sparrow was chosen as one of Entertainment Weekly's Ten Best Books of the Year, a finalist for the Book-of-the-Month Club's First Fiction Prize and the winner of the James M. Tiptree Memorial Award. Now, in Children of God, Russell further establishes herself as one of the most innovative, entertaining and philosophically provocative novelists writing today.
The only member of the original mission to the planet Rakhat to return to Earth, Father Emilio Sandoz has barely begun to recover from his ordeal when the Society of Jesus calls upon him for help in preparing for another mission to Alpha Centauri. Despite his objections and fear, he cannot escape his past or the future.
Old friends, new discoveries and difficult questions await Emilio as he struggles for inner peace and understanding in a moral universe whose boundaries now extend beyond the solar system and whose future lies with children born in a faraway place.
Strikingly original, richly plotted, replete with memorable characters and filled with humanity and humor, Children of God is an unforgettable and uplifting novel that is a potent successor to The Sparrow and a startlingly imaginative adventure for newcomers to Mary Doria Russell’s special literary magic.
Omnibus with two complete novels and a novella in one large volume. This collection shows Miles and Ekaterin meeting (Komarr), getting to know each other as Miles tries to court her (A Civil Campaign), and the wedding (Winterfair Gifts), and, of course, Miles dealing with assorted family relationships. Miles deals with political problems along the way plus recounts the loves of his life to Ekaterin. ...none of them would marry him; they all went on to lead successful lives--so unlike her life on Komarr. The last on his list was Rian: "And what does she do now?" ... "Now, She's an empress" ... "Can I take a number and get in line?" ... "The next number up", he breathed, "is one".
Contents:
Komarr: Miles Vorkosigan is sent to Komarr, a planet that could be a garden with a thousand more years of terraforming; or an uninhabitable wasteland, if the terraforming project fails. The solar mirror vital to the project has been shatteredby a ship hurtling off course, and Miles Vorkossigan has been sent to find out if it was an accident, or sabotage. Miles uncovers a plot that could exile him from Barrayar forever - and discovers an unexpected ally, one with wounds as deep and honor as beleaguered as his own.
A Civil Campaign: On Komarr, Miles met the beautiful Vor widow Ekaterin Vorsoisson, who has no intention of getting married after the heartbreak and betrayal of her first experience. But Miles has a cunning plan to change her mind. Unfortunately his clone-brother Mark and his cousin Ivan have cunning plans of their own, and the three-way collision of cunning plans threatens to undo Miles' brilliant romantic strategy.
"Winterfair Gifts": Miles and Ekaterin make elaborate preparations for their wedding. But Miles has an enemy who is plotting to turn the romantic ceremony into a festival of death.
Perfect for longtime fans and new readers alike—this eBook collection includes all six original novels in the Dune Saga written by Frank Herbert.
In the far future, on a remote planet, an epic adventure awaits. Here are the first six novels of Frank Herbert’s magnificent Dune saga—a triumph of the imagination and one of the bestselling science fiction series of all time.
The Dune Saga begins on the desert planet Arrakis with the story of the boy Paul Atreides—who would become known as Muad’Dib—and of a great family’s ambition to bring to fruition humankind’s most ancient and unattainable dream....
Includes Books 1 - 6: DUNE • DUNE MESSIAH • CHILDREN OF DUNE • GOD EMPEROR OF DUNE • HERETICS OF DUNE • CHAPTERHOUSE: DUNE
A determined group of colonists are attempting to establish a bridgehead on the planet Pandora, despite the savagery of the native lifeforms, as deadly as they are inhospitable. But they have more to deal with than just murderous aliens: their ship's computer has been given artificial consciousness and has decided that it is a God. Now it is insisting—with all the not inconsiderable force of its impressive array of armaments to back it up—that the colonists find appropriate ways to worship It.
This is the 6th Pocket printing.
Cover Artist: Harry Bennett
An unearthly voice hisses unholy welcome. And the late, great Allen Carpentier begins his one-way journey into the dim nether regions where flame-colored demons wield diabolically sharp pitchforks and tormented vixens reign forever in a pond of sheer ice. Here, in this land of torment and terror, he discovers the amazing truth of the ultimate adventure that lies beyond the grave.
Frank Herbert -"The somber beauty of INFERNO brought up to the twentieth century with care and humor and with some sins Dante didn't even suspect."