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This is another of Asimov's robot short story collections, and many of the stories appear in earlier works. In fact, I would recommend getting I, Robot and this book, and avoiding The Rest of the Robots if you're not interested in owning a complete collection of books, but do want to have all of the stories. I say you should get a copy of I, Robot mainly because it has linking matter between the stories that this book lacks. The Complete Robot is as good as Asimov's other short story books I have read, which means I thought it was fantastic.

Asimov published two books named Nightfall 1 and Nightfall 2 which are collections of short stories. I have both of these books in a single volume named "Nightfall', which is not to be confused with the novel of the same name by Asimov and Silverberg. I was getting quite confused about which robot short stories I had already read already (many appear in more than one collection), so I built this table to help: Nightfall1969 The Complete Robot1982 Robot Dreams1986 Robot Visions1990 Nightfall         Green Patches         Hostess       Breeds There a Man       C-Chute         In a Good Cause         What If -         Sally     Flies         Nobody Here But -         It's Such a Beautiful Day         Strikebreaker       Insert Knob A in Hole B         The Up-to-date Sorcerer         Unto the Fourth Generation         What is this Thing Called Love?         The Machine That Won the War       My Son, the…

This is an Asimov short story collection about robots, where the stories are entirely contained in The Complete Robot, although in a different order. These stories are similar in vein to those in I, Robot, although it is odd that not all of the hyperspace development stories are present (perhaps some weren't written yet?). This is a good book, I liked it.