The Bicentennial Man
Author: | Isaac Asimov |
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Ballantine Books, 1976 |
Series: | The Positronic Robot Stories |
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Book Type: | Novelette |
Genre: | Science-Fiction |
Sub-Genre Tags: | Robots/Androids Artificial Intelligence Near-Future |
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Synopsis
Hugo, Nebula and Locus Award winning novelette. It originally appeared in the anthology Stellar #2 (1976) edited by Judy-Lynn del Rey. It has been reprinted many times and can be found in the anthologies:
- The 1977 Annual World's Best SF, edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
- The Best Science Fiction of the Year #6 (1977), edited by Terry Carr
- Nebula Winners Twelve (1978), edited by Gordon R. Dickson
- The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction (1980), edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
- Machines That Think: The Best Science Fiction Stories About Robots and Computers (1984) edited by Isaac Asimov, Patricia S. Warrick and Martin H. Greenberg
- Philosophy and Science Fiction (1984) edited by Michael Philips
- The Hugo Winners, Volume 4: (1976-79) (1985), edited by Isaac Asimov
The story is included in the collections:
- The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories (1976)
- Opus 200 (1979)
- The Complete Robot (1982)
- The Asimov Chronicles: Fifty Years of Isaac Asimov (1989)
- Robot Visions (1990)
- The Complete Stories, Volume 2 (1992)
The story was later expanded into the novel The Positronic Man (1992), written in collaboration with Robert Silverberg. It has been turned into a movie starring Robin Williams.
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