Robots and Empire

Asimov, Isaac. Robots and Empire. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1985. (Available in a [S. F.] Book Club Edition.) London: Granada, 1985.

The quasi-telepathic robot Giskard convinces the robot Daneel of the existence of a "Zeroeth Law" of robotics: "'There is a law that is greater than the First Law: "A Robot may not injure humanity or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm"'" (Doubleday edn. from S. F. Book Club 291; section 63). At the end of R&E, Giskard passes on to Daneel Giskard's power to sense and influence human attitudes and emotions—much in the manner of the Mule in the original Foundation and Empire—and leaves Daneel "with a Galaxy to care for" (381-83; section 92 [ch. 19]). See also in this section of the List IA's Caves of Steel and Naked Sun; see also, IA's The Robots of Dawn (the immediate predecessor to Robots and Empire) and Prelude to Foundation. Rev. Douglas Barbour, Foundation #35 (79-80); Robert A. Collins, FR, No. 83 (Sept. 1985): 16. (RDE, rev. 22/06/93)