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Subject: Re: Re: Re: Robots of Dawn <spoiler!>  *
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Date: Thu, 15-Nov-84 11:55:00 EST
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But are you sure that the U.S. Robots stories (I think TBM was one of these)
are in the same future history as Elijah Bailey?  They don't seem at all 
consistent, largely for the reason you mentioned -- robots are _not_
commonplace in inhabited areas, while they became commonplace in the
USRobots world in the early 21st century.

The Three Laws are held in common, but in Bailey's world they are credited
to an ancient philosopher whose name is a mangling of Asimov, with
the implication that they were formulated long before they had any practical
application.  I am not sure, but I believe they were actually arrived at
by the roboticists preceding USRobots.

If anyone knows of any evidence in the Bailey books that they do coexist
with USR, please post references.  The mention of ancient Asimov is
in _The_Caves_of_Steel_, during the interview with the Earth roboticist.

(TBM stretched over 200 years, of course, starting in 2076.)

                                                     Mc