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Perhaps the most well-respected and largest series in science fiction, Isaac Asimov's (it is hard to imagine he has been dead for over 20 years by now!) Robot-Empire-Foundation Series encompasses dozens of books and tens of thousands of years of future history.

Due to the enormous timescales (for human standards), there are many characters to keep track of. Most of them are only part of the narrative for a limited amount of time so the site will not go into details of them.

The most important ones are Elijah Bailey, R. Daneel Olivaw, R. Giskard Reventlov (R stands for Robot), and Hari Seldon

Maybe one can consider "Three laws of Robotics" as a character on its own since it is so vital to the entire series. Most likely what Asimov is most famous for.

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 the orders given 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;

The Zeroth Law: A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.

This site is essentially a homeage to both the series itself and to Dr Asimov. Most certainly the author I have read the most of and that I have the utmost of respect for.

The choice was between him and J.R.R. Tolkien, even though they couldn't be more different in what they chose to write about on superficial level.

If you dig further in, they are similar in many ways. Partially by how complex their respective fictional universe is, but more importantly: their faith that humanity can and will prevail even when disasters try to tell us otherwise.

In the end, I chose Asimov over Tolkien here since I favor the scientific (or psuedo-scientific in some cases) of science fiction over the magical/divine aspects. But I digress.

I hope the site do the chosen subject justice!

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