With rumors of the Earth creating a weapon called the Pacific Project, the Auroreans shrug off the idea that their civilization is in danger and continually use authoritarian means to suppress those who wanted to help Earth. With a historian looking back in time, the story goes back 150 years into the past when Aurora, a planet, gets permission to introduce positronic robots into their community. The novella tells the story of Earth facing a confrontation with its colonies in the Outer Worlds. ‘ Mother Earth’ is a science fiction novella published in May 1949. After revealing that he had turned himself human, the World President declares him a bicentennial man. Andrew becomes a celebrated inventor, and deciding that he wants to be a man, he sets his age limit to 200 years. Robotics, Andrew gets an android body, and with his research on Robo-biology, he installs himself a digestive and excretory system. However, an incident with some people forces Andrew to seek ways to become a human. With Gerald’s daughter now grown up with a child, Andrew asks to become free.Īs a free robot, he begins wearing clothes. With the sales of his products, his master puts half of the profits he makes into an account. Soon, Andrew becomes a highly skilled woodcarver. Andrew creates a beautiful pendant that when Gerald’s daughter shows it to her father, he is taken aback by the sheer skill. Gerald’s daughter names the robot Andrew asks him to carve her a pendant from wood. The story goes 200 years back to tell the story of a robot with a serial number starting in ‘NDR,’ bought by a man called Gerald Martin. However, due to the First Law of Robotics, the robot refuses to operate for Andrew, causing him to disclose that he was a robot. The novelette begins with Andrew Martin requesting an operation from a robot surgeon. ‘The Bicentennial Man’ is a short story initially written by Isaac to honor the United States Bicentennial. With the robot having an offspring, Mike discovered that it chose to protect it instead of helping Mike, whose life was in danger.

Mike tells the story of a malfunctioning robot, Emma, whom he met while lost during a storm. The short story became a part of the 1964 novel ‘The Complete Robot.’ ‘First Law’ is three pages long and talks about the story of an incident on Titan as narrated from Mike Donovan’s perspective. ‘First Law’ is a short story created by Isaac Asimov and published in October 1956. With the sequel to the first novel complete, he wrote more stories that eventually formed the Foundation Trilogy. After the first story, Isaac began to write a sequel. After creating and selling about five stories, he wrote the first ‘Foundation’ story.

Isaac Asimov first got into the writing space by selling his short stories.

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