Au sommaire de ce volume :• Fondation• Seconde Fondation• Fondation et EmpireAu début du treizième millénaire, l'Empire n'a jamais été aussi puissant. A Trandor, le savant H. Seldon invente la psychohistoire, à base de psychologie et de mathématiques, elle permet de prédire l'avenir : l'effondrement de l'Empire dans cinq siècles, à condition de mener à terme le projet de la Fondation, communauté de scientifiques chargée de rassembler toutes les connaissances humaines.

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Quand Elijah Baley arrive sur Aurora, il pressent qu'il va au-devant de sa plus périlleuse mission. Il s'agit en effet pour lui de découvrir qui, pour la première fois dans la galaxie, s'est rendu coupable du meurtre de Jander Panell, le robot positronique le plus sophistiqué jamais créé, une créature atteignant un degré d"humanité" très supérieur à tout ce que le Dr Susan Calvin aurait pu imaginer. Or le seul être qui possédait les compétences nécessaires pour commettre un tel crime n'est autre que son propre concepteur, le Dr Fastolfe ! Heureusement, Baley sera à nouveau assisté sur cette affaire de Daneel Olivaw, désormais l'unique robot humaniforme encore en activité...

Les robots de l'aube

Arguably the greatest science fiction writer who ever lived, Isaac Asimov also possessed one of the most brilliant and original minds of our time. His accessible style and far-reaching interests in subjects ranging from science to humor to history earned him the nickname "the Great Explainer." I. Asimov is his personal story—vivid, open, and honest—as only Asimov himself could tell it.Here is the story of the paradoxical genius who wrote of travel to the stars yet refused to fly in airplanes; who imagined alien universes and vast galactic civilizations while staying home to write; who compulsively authored more than 470 books yet still found the time to share his ideas with some of the great minds of our century. Here are his wide-ranging thoughts and sharp-eyed observations on everything from religion to politics, love and divorce, friendship and Hollywood, fame and mortality. Here, too, is a riveting behind-the-scenes look at the varied personalities—Campbell, Ellison, Heinlein, Clarke, del Rey, Silverberg, and others—who along with Asimov helped shape science fiction.As unique and irrepressible as the man himself, I. Asimov is the candid memoir of an incomparable talent who entertained readers for nearly half a century and whose work will surely endure into the future he so vividly envisioned.

Moi, Asimov

The second volume in an extraordinary collection published shortly after the author's death. There are 23 science fiction stories, ranging from the very surprising heart-tugger "The Ugly Little Boy" to the overwhelming vision of "Nightfall". In these stories, Asimov's vivid awareness of the potential of technology is translated into human dilemmas.

 The definitive collection of short fiction by Isaac Asimov, supreme master of the science fiction genre continues with Volume Two of the Complete Stories. The Good Doctor was always ahead of his time and his work stands today as the clearest expression of our collective hopes and fears for the future. But the ever-expanding popularity of his stories with young and old readers alike is explained by their wit, zest and human interest.

 Within this volume are stories often voted among the best science fiction stories of all time. In these stories Asimov's vivid awareness of the potential of technology is translated into human dilemmas that are more relevant today than ever before.

The Complete Stories Volume II

Faut-il désintégrer le président des Etats-Unis qui a tant fait pour le pays et dont on sait maintenant qu'il est un robot ? A-t-on le droit d'empêcher un artiste de faire fortune avec ses œuvres sous prétexte qu'il n'est qu'un robot ? Avec les douze récits de ce recueil, Isaac Asimov retrouve Susan Calvin, la célèbre robotpsychologue du livre des Robots, et jongle sans cesse avec les célèbres trois lois de la robotique.

L'Homme bicentenaire

Andrew Harlan is an Eternal, a man whose job it is to range through past and present Centuries, monitoring and, where necessary, altering Time's myriad cause-and-effect relationships. But when Harlan meets and falls for a non-Eternal woman, he seeks to use the awesome powers and techniques of the Eternals to twist time for his own purposes, so that he and his love can survive together.

La fin de l'éternité

The best time-travel story since H.G. Wells's The Time Machine, by the Grand Master of science fiction, the story of Andrew Harlan, Technician and Eternal.

End of eternity, the

Meet Azazel...He's two centimeters tall. He's fiery red. He has magical powers strong enough to wreck a normal human's life...all with the best intentions, of course.George Bitternut, an eccentric linguist and deadbeat, stumbles onto an ancient incantation that calls forth this diminutive demon of astonishing wizardry. Unfortunately, Azazel refuses to do anything for George's personal gain—but he agrees to help out a few of his friends.With Dr. Asimov himself as eager audience, George recounts eighteen episodes of life with Azazel—disastrous, hilarious episodes that could only spring from the science fiction's most fertile imagination.Contents:* The Two-Centimeter Demon* One Night of Song* The Smile that Loses* To the Victor* The Dim Rumble* Saving Humanity* A Matter of Principle* The Evil Drink Does* Writing Time* Dashing Through the Snow* Logic Is Logic* He Travels the Fastest* The Eye of the Beholder* More Things in Heaven and Earth* The Mind's Construction* The Fights of Spring* Galatea* Flight of Fancy

Azazel

Sommaire :En attendant les olympiens (1988, Waiting for the olympians) de POHL FrederikMes nuits chez Harry (1987, Why I left Harry's all-night hamburgers) de WATT-EVANS LawrencePlus près de toi, mon dieu (1985, Tunicate, wild thou be mine) de SHEFFIELD CharlesPortrait de dame avec dragon (étude sur Anne McCaffrey) (1990) de GOIMARD Jacques [Article]Insignifiance (1988, Flatline) de WILLIAMS Walter JonAu revoir, Cynthia (1988, Good bye, Cynthia) de MURPHY PatLa lune et Michel-Ange (1987, The moon and Michelangelo) de WATSON IanLe lupanar ambulant de Ginny Hanches-de-velours (1987, Ginny Sweethip's flying circus) de BARRETT Neal Jr.

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