Isaac Asimov
2) Foundation
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
The first novel in Isaac Asimov’s classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series
THE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THE APPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATION • Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory,...
THE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THE APPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATION • Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory,...
3) I, Robot
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Formats
Description
The three laws of Robotics: 1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm 2) A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. With these three, simple directives, Isaac Asimov changed our perception of robots forever when...
Author
Series
Galactic empires trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
One moment Joseph Schwartz is a happily retired tailor in 1949 Chicago. The next he's a helpless stranger on Earth during the heyday of the first Galactic Empire. Earth, he soon learns, is a backwater, just a pebble in the sky, despised by all the other 200 million planets of the Empire because its people dare to claim it's the original home of man. And Earth is poor, with great areas of radioactivity ruining much of its soil--so poor that everyone...
Author
Series
Foundation series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
For nearly fifty years, Isaac Asimov thrilled millions of readers with his internationally bestselling Foundation Series, a spell-binding tale of the future that spans hundreds of years and dozens of worlds. Here, now, is Forward the Foundation, the seventh and final volume in the series. Completed just before his death, it is the Grand Master's last gift to his legions of admirers. Here, at last, is the story Asimov fans have been waiting for, an...
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First Tor edition.
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Andrew Harlan is an Eternal, a member of the elite of the future. One of the few who live in Eternity, a location outside of place and time, Harlan's job is to create carefully controlled and enacted reality changes. These changes are small, exactingly calculated shifts in the course of history, made for the benefit of humankind. Though each change has been made for the greater good, there are also always costs. During one of his assignments, Harlan...
9) Robot dreams
Author
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
1990.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 21
Physical Desc
xvi, 384 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Contains a collection of short stories written by Isaac Asimov between 1940 through the 1980s, that explore the themes of science fiction, such as robotics, space travel, and aliens.
10) I, robot
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chicago, 2035. Detective Del Spooner distrusts robots. But why? The Three Laws of Robotics form a perfect circle of logic and protection for humans--all robots are "3 laws safe" from the instant they roll off the assembly line. When U.S. Robotics founder Dr. Alfred Lanning apparently commits suicide, Spooner is assigned to investigate. It appears that Dr. Lanning, the father of robotics, was murdered by a prototype of the latest generation robot,...
11) Nemesis
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[1989]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
364 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Robot series volume 4
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1985.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
383 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Dr. Kelden Amadiro is determined to bring total annihilation of the planet Earth, but Lady Gladia vows to stop him at any cost and seal Earth's fate and all who live there.
Author
Series
Second foundation trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy is one of the high-water marks of science fiction. It is the monumental story of a Galactic Empire in decline, and the secret society of scientists who seek to shorten the inevitable Dark Age with the science of psychohistory. Now, with the permission -- and blessing -- of the Asimov estate, the epic saga continues.
Fate -- and a cruel Emperor's arbitrary power -- have thrust Hari Seldon into the First Ministership...
19) Faeries
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English