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The Norby Chronicles (Norby, No 1 and No 2)
The Norby Chronicles - Norby, No 1 and No 2
Author: Isaac Asimov, Janet Asimov
Omnibus edition, contains "Norby, the Mixed-Up Robot" and "Norby's Other Secret". — "Norby, the Mixed-Up Robot" - Jeff Wells, a Space Academy student, and Norby, a second-hand teaching robot with unusual abilities, find themselves involved in the sinister plans of Ing the Ingrate, who intends to take over the universe. — "Norby's Other Secret" - W...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780441586332
ISBN-10: 0441586333
Publication Date: 4/1986
Pages: 192
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4 stars, based on 11 ratings
Publisher: Ace Books
Book Type: Paperback
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Norby is the cutest robot ever created, and this is the fine debut of Janet and Isaac Asimov as a writing team. Juvenile fiction that is smart, funny, and literate is in short supply, and this is one of the best ones ever.
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reviewed The Norby Chronicles (Norby, No 1 and No 2) on + 1568 more book reviews
Janet and Isaac Asimov's light takeoff on the 3 Laws of Robotics. Space opera with a proto-type robot similar to R2D2 as the main character. . .
The robot's frame is built into a keg of 'Norb's Nails', so his name is Norby
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It was just a old tin-can robot-with no guarantee. But Jeff only needed to teach it Martian Colony Swahili. What he did not realize what the robot had been constructed by a genius 50 years ago-from old parts of a damaged alien spacecraft! Jeff didn't know what he was getting himself into....


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