Robot Visions is a collection of science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 short stories and factual essays by Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov was an American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. Asimov was one of the most prolific writers of all time, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000...

. Many of the stories are reprinted from other Asimov collections, particularly I, Robot

I, Robot

I, Robot is a collection of nine science fiction short stories by Isaac Asimov, first published by Gnome Press in 1950 in an edition of 5,000 copies. The stories originally appeared in the American magazines Super Science Stories and Astounding Science Fiction between 1940 and 1950. The stories are...

and The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories

The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories

The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories is a science fiction anthology written and edited by Isaac Asimov . Following the usual form for Asimov collections, it consists of eleven short stories and a poem surrounded by commentary describing how each came to be written...

. It also includes the title story, "Robot Visions" (written specifically for this collection), which combines Asimov's motifs of robots and of time travel

Time travel

Time travel is the concept of moving between different points in time in a manner analogous to moving between different points in space. Time travel could hypothetically involve moving backward in time to a moment earlier than the starting point, or forward to the future of that point without the...

. It is the companion book to Robot Dreams

Robot Dreams

Robot Dreams is a collection of science fiction short stories by Isaac Asimov, illustrated by Ralph McQuarrie. The title story is about Susan Calvin's discovery of a robot with rather disturbing dreams. It was written specifically for this volume and inspired by the McQuarrie cover illustration...

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Introduction: The Robot Chronicles

An 18-page introductory essay by Asimov

Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov was an American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. Asimov was one of the most prolific writers of all time, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000...

, consisting of 17 pages of text and a one-page illustration by Ralph McQuarrie

Ralph McQuarrie

Ralph McQuarrie is a conceptual designer and illustrator who designed Star Wars , the original Battlestar Galactica , E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Cocoon, for which he won an Academy Award....

 (these are the page counts of the hardcover edition). This essay (minus the illustration) was later reprinted in Asimov's collection Gold

Gold (Asimov)

Gold: The Final Science Fiction Collection is a collection of Isaac Asimov's stories and essays. The stories, which comprise its first half, are short pieces which had remained uncollected at the time of Asimov's death. As such, they have been criticized by some as inept or below par—what the...

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Stories

Title	Year	First appeared
"Robot Visions"	1990	First appeared in this collection
"Too Bad!"	1989	First appeared in The Microverse
"Robbie"	1940	First appeared in Super Science Stories Super Science Stories Super Science Stories was an American pulp science fiction magazine published by Popular Publications from 1940 and 1943, and again from 1949 to 1951. Popular launched it under their "Fictioneers" imprint, which they used for magazines paying writers less than one cent per word... under the title "Strange Playfellow”
"Reason Reason (Asimov) Reason is an science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov that was first published in the April 1941 issue of Astounding Science Fiction and collected in I, Robot , The Complete Robot , and Robot Visions... "	1941	First appeared in Astounding Science Fiction
"Liar! Liar! "Liar!" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in the May 1941 issue of Astounding Science Fiction and was reprinted in the collections I, Robot and The Complete Robot . It was Asimov's third published positronic robot story... "	1941	First appeared in Astounding Science Fiction
"Runaround Runaround "Runaround" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov, featuring his recurring characters Powell and Donovan. It was written in October 1941 and first published in the March 1942 issue of Astounding Science Fiction... "	1942	First appeared in Astounding Science Fiction
"Evidence Evidence (Asimov) Evidence is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the September 1946 issue of Astounding Science Fiction and reprinted in the collections I, Robot , The Complete Robot , and Robot Visions .Many people choose to see Asimov's treatment of technophobia as an... "	1946	First appeared in Astounding Science Fiction
"Little Lost Robot Little Lost Robot "Little Lost Robot" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the March 1947 issue of Astounding Science Fiction and reprinted in the collections I, Robot , The Complete Robot , Robot Dreams , and Robot Visions ."Little Lost Robot" was adapted by Leo Lehman for... "	1947	First appeared in Astounding Science Fiction
"The Evitable Conflict The Evitable Conflict The Evitable Conflict is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in the June 1950 issue of Astounding Science Fiction and subsequently appeared in the collections I, Robot , The Complete Robot , and Robot Visions .-Plot summary:The "Machines", powerful positronic computers... "	1950	First appeared in Astounding Science Fiction
"Feminine Intuition"	1969	First appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
"The Bicentennial Man The Bicentennial Man The Bicentennial Man is a novella in the Robot Series by Isaac Asimov. It was awarded the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award for best science fiction novelette of 1976.... "	1976	First appeared in Stellar #2
"Someday Someday (short story) Someday is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the August 1956 issue of Infinity Science Fiction and reprinted in the collections Earth Is Room Enough , The Complete Robot , Robot Visions , and The Complete Stories, Volume 1 .-Plot summary:The story is set in a... "	1956	First appeared in Infinity Science Fiction
"Think! Think! (Asimov short story) Think! is a science-fiction short story by Isaac Asimov that first appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine in its very first issue... "	1977	First appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine
"Segregationist Segregationist (Asimov) "Segregationist" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. The story was written in April 1967 and was first published in December in Abbottempo, a magazine produced by Abbott Laboratories, then later included in the collections Nightfall and Other Stories , The Complete Robot and Robot... "	1967	First appeared in Abbotempo 4
"Mirror Image"	1972	First appeared in Analog: Science Fiction - Science Fact Analog Science Fiction and Fact Analog Science Fiction and Fact is an American science fiction magazine. As of 2011, it is the longest running continuously published magazine of that genre...
"Galley Slave Galley Slave "Galley Slave" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov, originally published in Galaxy, December 1957, and included in the collection The Rest of the Robots. Asimov identified it as his favorite among those of his robot stories featuring the character of Susan Calvin.The story is a... "	1957	First appeared in Astounding Science Fiction
"Lenny"	1958	First appeared in Infinity Science Fiction
"Christmas Without Rodney"	1988	First appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine

Essays

Title	Year	First appeared
"Robots I Have Known"	1954	First appeared in Computers and Automation, October 1954
"The New Teachers"	1976	First appeared in American Way magazine
"Whatever You Wish"	1977	First appeared in American Way magazine
"The Friends We Make"	1977	First appeared in American Way magazine
"Our Intelligent Tools"	1977	First appeared in American Way magazine
"The Laws of Robotics"	1979	First appeared in American Way magazine
"Future Fantastic"	1989	First appeared in Special Reports magazine, Spring 1989
"The Machine and the Robot"	1978
"The New Profession"	1979	First appeared in American Way magazine
"The Robot As Enemy?"	1979	First appeared in American Way magazine
"Intelligences Together"	1979	First appeared in American Way magazine
"My Robots"	1987
"The Laws of Humanics"	1987
"Cybernetic Organism"	1987
"The Sense of Humor"	1988
"Robots in Combination"	1988