Robot Dreams is a collection of science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 short stories

Short story

A short story is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. This format tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels. Short story definitions based on length differ somewhat, even among professional writers, in part because...

 by Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov was an American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. Asimov was one of the most prolific writers of all time, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000...

, illustrated by Ralph McQuarrie

Ralph McQuarrie

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. The title story is about Susan Calvin's

Susan Calvin

Dr. Susan Calvin is a fictional character from Isaac Asimov's Robot Series. She was the chief robopsychologist at US Robots and Mechanical Men, Inc., the major manufacturer of robots in the 21st century...

 discovery of a robot

Robot

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 with rather disturbing dreams. It was written specifically for this volume and inspired by the McQuarrie cover illustration. All of the other stories had previously appeared in various other Asimov collections. Four of the stories are robot stories, while five are Multivac

Multivac

Multivac is the name of a fictional supercomputer in many stories by Isaac Asimov. According to his autobiography In Memory Yet Green, Asimov coined the name in imitation of UNIVAC, an early mainframe computer...

 stories.

The companion book, which also showcases McQuarrie's illustrations (and includes Asimov essay

Essay

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s in addition to short stories), is entitled Robot Visions

Robot Visions

Robot Visions is a collection of science fiction short stories and factual essays by Isaac Asimov. Many of the stories are reprinted from other Asimov collections, particularly I, Robot and The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories...

.

Contents

It contains the following stories:

• "Little Lost Robot
  Little Lost Robot
  "Little Lost Robot" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the March 1947 issue of Astounding Science Fiction and reprinted in the collections I, Robot , The Complete Robot , Robot Dreams , and Robot Visions ."Little Lost Robot" was adapted by Leo Lehman for...
  
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• "Robot Dreams
  Robot Dreams (Asimov short story)
  "Robot Dreams" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov exploring the unbalance of robot/human relationships under Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics.-Publication:...
  
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• "Breeds There a Man...?
  Breeds There a Man...?
  "Breeds There a Man...?" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the June 1951 issue of Astounding and reprinted in the 1967 collection Through a Glass, Clearly and the 1969 collection Nightfall and Other Stories.-Plot summary:Elwood Ralson, a brilliant but...
  
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• "Hostess
  Hostess (short story)
  "Hostess" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the May 1951 issue of Galaxy and reprinted in the 1969 collection Nightfall and Other Stories.-Plot summary:...
  
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• "Sally"
• "Strikebreaker"
• "The Machine that Won the War
  The Machine that Won the War
  The Machine that Won the War is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. The story first appeared in the October 1961 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and was reprinted in the collections Nightfall and Other Stories and Robot Dreams...
  
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• "Eyes Do More Than See
  Eyes Do More Than See
  Eyes Do More Than See is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov.In 1964, Playboy magazine approached several science fiction writers to create short-short stories based on a photograph of a clay head without ears. The selected stories--Arthur C. Clarke's "Playback", Frederik Pohl's...
  
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• "The Martian Way
  The Martian Way
  The Martian Way is a science fiction novella by Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the November 1952 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction and reprinted in the collections The Martian Way and Other Stories , The Best of Isaac Asimov , and Robot Dreams...
  
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• "Franchise"
• "Jokester"
• "The Last Question
  The Last Question
  "The Last Question" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in the November 1956 issue of Science Fiction Quarterly and was reprinted in the collections Nine Tomorrows , The Best of Isaac Asimov , Robot Dreams , the retrospective Opus 100 , and in Isaac Asimov: The...
  
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• "Does a Bee Care?
  Does a Bee Care?
  Does a Bee Care? is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. It was first published in If: Worlds of Science Fiction in June 1957, and reprinted in the 1975 collection Buy Jupiter and Other Stories...
  
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• "Light Verse
  Light Verse (short story)
  Light Verse is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the September-October 1973 issue of The Saturday Evening Post. It later appeared in the collections Buy Jupiter and Other Stories , The Complete Robot , and Robot Dreams...
  
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• "The Feeling of Power
  The Feeling of Power
  The Feeling of Power is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. The story first appeared in the February 1958 issue of If: Worlds of Science Fiction, and was reprinted in the 1959 collection Nine Tomorrows, the 1969 retrospective Opus 100, and the 1986 collection Robot Dreams...
  
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• "Spell My Name with an S
  Spell My Name with an S
  "Spell My Name with an S" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. The story first appeared in the January 1958 issue of Star Science Fiction under the title S as in Zebatinsky, and was reprinted in the 1959 collection Nine Tomorrows under Asimov's original title...
  
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• "The Ugly Little Boy
  The Ugly Little Boy
  "The Ugly Little Boy" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. The story first appeared in the September 1958 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction under the title "Lastborn", and was reprinted under its current title in the 1959 collection Nine Tomorrows. The story deals with a Homo...
  
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• "The Billiard Ball
  The Billiard Ball
  "The Billiard Ball" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov, written in September 1966 and first published in the March 1967 issue of If. It appeared in Asimov's 1968 collection Asimov's Mysteries, in his 1973 collection The Best of Isaac Asimov in his 1986 Collection Robot Dreams and in...
  
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• "True Love"
• "The Last Answer
  The Last Answer
  The Last Answer is a science-fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the January 1980 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact, and reprinted in the collections The Winds of Change and Other Stories , The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov and Robot Dreams...
  
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• "Lest We Remember
  Lest We Remember
  Lest We Remember is a science fiction short story written by Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in the February 1982 Asimov's and was reprinted in the collections The Winds of Change and Other Stories and Robot Dreams .-Plot summary:...
  
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External links

• Robot dreams from Google Books