艾萨克·阿西莫夫（1920-1992），俄裔美籍作家，被全世界的读者誉为“神一样的人”；美国政府授予他“国家的资源与自然的奇迹”这个独一无二的称号，以表彰他在“拓展人类想象力”上做出的杰出贡献。

阿西莫夫是一个全知全能的作家，其作品涉及众多领域。从通俗小说到罗马帝国史，从科普读物到圣经、科学指南，每一部著作都朴实，严谨又不失幽默风趣。

阿西莫夫也是一位有预见性的作家，他预言了今天的生物科技，人工智能，互联网时代的数字图书馆，乃至人类将进行太空殖民的事实。终其一生，他认为自己最大的贡献是：发明了一套机器人伦理法则——“机器人学三大法则”。这套法则开创了现代机器人科幻小说这一文学类型，也成为了当代机器人学的基本法则。阿西莫夫作品中的“智能计算机”对后世的科幻作家乃至科学家都产生了深远的影响，因而他被尊称为“机器人科幻小说之父”。

阿西莫夫的代表作是：机器人科幻小说和《银河帝国》系列作品。

THE COMPLETE ROBOT is the definitive anthology of Asimov's stunning visions of a robotic future... In these stories, Isaac Asimov creates the Three Laws of Robotics and ushers in the Robot Age: when Earth is ruled by master-machines and when robots are more human than mankind. As well as TN-3 (Tony), AL-76 and other robots, the stories feature the staff of U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men Inc., and in particular the chief robot-psychologist, the steely Dr Susan Calvin who is in many ways more robot-like than her subjects. THE COMPLETE ROBOT is the ultimate collection of timeless, amazing and amusing robot stories from the greatest science fiction writer of all time, offering golden insights into robot thought processes. Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics were programmed into real computers thirty years ago at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - with surprising results. Readers of today still have many surprises in store... 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 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