Isaac Asimov's Robot City

Isaac Asimov's Robot City. Series. New York: Ace, various dates. "ROBOT CITY is a trademark of Byron Preiss Visual Publications, Inc.," part of The Berkley Publishing Group (publisher of Ace Books).

We have examined Book 1: Odyssey (1987) by Michael P. Kube-McDowell and Book 6: Perihelion (1988) by William F. Wu. Asimov's introduction to the first volume ("My Robots") attributes to Byron Preiss "the notion of setting up a series of novels under the overall title of Robot City in which 'Asimovian' robots and ideas were to be freely used"—and to have Asimov's involvement to make sure the "robots stay 'Asimovian'" (xi). Asimov cooperated on the series up to at least vol. 6; see his introd., "Robots in Combination." Note Wu as an author with a bent for robot stories. Kube-McDowell's Odyssey Rev. Kenneth Felder, SF&FBR Annual (1988): 233; the third book in the series, Wu's Cyborg (1987), rev. Fred Runk, SF&FBR Annual (1988): 352-53.