Asimov

Machines That Think: The Best Science Stories About Robots and Computers is an anthology edited by Isaac Asimov. It was first published by Holt, Rinehart, & Winston in 1983.

Contents[]

  • Robots, Computers, and Fear
  • Before the Electronic Age: A Nineteenth-Century Robot
    • Moxon's Master (by Ambrose Bierce)
  • First Robot Stories
    • The Lost Machine (by John Wyndham)
    • Rex (by Harl Vincent)
    • Robbie (by Isaac Asimov)
  • Myths of Creation
    • Farewell to the Master (by Harry Bates)
  • The Evolution of Intelligence
    • Robot's Return (by Robert Moore Williams)
    • Though Dreamers Die (by Lester del Rey)
    • Fulfillment (by A. E. van Vogt)
  • The Three Laws of Robotics
  • Two Views of Machine Intelligence: Satan or Savior?
    • I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (by Harlan Ellison)
    • The Evitable Conflict (by Isaac Asimov)
  • The Uses of Computers and Robots
    • A Logic Named Joe (by Murray Leinster)
    • Sam Hall (by Poul Anderson)
    • I Made You (by Walter M. Miller, Jr.)
    • Triggerman (by J. F. Bone)
    • War with the Robots (by Harry Harrison)
    • Evidence (by Isaac Asimov)
    • 2066: Election Day (by Michael Shaara)
    • If There Were No Benny Cemoli (by Philip K. Dick)
    • The Monkey Wrench (by Gordon R. Dickson)
    • Dial F for Frankenstein (by Arthur C. Clarke)
    • The Macauley Circuit (by Robert Silverberg)
    • Judas (by John Brunner)
    • Answer (by Fredric Brown)
  • What Is a Man?
    • The Electric Ant (by Philip K. Dick)
  • Machine Intelligence and Moral Issues
  • The Future of Man and His Machines
    • Long Shot (by Vernor Vinge)
    • Alien Stones (by Gene Wolfe)
    • Starcrossed (by George Zebrowski)
  • Bibliographies of Additional Reading

See Also[]

List of Books by Isaac Asimov