The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories

The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories is a science fiction anthology written and edited by Isaac Asimov. Following the usual form for Asimov collections, it consists of eleven short stories and a poem surrounded by commentary describing how each came to be written.

The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories
First edition
AuthorIsaac Asimov
Cover artistPeter Rauch[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience fiction
PublisherDoubleday
Publication date
September 1976
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages211
ISBN0-385-12198-9
OCLC2202354
813/.5/4
LC ClassPZ3.A8316 Bi PS3551.S5
Preceded byBuy Jupiter and Other Stories 
Followed byThe Winds of Change and Other Stories 

Five of the stories are Robot stories, while one is a Multivac story.

Contents

The stories are as follows (original publication in parentheses):

Two of the stories, "Feminine Intuition" and "The Bicentennial Man", were inspired by Judy-Lynn del Rey. The latter was expanded into a novel, The Positronic Man (with Robert Silverberg), which formed the basis of the 1999 Touchstone Pictures and Columbia Pictures film Bicentennial Man.

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