Isaac Asimov
1) I, robot
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In this collection, one of the great classics of science fiction, Asimov set out the principles of robot behavior that we know as the Three Laws of Robotics. Here are stories of robots gone mad, mind-reading robots, robots with a sense of humor, robot politicians, and robots who secretly run the world, all told with Asimov's trademark dramatic blend of science fact and science fiction.
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Robot volume 1
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A millennium into the future two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. Isaac Asimov’s Robot novels chronicle the unlikely partnership between a New York City detective and a humanoid robot who must learn to work together.
Like most people left behind on an over-populated Earth, New York City police detective Elijah Baley had...
Like most people left behind on an over-populated Earth, New York City police detective Elijah Baley had...
3) Foundation
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Foundation volume 3
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English
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For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire had ruled supreme. Now it was dying. But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, could see into the future-a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that would last thirty thousand years.
4) Venus
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Describes some of the various features of the planet Venus and how we have learned what we know.
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Foundation volume 6
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Interplanetary intrigue, hyperspace pursuit, and future technology combine with a desperate search for the planet Earth.
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Foundation volume 7
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Continues the Foundation trilogy. Golan Trevise, former councliman of the First Foundation, is entrusted with formidable task--to determine the future of Galactic development.
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Isaac Asimov was one of our most beloved authors, and when he died in 1992 at the age of seventy-two he left behind an unparalleled legacy of thought and imagination. In a career that lasted more than fifty years, he wrote more than 470 books and innumerable articles and short stories, winning the hearts of millions of readers around the world. Perhaps best known as one of science fiction's founding fathers, he wrote the novels that defined the genre...
9) Jupiter
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Gareth Stevens Pub
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2002.
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English
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A description of Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, which includes information on its numerous moons, space probes which have studied it, and the 1994 collision of comet remnants with the planet.
10) Mars
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Gareth Stevens Pub
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2002.
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English
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A description of Mars, the fourth planet from our sun, which includes information on the controversy over possible life on Mars, on the planet's moons, and on space probes and spacecraft which have studied it.
11) Saturn
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Gareth Stevens Pub
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2002.
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English
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A description of Saturn, the second largest planet in our solar system, which includes information on its numerous moons, and spacecraft and probes which study it.
12) Uranus
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Gareth Stevens Pub
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2002.
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English
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Introduces the third largest known planet in the solar system.
13) Neptune
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Gareth Stevens Pub
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2002.
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English
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Introduces the fourth largest known planet in the solar system.
14) Earth
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Gareth Stevens Pub
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2002.
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English
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A description of Earth, the third planet from the sun, which includes information on its origins, composition, and unique characteristics.
15) Mercury
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Gareth Stevens Pub
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2002.
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Describes the planet closest to the sun, examining its size and composition, its surface features, its orbit, and efforts to learn more about this planet.
16) Asteroids
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Gareth Stevens Pub
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2002.
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English
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Introduces the bodies in space also known as planetoids, minor planets, or when they stray from their paths, meteoroids.
17) The sun
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Gareth Stevens Pub
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2002.
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English
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A description of the sun, the star of our solar system, which includes information on its origin, physical composition, and characteristics, as well as on studies made of the sun by instruments and satellites.
18) Fantastic voyage
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Through the process of miniaturization, five people enter a tiny submarine and are injected into a man's circulatory system where they try to destroy a blood clot located in his brain.
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One moment Joseph Schwartz is a happily retired tailor in Chicago, 1949. The next he's a helpless stranger on Earth during the heyday of the first Galactic Empire. Earth, as 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...