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Publisher: Street & Smith
Published: March 1942
Number of pages: 256
Other titles: I, Robot
First sentence: It was one of Gregory Powell's favorite platitudes that nothing was to be gained from excitement, so when Mike Donovan came leaping down the stairs toward him, red hair matted with perspiration, Powell frowned.
Notes: Adapted into a movie called I, Robot. 
It is worth noting that in most of the stories, even the language that the humans use to refer to the robots anthropomorphizes them. By adapting the model number SPD-13 into the name Speedy, and by referring to the robot as “he” instead of “it,” the humans prove how easy they find it to endow the robots with human qualities.