Isaac Asimov
1) I, robot
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Pub. Date
2004.
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English
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The three laws of Robotics: 1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm 2) A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. With these three, simple directives, Isaac Asimov changed our perception of robots forever when...
2) The sun
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Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
A description of the sun, the star of our solar system, which includes information on its origin, physical composition, and characteristics, as well as on studies made of the sun by instruments and satellites.
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Foundation series volume 4
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
Led by its founding father, the great psychohistorian Hari Seldon, and taking advantage of its superior science and technology, the Foundation has survived the greed and barbarism of its neighboring warrior-planets. Yet now it must face the Empire, still the mightiest force in the Galaxy even in its death throes. When an ambitious general determined to restore the Empire's glory turns the vast Imperial fleet toward the Foundation, the only hope for...
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Galactic empires trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Fleeing an unknown assassin after surviving a radiation bomb planted in his dorm room, University of Earth student Biron Farrill is outraged by the subsequent murder of his father and caught up in a deep-space rebellion.
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Galactic empires trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Joseph Schwartz is a happily retired Chicago tailor in 1949 Chicago. Trapped in an incredible future he could barely comprehend, the unlikely time traveler would soon become a pawn in a desperate conspiracy to bring down the Empire in a twist of agony and death: a mad plan to restore Earth's tarnished glory by ending human life on every other world.--
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Foundation series volume 5
Pub. Date
2008, 1953.
Language
English
Description
After years of struggle, the Foundation lies in ruins destroyed by the mutant mind power of the Mule. But it is rumored that there is a Second Foundation hidden somewhere at the end of the Galaxy, established to preserve the knowledge of mankind through the long centuries of barbarism. The Mule failed to find it the first time but now he is certain he knows where it lies. The fate of the Foundation rests on young Arcadia Darell, only fourteen years...
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Galactic empires trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
An oppressed laborer on the planet of Florina, Rik resigns himself to a life of hard work and the poor regard of people who believe him to be mentally impaired before he begins to recover memories of an imminent disaster.
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Series
Foundation series volume 6
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
At last, the costly and bitter war between the two Foundations had come to an end. The scientists of the First Foundation had proved victorious; and now they retum to Hari Seldon's long-established plan to build a new Empire that the Second Foundation is not destroyed after all-and that its still-defiant survivors are preparing their revenge. Now the two exiled citizens of the Foundation-a renegade Councilman and the doddering historian-set out in...
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Foundation series volume 7
Pub. Date
2004, c1986
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English
Description
The fifth novel in Asimov's popular Foundation series opens with second thoughts. Councilman Golan Trevize is wondering if he was right to choose a collective mind as the best possible future for humanity over the anarchy of contentious individuals, nations and planets. To test his conclusion, he decides he must know the past and goes in search of legendary Earth, all references to which have been erased from galactic libraries. The societies encountered...
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Series
Foundation series volume 2
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
For nearly fifty years, Isaac Asimov thrilled millions of readers with his internationally bestselling Foundation Series, a spell-binding tale of the future that spans hundreds of years and dozens of worlds. Here, now, is Forward the Foundation, the seventh and final volume in the series. Completed just before his death, it is the Grand Master's last gift to his legions of admirers. Here, at last, is the story Asimov fans have been waiting for, an...
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Robot series volume 3
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
Detective Elijah Bailey and his robot partner R. Daneel Olivaw are sent to the Spacer world of Aurora to solve a bizarre case of roboticide.
15) Nemesis
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Pub. Date
[1989]
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English
Description
A space colony arrives at a planet only to find it is slated for destruction.
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Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
A collection of stories, mixing fiction and non-fiction. Most of the fiction pieces belong to a series about a man and his demon, while the non-fiction pieces discuss the craft of science fiction and fantasy writing. The author analyzes the work of famous writers, including his own.
19) La tierra
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Pub. Date
2004.
Language
Español
Description
A description of Earth, the third planet from the sun, which includes information on its origins, composition, and unique characteristics.