Because Robot City has no spaceport, space ships or any way to radio for help, their only hope is to find the Key of Perihelion, an advanced transporting device that brought them to Robot City, and use it to transport elsewhere.
Isaac Asimov's Robot City, a series of novels written by various authors and loosely connected to Isaac Asimov's Robot Series
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His illustrations for book covers include Galaxies and The Sun by Isaac Asimov, Evil Earths by Brian Aldiss, Ability Quotient by Mack Reynolds, Homefaring by Robert Silverberg and one of his most famous, The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin.
Asimov's Guide to the Bible is a work by Isaac Asimov that was first published in two volumes in 1967 and 1969, covering the Old Testament and the New Testament (including the Catholic Old Testament, or deuterocanonical, books and the Eastern Orthodox Old Testament books, or anagignoskomena, along with the Fourth Book of Ezra), respectively.
Isaac Asimov's short story What's in a Name? (1956) introduced the Beilstein "Handbook of Organic Chemistry" as an important plot element.
Pennington's works have largely featured on the covers of novels of the likes of Isaac Asimov, Clark Ashton Smith and Robert A. Heinlein, adopting both science fiction and fantastical themes.
His art has adorned the covers of books by such luminaries as Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, C. J. Cherryh, Stephen King, Gene Wolfe, Michael Moorcock, and Raymond E. Feist.
Bensen was a member of the all-male literary banqueting club the Trap Door Spiders, which served as the basis of Isaac Asimov's fictional group of mystery solvers the Black Widowers.
He translated modern Russian, English and French literature (e.g. Isaac Asimov's Foundation) into Slovak.
All the Frugalware releases except "Genesis" have been named after planets in science fiction books by Isaac Asimov.
Isaac Asimov stated explicitly that the Galactic Empire whose fall is depicted in his Foundation Series is modeled on the Roman Empire.
Cant was a member of the all-male literary banqueting club the Trap Door Spiders, which served as the basis of Isaac Asimov's fictional group of mystery solvers the Black Widowers.
During that period, he also edited Grosset & Dunlap's Science Fiction Classics series, which he conceived as an inexpensive alternative to hard-to-find small-press editions of such titles as Robert A. Heinlein's Beyond This Horizon and Isaac Asimov's I, Robot, although the first title in the series (Henry Kuttner's Fury) was that story's first book publication.
Before his death he filmed a television adaptation of Isaac Asimov's "The Ugly Little Boy" which aired in 1977 on TVOntario.
"Asimov's a menace, he's written 800 books, and I just have to translate them all!"
The episode title is a spoof on the short story collection I, Robot by Isaac Asimov and the earlier short story of the same title by Eando Binder, although the plot of the episode has little to do with the original stories.
In Memory Yet Green: The Autobiography of Isaac Asimov, 1920–1954, is the first volume of Isaac Asimov's two-volume autobiography.
Inertialessness, though not for faster-than-light travel, is discussed in Robert A. Heinlein’s Methuselah's Children, Isaac Asimov's short story The Billiard Ball, Larry Niven’s Known Space universe, Orson Scott Card's Speaker for the Dead, Arthur C. Clarke's 3001: The Final Odyssey, and
During development for Dead Space, EA Redwood Shores (now Visceral Games) gave Isaac a portmanteau of two science fiction writers, Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke.
Sladek was also known for his parodies of other science fiction writers, such as Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, and Cordwainer Smith.
He was a member of the all-male literary banqueting club the Trap Door Spiders, which served as the basis of Isaac Asimov's fictional group of mystery solvers the Black Widowers.
Dilov described in his 1974 novel The Trip of Icarus the Fourth Law of Robotics extending the original three laws proposed by Isaac Asimov: A robot must establish its identity as a robot in all cases.
According to the biography printed in many of his books, his influences include the science-fiction writers Isaac Asimov, A. E. van Vogt, Poul Anderson and Philip José Farmer and the crime writers Rex Stout and Andrea Camilleri.
His most famous book is The Fifth Law of Robotics, published in 1983, the title being a reference to Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics and the fifth law being that a robot must know that it is a robot.
Norby The Mixed-Up Robot (1983) is the first book in the Norby series by Janet Asimov and Isaac Asimov.
Science fiction was one of the major genres published by Panther Books and titles included Ray Bradbury's The Golden Apples of the Sun and Asimov's Foundation Trilogy.
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992), who used this pseudonym for the Lucky Starr juvenile books
During his career he has provided book covers for a slew of prolific science fiction and fantasy authors including Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Greg Bear, Larry Niven, Philip K. Dick, Marion Zimmer Bradley and Harry Harrison.
In the Foundation series by Isaac Asimov, First Citizen is the title taken by the Mule and his successors in their position as leader of the Union of Worlds.
A related system was hypothesized by Isaac Asimov in his short story "Franchise" (1955: reprinted in Earth Is Room Enough, Doubleday, 1957), where a single voter is chosen to decide each election.
Isaac Asimov used Scripsit running on a TRS-80 Model II Computer for over nine years, and wrote over 11 million words with the program.
Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke are two of the three people on earth which Shaiwatna Kupratakul wish most to meet personally, the third person is Einstein.
According to the novel Backwards, the concept of Silicon Heaven was eventually replaced with a variant on Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics.
The idea of social thermodynamics shows some similarities to the fictional science of psychohistory in Isaac Asimovs Foundation series.
Isaac Asimov received a letter congratulating him on an accidental prediction of alpha-particle RAM errors in a 1950s novel.
The term was coined by Isaac Asimov in his essay "The Thalassogens", later published in his 1972 collection The Left Hand of the Electron.
The stories were previously published in 1988 in the magazines Interzone, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Omni, Amazing Stories, and Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, the collection Dance Band on the Titanic, and the anthology Other Edens II.
A folk song called "The Chemist's Drinking Song" is set to this tune with lyrics by John A. Carroll, based on an idea by Isaac Asimov.
World Season Calendar, proposed by Isaac Asimov in 1973 and almost identical to the World Calendar
The album's packaging makes reference to a number of other science fiction names corrupted over two centuries — Phettt (Boba Fett), Hein Len (Robert A. Heinlein), Seaclarc (Arthur C. Clarke), A.C Mov (Isaac Asimov), and Kaydich (Philip K. Dick) — as well as to the Roddenberry and Lucas "Sacred StarTexts".
It and its spin-off Sōgen SF Bunko since 1991, are Japan's oldest existing sci-fi bunkobon label, publishing over 600 books until April 2013 including the works of Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, Ray Bradbury, J. G. Ballard, Philip K. Dick, Lois McMaster Bujold, Vernor Vinge, James P. Hogan, Kim Stanley Robinson, Robert Charles Wilson, and Greg Egan.
Like Isaac Asimov, he is "on fire to explain," and doesn't "indulge in scholarly depth."
The company name is a reference to the fiction of Isaac Asimov, who is credited with inventing the term robotics.
Virginia "Ginny" Heinlein (April 22, 1916 – January 18, 2003), born Virginia Doris Gerstenfeld, was a chemist, biochemist, engineer, and the third wife of Robert A. Heinlein, a prominent and successful author once known as one of the "Big Three" of science fiction (along with Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke).
As in Isaac Asimov's earlier Foundation series, humanity has colonized a galaxy in which there are no competing intelligent species.
He has written novels using the Three Laws of Robotics invented by Isaac Asimov, including two entries in the Robot City series and the entire Robots in Time series.
This concept is elaborated somewhat in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series, where "psychohistory" is used to predict and manipulate social and political developments.