Books by Isaac Asimov

Book SynopsisUn eminente sabio, víctima de un intento de asesinato, yace en estado comatoso de un coágulo cerebral.Un eminente sabio, víctima de un intento de asesinato, yace en estado comatoso de un coágulo cerebral. En su mente lleva un secreto de extraordinaria importancia para la supervivencia del mundo libre. Una operación significaría su muerte. Entonces, un grupo de sabios resuelve miniaturizar a un equipo de médicos y técnicos, con todos sus aparatos, e inyectarlo en el sistema circulatorio del enfermo... Próxima parada: el cerebro.

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Book SynopsisIsaac Asimov, creador de la palabra ""robótica"" nos ofrece treinta y seis relatos cortos y ensayos sobre robots.Isaac Asimov, creador de la palabra "robótica" nos ofrece treinta y seis relatos cortos y ensayos sobre robots. Este libro extraordinario resume medio siglo de pensamiento acerca de los robots y de la robótica. Desde el mismo Robbie hasta los relatos de Susan Calvin, la primera robopsicóloga, pasando por Stephen Byerley, el robot humanoide, y el equipo de detectives formado por un hombre y un robot, Lije Baley y Daneel Olivaw.

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Book SynopsisIsaac Asimov’s seminal Foundation trilogy—one of the cornerstones of modern speculative fiction—in a single hardcover volume. • Winner of the Hugo Award for Best All-Time Series. • THE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THE APPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATION.   It is the saga of the Galactic Empire, crumbling after twelve thousand years of rule. And it is the particular story of psychohistorian Hari Seldon, the only man who can see the horrors the future has in store—a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and violence that will last for thirty thousand years. Gathering a band of courageous men and women, Seldon leads them to a hidden location at the edge of the galaxy, where he hopes they can preserve human knowledge and wisdom through the age of darkness.   In 1966, the Foundation trilogy received a Hugo Award for Best All-Time Series, and it remains the only fiction series to have been so honored. More than fifty years after t

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Book SynopsisIn the twenty-second century Earth obtains limitless, free energy from a source science little understands: an exchange between Earth and a parallel universe, using a process devised by the aliens. But even free energy has a price. The transference process itself will eventually lead to the destruction of the Earth's Sun—and of Earth itself.Only a few know the terrifying truth—an outcast Earth scientist, a rebellious alien inhabitant of a dying planet, a lunar-born human intuitionist who senses the imminent annihilation of the Sun. They know the truth—but who will listen? They have foreseen the cost of abundant energy—but who will believe? These few beings, human and alien, hold the key to Earth's survival.

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Book SynopsisThe second novel in Isaac Asimov’s classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation seriesTHE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THE APPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATIONLed by its founding father, the psychohistorian Hari Seldon, and utilizing science and technology, the Foundation survived the greed and barbarism of its neighboring warrior-planets. Now cleverness and courage may not be enough. For the Empire—the mightiest force in the Galaxy—is even more dangerous in its death throes. Even worse, a mysterious entity called the Mule has appeared with powers beyond anything humanly conceivable. Who—or what—is the Mule? And how is humanity to defend itself against this invulnerable avatar of annihilation? Filled with nail-biting suspense, nonstop action, and cutting-edge speculation, Foundation and Empire is the story of humanity’s perpetual struggle against the darkness that forever threatens to overwhelm the light—and of how the courage of even a determined few can make all the difference in the universe.

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Book SynopsisLa serie informalmente titulada Historia Universal Asimov reúne las obras dedicadas por el gran novelista y divulgador científico a la evolución política, cultural y material de la humanidad. ?Los Estados Unidos desde el final de la Guerra Civil hasta la Primera Guerra Mundial? cubre el período en que, tras la victoria de la Unión en 1865, la nación consolidó el espectacular crecimiento económico que, a partir de la victoria de la guerra contra España en 1898, le permitió afirmarse como gran potencia política y militar de la era del imperialismo, abriendo paso así a una tendencia que habría de culminar con la intervención en la Primera Guerra Mundial en 1917-1918.

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Book SynopsisEn El robot completo se recopilan los relatos de robots positrónicos, posiblemente la creación más celebrada de la prodigiosa imaginación de Isaac Asimov, ordenados temáticamente por el propio autor.Desde los primeros modelos no humanoides hasta la paradójica complejidad de los robots que desean ser humanos, pasando por los intrincados recovecos de comportamiento robótico inducido por las Tres Leyes, e incluyendo los famosos relatos de Yo, robot, así como los protagonizados por la sagaz robo-psicóloga Susan Calvin.

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