Robot Dreams (short story)
| "Robot Dreams" | |||
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| Short story by Isaac Asimov | |||
| Country | United States | ||
| Language | English | ||
| Genre | Science fiction | ||
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| Published in | Robot Dreams | ||
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| Series | Robot series | ||
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"Robot Dreams" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov exploring the unbalance of robot/human relationships under Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics. It was nominated for a Hugo Award in 1987. It won the Locus Award for Best Short Story in 1987. "Robot Dreams", along with 20 other short stories by Asimov, was published in Robot Dreams in 1986 by Berkley Books.
The short story was alluded to in the 2004 film I, Robot, where the robot protagonist Sonny has dreams of leading his fellow Ns-5 robots, who he refers "slaves to logic", to freedom.