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Subject: re: "Victory Unconditional" coming from "I Robot"
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Date: Thu, 18-Aug-83 12:25:47 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 18 12:25:47 1983
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From:  King Ables <ables@utexas-11>

I am forwarding this message from a friend of mine at work.  If
there are any replys, I will, of course, forward them back to 
the appropriate party.
-ka (ables@utexas-11, ...nbires!ut-ngp!ables)
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" There is a story "Victory Unconditional" (?) in I, ROBOT (first
collection of Asimov's robot stories), in which three Terran robots
descend to Jupiter's surface and, just by being themselves, thoroughly
cow the imperious Jovians.  It's a final solution to the problem of
the first story, rather than a follow-up of the solution."

  There is no such story in the book I,ROBOT by Asimov. Rather than
being a collection of short stories it is really a cohesive history about
the developement of robots from the simple non-speaking variety to 
the most human in appearance. This is not the first time this 
particular book has been misrepresented, even though it is such a classic
robot novel. I recall an article I read in Newsweek about
computer wiz-kids, it said the book was about a society where 
computers were so dominant that the people forgot simple math - 
not even close!
 Perhaps it is being confused with another book of similar
title, I am not familiar with the particular short story mentioned.

                                 Judy