Now she was retiring - as much as she ever could. For fifty years, she watched the direction of human progress change and leap ahead. Lawrence Robertson was still president of the corporation Alfred Lanning had become director of research. and joined United States Robots as a “Robopsychologist,” becoming the first great practitioner of a new science. She learned to calculate the parameters necessary to fix the possible variables within the “positronic brain” to construct “brains” on paper such that the responses to given stimuli could be accurately predicted. The miles of relays and photocells had given way to the spongy globe of plantinumiridium about the size of a human brain. All that had been done in the mid-twentieth century on “calculating machines” had been upset by Robertson and his positronic brain-paths. She obtained her bachelor’s degree at Columbia in 2003 and began graduate work in cybernetics. But as she watched and listened, she felt the stirrings of a cold enthusiasm. She was a frosty girl, plain and colorless, who protected herself against a world she disliked by a masklike expression and a hypertrophy of intellect. Susan said nothing at that seminar took no part in the hectic discussion period that followed. It was a large, clumsy unbeautiful robot, smelling of machine-oil and destined for the projected mines on Mercury. Robots had demonstrated the first mobile robot to be equipped with a voice. At the age of twenty, Susan Calvin had been part of the particular Psycho-Math seminar at which Dr. Calvin’s birth that Lawrence Robertson had first taken out incorporation papers for what eventually became the strangest industrial giant in man’s history. was seventyfive also, since it had been in the year of Dr. Susan Calvin had been born in the year 1982, they said, which made her seventy-five now.

Robots and might as well have spent them at home with the Encyclopedia Tellurica. Introduction I LOOKED AT MY NOTES AND I DIDN’T LIKE THEM. The Evitable Conflict, copyright © 1950 by Street and Smith Publications, Inc.ĬONTENTS Introduction. Little Lost Robot, copyright © 1947 by Street and Smith Publications, Inc. Evidence, copyright © 1946 by Street and Smith Publications, Inc. Escape, copyright © 1945 by Street and Smith Publications, Inc. Catch That Rabbit, copyright © 1944 by Street and Smith Publications, Inc.

Liar! copyright © 1941 by Street and Smith Publications, Inc. The following stories were originally published in Astounding Science Fiction: Reason, copyright © 1941 by Street and Smith Publications, Inc. CAMPBELL, JR, who godfathered THE ROBOTS The story entitled Robbie was first published as Strange Playfellow in Super Science Stories.

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