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Escape!
Sign in to save"Escape!" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It was first published as "Paradoxical Escape" (a publisher's change in the title) in the August 1945 issue of Astounding Science Fiction and reprinted as "Escape!" (Asimov's choice of title) in the collections I, Robot (1950) and The Complete Robot (1982).
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- Author
- Tui T. Sutherland
- First published
- 2015
- Editions
- 10
- Subjects
- Juvenile Fantasy fiction, Juvenile fiction, Quests (Expeditions), Dragons, Prophecies, Imaginary wars and battles, Good and evil, Friendship
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Key facts
- Short story.series
- Robot series
- Short story.name
- Escape!
- Short story.author
- Isaac Asimov
- Short story.country
- United States
- Short story.language
- English
- Short story.genre
- Science fiction
- Short story.publication_type
- Periodical
- Short story.published_in
- Astounding Science Fiction
- Short story.publisher
- Street & Smith
- Short story.media_type
- Print (magazine, hardback and paperback)
- Short story.pub_date
- August 1945
- Short story.preceded_by
- Risk
- Short story.followed_by
- Evidence
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- literary work
- Author
- Isaac Asimov
- Genre
- science fiction
- Country of origin
- United States
- Series
- Robot series
- Followed by
- Evidence
- Follows
- Catch That Rabbit
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- publication date
- 1945-08-00
- title
- Escape!
- published in
- Analog Science Fiction and Fact
- language of work or name
- English language
- form of creative work
- short story
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"Escape!" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It was first published as "Paradoxical Escape" (a publisher's change in the title) in the August 1945 issue of Astounding Science Fiction and reprinted as "Escape!" (Asimov's choice of title) in the collections I, Robot (1950) and The Complete Robot (1982).
==Plot summary== Many research organizations are working to develop the hyperspatial drive. The company U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men, Inc., is approached by its biggest competitor that has plans for a working hyperspace engine that allows humans to survive the jump (a theme which would be further developed in future Asimov stories). But the staff of U.S. Robots is wary, because, in performing the calculations, their rival's (non-positronic) supercomputer has destroyed itself.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Escape!” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.