It’s in the collection, The Early Asimov.   Don’t spend a lot of money on it because you should be able to find a copy of this novella on it’s own around the internet somewhere.

After all the robot stories, we skip forward many years until humans have colonised lots of far flung systems.

Earth is overcrowded and under resourced so many people are wanting to go to the new frontiers, but the frontier has banned all immigration and won’t accept any more people from Earth.

But someone on Earth has a plan, the “Pacific Project”.

Another good story.

Next up is The Caves of Steel

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You can find this in Gold.

A single child family gets a sibling child-robot to hopefully tame down their unruly human child.

And things take an unexpected turn.

A good little story exploring the differences between feelings towards a real human child and a robot child, especially when one considers the behaviour of both towards their mother.

Next up is The Positronic Man.

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You can find this in Gold.

An author has a robot that expresses a desire to become a writer.   So the author gets several upgrades done to the robot in order for it to write stories.

With a good little twist at the end.

Next book is Kid Brother.

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You can find this in Robot Visions.

A bit far fetched, with Isaac rewriting the Fantastic Voyage but using a robot to cure cancer instead.

Does the cure work?

Can it be done again?

Or is it all just “too bad”.

Read it and find out.

Moving on, next up it’s Cal.

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You can find this in Robot Dreams.

This is a throw back story with Susan Calvin back at work.   Not sure where it’s supposed to fit in the general timeline of things though, so i’ll just leave it where it is.

A robot is having strange dreams and Susan is called in to consider what to do about it.

Another good little story.

And the next story will be Too Bad.

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You can find this in Robot Visions.

A not too intelligent robot is sent into the future to see if time travel is possible, and it is instructed to report back what it finds: if it actually gets back.

So, spoiler, it does get back and tells the humans about it’s visions of the future.

You’ll have to read the story if you want to know more.   It’s good though.

Next up is Robot Dreams.

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You can find this in The Complete Robot, The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories and Robot Visions.

This novella was later rewritten into a full novel, The Positronic Man, so you can either read both or just one of them.

Originally, U S Robots would sell robots to customers, but later changed to simply leasing them so they could maintain total control over what happened to their robots, recall them, modify them, replace whole model lines completely, etc..   But what ever happened to those that they sold and were never traded in for an upgrade?

This is the story of one such robot.

Another super good robot story.

Next up in the robot line is Robot Visions.

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You can find this in The Complete Robot and The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories.

U.S. Robots are under threat and need to find a way to stay afloat. &npsp; So the George series is created to solve the problem.

George Nine and George Ten get to work and save the day, but at what cost?

A really good ending to this one.

Next up is The Bicentennial Man.

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