

Paradoxically, they make a more effective continuous narrative without Asimov’s ham-fisted linking passages. These interventions don’t precede and end every story if they did there’d be eighteen of them there are in fact only seven and I think the stories are better without them. Susan Calvin, a pioneer of positronic robots and now 75 years old, tells each story to a reporter whose been sent to do a feature on her life. The stories are (sort of) woven together by a framing narrative in which the fictional Dr.

The nine stories originally appeared in the American magazines Super Science Stories and Astounding Science Fiction between 19, and were then compiled into a book for stand-alone publication by Gnome Press in 1950, in the same way that the Foundation trilogy also appeared as magazine short stories before being packaged up by Gnome. it is not a novel at all, but a collection of science fiction short stories.
