The following chapter, 'The Laws of Robotics', included stories that were written after the explicit formulation of the three laws, however both stories include elements that place them outside the Foundation universe. The first chapter, 'The Coming of the Robots', included some of Asimov's earliest robot stories, where the Three Laws of Robotics were not yet explicitly defined. The texts in the collection were grouped into four chapters, differentiating their central themes.

None of the short stories in this collection were in I, Robot, however all of them were later included in The Complete Robot, and both novels about Elijah Baley were also published separately. Another collection of short stories about robots, I, Robot, was re-published in the previous year, which is why Asimov chose to title the collection as The Rest of the Robots. The stories, centred on positronic robots, are all part of the Robot series, most of which take place in the Foundation universe. Isaac Asimov died in 1992 at the age of seventy-two.The Rest of the Robots is a collection of eight short stories and two full-length novels by American writer Isaac Asimov, published in 1964. Apart from his many world-famous science fiction works, Asimov also wrote highly successful detective mystery stories, a four-volume History of North America, a two-volume Guide to the Bible, a biographical dictionary, encyclopaedias, textbooks and an impressive list of books on many aspects of science, as well as two volumes of autobiography. With nearly five hundred books to his credit and several hundred articles, Asimov's output was prolific by any standards. He won the Hugo Award four times and the Nebula Award once. Thereafter he became a regular contributor to the leading SF magazines of the day including Astounding, Astonishing Stories, Super Science Stories and Galaxy. Increasingly, however, the pressure of chemical research conflicted with his aspirations in the literary field, and in 1958 he retired to fulltime authorship while retaining his connection with the university.Īsimov's fantastic career as a science fiction writer began in 1939 with the appearance of a short story, Marooned Off Vesta, in Amazing Stories. He graduated in chemistry and after a short spell in the Army he gained his doctorate in 1949 and qualified as an instructor in biochemistry at Boston University School of Medicine where he became Associate Professor in 1955, doing research in nucleic acid. He then went on to Columbia University and resolved to became a chemist rather than follow the medical career his father had in mind for him. A remarkable memory helped him finish high school before he was sixteen. He grew up in Brooklyn where he went to grammar school and at the age of eight he gained his citizen papers. Isaac Asimov, a world maestro of science fiction, was born in Russia near Smolensk in 1920 and brought to the United States by his parents three years later.

Un défilé de robots by Isaac Asimov