minguy

I'm currently building up my foundation/empire/robot novels and I need some advice. I want to read the robot short stories first as a primer but I don't know what collection to get.

Does The Complete Robot contain all the stories from I, Robot? On a side note, does it also contain his non-fiction robot essays from Robot Visions?

What about Isaac Asimov: The Complete Stories? I don't mind getting his non-robot short stories, but does Volume 1 (can't find info on any other volumes) contain any/some/all of the robot short stories?

There's so much overlapping in these compilations, it's a bit confusing.

Nick Danger

The Complete Robot used to consist of I, Robot and The Rest of the Robots. I don't think it even had the short story "The Bicentennial Man."

The Foundation Trilogy won the Hugo Award for best series before they made the award an annual event. Good stuff. I didn't read the later add-ons.

If I were you, I would start with stories and novels with original copyrights from the 1940s and 1950s, without worrying what universe they take place in. Asimov kind of declined when he got old.

Deckard-10

You might be interested in the following links:

A chronological listing of the Robot and Foundation series.
http://theages.superman.ws/users/mas...oundation.html

Timeline for the Robots and Foundation universe.
http://members.rogers.com/sikander17...oundation.html

littlefuzzy

I wonder where the Robot City books would fit (or Robots & Aliens.) These were a couple of shared-universe series. There is also a multiple author short story book called Foundation's Friends, and there are several robot novels (by Asimov or others) such as Caliban, Inferno, etc.