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<h2 id="contents">Contents</h2> <h3>Introduction: The Robot Chronicles</h3> <p>An 18-page introductory essay by <a href="/facts/Isaac_Asimov/11oRajCj">Asimov</a>, consisting of 17 pages of text and a one-page illustration by <a href="/facts/Ralph_McQuarrie/6Eg2BtNl">Ralph McQuarrie</a> (these are the page counts of the hardcover edition). This essay (minus the illustration) was later reprinted in Asimov's collection <i><a href="/facts/Gold_(Asimov)/Nnw519Bp">Gold</a></i>. </p> <h3>Stories</h3> <table><tbody><tr><th scope="col">Title</th><th scope="col">Year</th><th scope="col">First appeared</th></tr><tr><th scope="row">"Robot Visions"</th><td>1990</td><td>First appeared in this collection</td></tr><tr><th scope="row">"Too Bad!"</th><td>1989</td><td>First appeared in <i>The Microverse</i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row">"<a href="/facts/Robbie_(short_story)/JIbAbBmM">Robbie</a>"</th><td>1940</td><td>First appeared in <i><a href="/facts/Super_Science_Stories/t3CR8QPJ">Super Science Stories</a></i> under the title "Strange Playfellow”</td></tr><tr><th scope="row">"<a href="/facts/Reason_(short_story)/obWHpK14">Reason</a>"</th><td>1941</td><td>First appeared in <i><a href="/facts/Astounding_Science_Fiction/wlsqI7yY">Astounding Science Fiction</a></i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row">"<a href="/facts/Liar!_(short_story)/XQ1JFBg0">Liar!</a>"</th><td>1941</td><td>First appeared in <i>Astounding Science Fiction</i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row">"<a href="/facts/Runaround_(story)/ljv6buN9">Runaround</a>"</th><td>1942</td><td>First appeared in <i>Astounding Science Fiction</i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row">"<a href="/facts/Evidence_(short_story)/csrK5ubW">Evidence</a>"</th><td>1946</td><td>First appeared in <i>Astounding Science Fiction</i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row">"<a href="/facts/Little_Lost_Robot/za77ju1u">Little Lost Robot</a>"</th><td>1947</td><td>First appeared in <i>Astounding Science Fiction</i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row">"<a href="/facts/The_Evitable_Conflict/2GQCRtvl">The Evitable Conflict</a>"</th><td>1950</td><td>First appeared in <i>Astounding Science Fiction</i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row">"<a href="/facts/Feminine_Intuition/aeQtwmS7">Feminine Intuition</a>"</th><td>1969</td><td>First appeared in <i><a href="/facts/The_Magazine_of_Fantasy_and_Science_Fiction/ujDc829K">The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction</a></i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row">"<a href="/facts/The_Bicentennial_Man/P7h6y787">The Bicentennial Man</a>"</th><td>1976</td><td>First appeared in <i>Stellar</i> #2</td></tr><tr><th scope="row">"<a href="/facts/Someday_(short_story)/u8Yl9oPU">Someday</a>"</th><td>1956</td><td>First appeared in <i><a href="/facts/Infinity_Science_Fiction/TwvMNkL0">Infinity Science Fiction</a></i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row">"<a href="/facts/Think!_(Asimov_short_story)/j2xjMmsg">Think!</a>"</th><td>1977</td><td>First appeared in <i><a href="/facts/Isaac_Asimov%27s_Science_Fiction_Magazine/q6GEJEDF">Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine</a></i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row">"<a href="/facts/Segregationist_(short_story)/eJKbEsGI">Segregationist</a>"</th><td>1967</td><td>First appeared in <i>Abbotempo 4</i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row">"<a href="/facts/Mirror_Image_(short_story)/y9Utb99g">Mirror Image</a>"</th><td>1972</td><td>First appeared in <i><a href="/facts/Analog_Science_Fiction_and_Fact/wlsqI7yY">Analog: Science Fiction - Science Fact</a></i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row">"<a href="/facts/Lenny_(short_story)/gaFjmvVV">Lenny</a>"</th><td>1958</td><td>First appeared in <i>Infinity Science Fiction</i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row">"<a href="/facts/Galley_Slave/msKrywRq">Galley Slave</a>"</th><td>1957</td><td>First appeared in <i>Astounding Science Fiction</i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row">"Christmas Without Rodney"</th><td>1988</td><td>First appeared in <i>Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine</i></td></tr></tbody></table> <h3>Essays</h3> <table><tbody><tr><th scope="col">Title</th><th scope="col">Year</th><th scope="col">First appeared</th></tr><tr><th scope="row">"Robots I Have Known"</th><td>1954</td><td>First appeared in <i>Computers and Automation</i>, October 1954</td></tr><tr><th scope="row">"The New Teachers"</th><td>1976</td><td>First appeared in <i><a href="/facts/American_Way_(magazine)/DMSC1y6e">American Way</a></i> magazine</td></tr><tr><th scope="row">"Whatever You Wish"</th><td>1977</td><td>First appeared in <i>American Way</i> magazine</td></tr><tr><th scope="row">"The Friends We Make"</th><td>1977</td><td>First appeared in <i>American Way</i> magazine</td></tr><tr><th scope="row">"Our Intelligent Tools"</th><td>1977</td><td>First appeared in <i>American Way</i> magazine</td></tr><tr><th scope="row">"The Machine and the Robot"</th><td>1978</td><td></td></tr><tr><th scope="row">"The Laws of Robotics"</th><td>1979</td><td>First appeared in <i>American Way</i> magazine</td></tr><tr><th scope="row">"The New Profession"</th><td>1979</td><td>First appeared in <i>American Way</i> magazine</td></tr><tr><th scope="row">"The Robot As Enemy?"</th><td>1979</td><td>First appeared in <i>American Way</i> magazine</td></tr><tr><th scope="row">"Intelligences Together"</th><td>1979</td><td>First appeared in <i>American Way</i> magazine</td></tr><tr><th scope="row">"My Robots"</th><td>1987</td><td></td></tr><tr><th scope="row">"The Laws of Humanics"</th><td>1987</td><td></td></tr><tr><th scope="row">"Cybernetic Organism"</th><td>1987</td><td></td></tr><tr><th scope="row">"The Sense of Humor"</th><td>1988</td><td></td></tr><tr><th scope="row">"Robots in Combination"</th><td>1988</td><td></td></tr><tr><th scope="row">"Future Fantastic"</th><td>1989</td><td>First appeared in <i>Special Reports</i> magazine, Spring 1989</td></tr></tbody></table> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?517297"><i>Robot Visions</i></a> title listing at the <a href="/facts/Internet_Speculative_Fiction_Database/3pvkKL6m">Internet Speculative Fiction Database</a></li> <li><a href="https://openlibrary.org/works/OL46337W"><i>Robot Visions</i></a> at <a href="/facts/Open_Library/A13NLNNh">Open Library</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Asimov, Isaac: Robot Visions, p. 17. Roc, 1990. <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>