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1) I, robot
Author
Series
Robot volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
The three laws of Robotics: 1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 2) A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. With these three, simple directives, Isaac Asimov changed our perception of robots forever...
Author
Series
Robot series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Fearing a violent confrontation between Earthmen and Spacers, Detective Baley and his new partner, a robot made in the image of the victim, investigate the murder of a Spacetown scientist.
3) Foundation
Author
Series
Foundation series volume 3
Language
English
Description
A band of psychologists, under the leadership of psychohistorian Hari Seldon, plants a colony to encourage art, science, and technology in the declining Galactic Empire and to preserve the accumulated knowledge of humankind
Author
Series
Robot series volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Detective Elijah Baley--from The Naked Sun and Caves of Steel--is sent to Aurora to solve the murder of a humaniform robot.
Author
Series
Foundation series volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Led by its founding father, the psychohistorian Hari Seldon, and utilizing science and technology, the Foundation survived the greed and barbarism of its neighboring warrior-planets. Now cleverness and courage may not be enough. For the Empire--the mightiest force in the Galaxy--is even more dangerous in its death throes. Even worse, a mysterious entity called the Mule has appeared with powers beyond anything humanly conceivable. Who--or what--is...
Author
Series
Foundation series volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"The Foundation lies in ruins--destroyed by a mutant mind bent on humanity's annihilation. But it's rumored that there's a Second Foundation hidden somewhere at the end of the Galaxy, established as insurance to preserve the knowledge of mankind. Now a desperate race has begun between the survivors of the First Foundation and an alien entity to find this last flicker of humanity's shining past--and future hope. Yet the key to it all might be a fourteen-year-old...
Author
Series
Foundation series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
When young Hari Seldon arrives on Trantor, he is unaware of the perilous politics that are brewing. After he presents his paper on psychohistory, he becomes the most wanted man in the Empire. A prequel to the original Foundation trilogy (Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation).
Author
Series
Foundation series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this stunning finale to one of the greatest science fiction adventures of all time, Asimov looks back to the development of one of science fiction's most popular creations: the science of Psychohistory, which predicts the actions of society.
Author
Series
Foundation series volume 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Continues the Foundation trilogy. Golan Trevise, former councilman of the First Foundation, is entrusted with formidable task -- to determine the future of Galactic development.
10) The Earth's Moon
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
c1988
Language
English
Description
Examines the many facets and puzzles of our Moon, including its phases and eclipses, its early discoveries and modern exploration, and its possible origins and future prospects
Author
Series
Foundation series volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
At last, the costly and bitter war between the two Foundations had come to an end. The scientists of the First Foundation had proved victorious; and now they retum to Hari Seldon''s long-established plan to build a new Empire that the Second Foundation is not destroyed after all-and that its still-defiant survivors are preparing their revenge. Now the two exiled citizens of the Foundation-a renegade Councilman and the doddering historian-set out in...
14) Our solar system
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
1988
Language
English
Description
Briefly describes the characteristics of the sun, planets, and stars of our solar system and some of the still unsolved mysteries of the universe
Author
Language
English
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Description
A fabulous adventure into the last frontier of man!
Attention! This is the last message you will receive until your mission is completed. You have sixty minutes once miniaturization is complete. You must be out of Benes’ body before then. If not, you will return to normal size and kill Benes regardless of the success of the surgery.
Four men and one woman reduced to a microscopic fraction of their original size, boarding...
Attention! This is the last message you will receive until your mission is completed. You have sixty minutes once miniaturization is complete. You must be out of Benes’ body before then. If not, you will return to normal size and kill Benes regardless of the success of the surgery.
Four men and one woman reduced to a microscopic fraction of their original size, boarding...
20) The sun
Author
Series
Publisher
G. Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
c1988
Language
English
Description
Discusses the origins, physical makeup, and relationship to earth of the huge star called the sun
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