Robot Visions

Overview:

  • Title: Robot Visions
  • Author: Isaac Asimov
  • Year: 1991
  • ISBN-10: 057505056X
  • Publisher: VGSF / Victor Gollancz
  • Price: £5.99
  • Pages: 383
  • Binding: Trade Paperback
  • Type: Collection
  • Title Reference: Liar!
  • Notes:
    Dated 1st printing of this VGSF edition. Title page:
    • "Isaac Asimov [over] Robot Visions [over] Illustrated by Ralph Mcquarrie (sic) [over] A Byron Preiss Visual Publications, Inc. Book"
    • "VGSF"
    Copyright page:
    • "VGSF is an imprint of Victor Gollancz Ltd [over] 14 Henrietta Street, London WC2E 8QJ"
    • "First published in Great Britain 1990 [over] by Victor Gollancz Ltd"
    • "First VGSF edition 1991"
    • "Copyright © 1990 Byron Preiss Visual Publications, Inc."
    • "Copyright © Introduction, 1990 by The Robot Chronicles, Nightfall, Inc."
    • "Copyright © Illustrations, 1990 Byron Preiss Visual Publications, Inc."
    • "ISBN 0-575-05056-X"
    • "Printed and bound in Great Britain by [over] Guernsey Press Co. Ltd, Guernsey, Channel Isles"
    • No numberline.
    Back cover:
    • "Cover illustration: Ralph McQuarrie"
    • "£5.99 net" (no other pricing)
    • "ISBN 0-575-05056-X"
    • Barcode: "9 780575 050563 00599"
    Spine:
    • "VGSF"
    Month and day from Amazon UK as of 2023-04-17. Contents on first numbered pages 7-8. McQuarrie's illustrations to Too Bad! and Galley Slave are reversed, left-to-right, to the descriptions given in the title records. At the end of Robots I Have Known, on page 327: "*This essay was written in 1954. (etc)". The date has been corrected from 1956 as it appeared, in error, in the Roc / Penguin hc edition. Gloss cover.

    Acknowledgements (unnumbered pps.5-6) "Too Bad!" copyright © by Nightfall, Inc. First appeared in The Microverse, [over] November 1989. "Robbie," copyright © 1940 by Fictioneers, Inc., renewed copyright © 1967 by [over] Isaac Asimov. First appeared under title "Strange Playfellow" in Super Science [over] Stories, September 1940 (period missing) "Reason," copyright © 1941 by Street & Smith Publications, Inc., renewed [over] copyright © 1968 by Isaac Asimov. First appeared in Astounding Science Fiction, [over] April 1941. "Liar!" copyright © 1941 by Street & Smith Publications, Inc., renewed [over] copyright © 1968 by Isaac Asimov. First appeared in Astounding Science [over] Fiction, May 1941. "Runaround," copyright © 1942 by Street & Smith Publications, Inc., renewed [over] copyright © 1968 by Isaac Asimov. First appeared in Astounding Science [over] Fiction, April 1941. "Evidence," copyright © 1946 by Street & Smith Publications, Inc., renewed [over] copyright © 1973 by Isaac Asimov. First appeared in Astounding Science [over] Fiction, September 1946. "Little Lost Robot," copyright © 1947 by Street & Smith Publications, Inc., [over] renewed copyright © 1974 by Isaac Asimov. First appeared in Astounding [over] Science Fiction, March 1947. "The Evitable Conflict," copyright © 1950 by Street & Smith Publications, Inc., [over] renewed copyright © 1977 by Isaac Asimov. First appeared in Astounding [over] Science Fiction, June 1950. "Feminine Intuition," copyright © 1969 by Mercury Press, Inc. First appeared [over] in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1969. "The Bicentennial Man," copyright © 1976 by Random House, Inc. First [over] appeared in Stellar #2. "Someday," copyright © 1956 by Royal Publications, Inc. First appeared in [over] Infinity Science Fiction, August 1956. "Think!" copyright © 1977 by Davis Publications, Inc. First appeared in Isaac [over] Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Spring 1977. "Segregationist," copyright © 1967 by Abbott Universal Ltd. First appeared in [over] Abbottempo 4. "Mirror Image," copyright © 1972 by Condé Nast Publications, Inc. First [over] appeared in Analog: Science Fiction—Science Fact, May 1972. "Lenny," copyright © 1957 by Royal Publications, Inc. First appeared in [over] Infinity Science Fiction, January 1958. "Galley Slave," copyright © 1957 by Galaxy Publishing Corporation. First [over] appeared in Astounding Science Fiction, May 1941. "Christmas Without Rodney," copyright © 1988 by Davis Publications, Inc. [over] First appeared in Isaac Asimov Science Fiction Magazine, December 1988. "Robots I Have Known," copyright © 1954 by Edmund Callis Berkeley, [over] appeared in "Computers and Automation," October 1954. "The New Teachers," copyright © 1976 by American Airlines. "Whatever You Wish," copyright © 1977 by American Airlines. "The Friends We Make," copyright © 1977 by American Airlines. "Our Intelligent Tools," copyright © 1977 by American Airlines. "The Laws of Robotics," copyright © 1979 by American Airlines. "Future Fantastic," copyright © 1989 by Whittle Communications, L.P. First [over] appeared in Special Reports magazine, Spring 1989. "The Machine and the Robot," copyright © 1978 by Science Fiction Research [over] Associates and Science Fiction Writers of America. "The New Profession," copyright © 1979 by American Airlines. "The Robot As Enemy," (sic) copyright © 1979 by American Airlines. "Intelligences Together," copyright © 1979 by American Airlines. "My Robots," copyright © 1987 by Nightfall, Inc. "The Laws of Humanics," copyright © 1987 by Nightfall, Inc. "Cybernetic Organism," copyright © 1987 by Nightfall, Inc. "The Sense of Humor," copyright © 1988 by Nightfall, Inc. "Robots in Combination," copyright © 1988 by Nightfall, Inc. "Cover painting by Ralph McQuarrie" "Editorial Consultant: Martin H. Greenberg"