I, Robot.

ASIMOV, Isaac.

Item Number: 125007

New York: Gnome Press, Inc. Publishers, 1950.

First edition of this groundbreaking collection of stories. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Bruce Lane with very best regards Isaac Asimov 26 Feb. 1951.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a small chip to the spine. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Signed first editions are uncommon.

In this collection, one of the great classics of science fiction, Asimov set out the principles of robot behavior that we know as the Three Laws of Robotics. Here are stories of robots gone mad, mind-reading robots, robots with a sense of humor, robot politicians, and robots who secretly run the world, all told with Asimov's trademark dramatic blend of science fact and science fiction. It includes "The Evitable Conflict." in which machines that have made the world of the twenty-first century an economic utopia take control of Mankind's future, moving it "toward an unknown and happy destiny" (Berger, Science Fiction and the New Dark Age). It is the basis for the 2004 film starring Bridget Moynahan, Bruce Greenwood, James Cromwell, Chi McBride, and Alan Tudyk.