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{{short description|1990 short story collection by Isaac Asimov}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}
{{Infobox book 
| name = Robot Visions
| author = [[Isaac Asimov]]
| image = File:RobotVisions.jpg
| caption = First edition
| cover_artist = [[Ralph McQuarrie]]
| country = United States 
| language = English
| series = [[Robot series (Asimov)|''Robot'' series]]
| genre = [[science fiction]]
| publisher = [[Roc Books|Roc]]
| pub_date = 1990
| media_type = print
| pages = 
| preceded_by = [[Robot Dreams (short story collection)|Robot Dreams]]
| followed_by = [[The Positronic Man]]
| isbn = 0-451-45000-0
}}

'''''Robot Visions''''' (1990) is a collection of [[science fiction]] short stories and factual essays by [[Isaac Asimov]]. Many of the stories are reprinted from other Asimov collections, particularly ''[[I, Robot]]'' and ''[[The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories]]''. It also includes the title story, "Robot Visions" (written specifically for this collection<ref>Asimov, Isaac: ''Robot Visions'', p. 17. Roc, 1990.</ref>), which combines Asimov's motifs of [[robots]] and of [[time travel]]. It is the companion book to ''[[Robot Dreams (short story collection)|Robot Dreams]]'' (1986).

==Contents==

===Introduction: The Robot Chronicles===
An 18-page introductory essay by [[Isaac Asimov|Asimov]], consisting of 17 pages of text and a one-page illustration by [[Ralph McQuarrie]] (these are the page counts of the hardcover edition).  This essay (minus the illustration) was later reprinted in Asimov's collection ''[[Gold (Asimov)|Gold]]''.

===Stories===

{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" border="1"
|-
! scope="col" | Title
! scope="col" | Year
! scope="col" | First appeared
|-
! scope="row" | "[[Robot Visions (short story)|Robot Visions]]"
| 1990
| First appeared in this collection
|-
! scope="row" | "[[Too Bad!]]"
| 1989
| First appeared in ''The Microverse''
|-
! scope="row" | "[[Robbie (short story)|Robbie]]"
| 1940
| First appeared in ''[[Super Science Stories]]'' under the title "Strange Playfellow”
|-
! scope="row" | "[[Reason (short story)|Reason]]"
| 1941
| First appeared in ''[[Astounding Science Fiction]]''
|-
! scope="row" | "[[Liar! (short story)|Liar!]]"
| 1941
| First appeared in ''Astounding Science Fiction''
|-
! scope="row" | "[[Runaround (story)|Runaround]]"
| 1942
| First appeared in ''Astounding Science Fiction''
|-
! scope="row" | "[[Evidence (short story)|Evidence]]"
| 1946
| First appeared in ''Astounding Science Fiction''
|-
! scope="row" | "[[Little Lost Robot]]"
| 1947
| First appeared in ''Astounding Science Fiction''
|-
! scope="row" | "[[The Evitable Conflict]]"
| 1950
| First appeared in ''Astounding Science Fiction''
|-
! scope="row" | "[[Feminine Intuition]]"
| 1969
| First appeared in ''[[The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction]]''
|-
! scope="row" | "[[The Bicentennial Man]]"
| 1976
| First appeared in ''Stellar'' #2
|-
! scope="row" | "[[Someday (short story)|Someday]]"
| 1956
| First appeared in ''[[Infinity Science Fiction]]''
|-
! scope="row" | "[[Think! (Asimov short story)|Think!]]"
| 1977
| First appeared in ''[[Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine]]''
|-
! scope="row" | "[[Segregationist (short story)|Segregationist]]"
| 1967
| First appeared in  ''Abbotempo 4''
|-
! scope="row" | "[[Mirror Image (short story)|Mirror Image]]"
| 1972
| First appeared in ''[[Analog Science Fiction and Fact|Analog: Science Fiction - Science Fact]]''
|-
! scope="row" | "[[Lenny (short story)|Lenny]]"
| 1958
| First appeared in ''Infinity Science Fiction''
|-
! scope="row" | "[[Galley Slave]]"
| 1957
| First appeared in ''Astounding Science Fiction''
|-
! scope="row" | "[[Christmas Without Rodney]]"
| 1988
| First appeared in ''Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine''
|}

===Essays===

{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" border="1"
|-
! scope="col" | Title
! scope="col" | Year
! scope="col" | First appeared
|-
! scope="row" | "Robots I Have Known"
| 1954
| First appeared in ''Computers and Automation'', October 1954
|-
! scope="row" | "The New Teachers"
| 1976
| First appeared in ''[[American Way (magazine)|American Way]]'' magazine
|-
! scope="row" | "Whatever You Wish"
| 1977
| First appeared in ''American Way'' magazine
|-
! scope="row" | "The Friends We Make"
| 1977
| First appeared in ''American Way'' magazine
|-
! scope="row" | "Our Intelligent Tools"
| 1977
| First appeared in ''American Way'' magazine
|-
! scope="row" | "The Machine and the Robot"
| 1978
|
|-
! scope="row" | "The Laws of Robotics"
| 1979
| First appeared in ''American Way'' magazine
|-
! scope="row" | "The New Profession"
| 1979
| First appeared in ''American Way'' magazine
|-
! scope="row" | "The Robot As Enemy?"
| 1979
| First appeared in ''American Way'' magazine
|-
! scope="row" | "Intelligences Together"
| 1979
| First appeared in ''American Way'' magazine
|-
! scope="row" | "My Robots"
| 1987
|
|-
! scope="row" | "The Laws of Humanics"
| 1987
|
|-
! scope="row" | "Cybernetic Organism"
| 1987
|
|-
! scope="row" | "The Sense of Humor"
| 1988
|
|-
! scope="row" | "Robots in Combination"
| 1988
|
|-
! scope="row" | "Future Fantastic"
| 1989
| First appeared in ''Special Reports'' magazine, Spring 1989
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{ISFDB title|id=517297|title=Robot Visions}}
*{{OL work|id=46337W|cname=''Robot Visions''}}

{{Robot series}}
{{Asimov story collections}}
{{Asimov essay collections}}

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