Adam Link: Robot, Vol. 1

Dr. Link created a self-aware robot and named it/him Adam Link. After Dr. Link died, Adam had to face the world alone. And the world had to determine if Adam was monster or man. These are the memoirs of Adam Link- robot.

“I, Robot” (1939) – Adam Link, the robot creation of Dr. Link, was as human as environment could make him. The power of thought was his, but when he tried to take his place in the world of men . . . the amazing confession of a mechanical man.

Chapter I – My Creation
Chapter II – My Education
Chapter III – My Fate

The Trial of Adam Link, Robot (1939) – Adam Link, thinking robot, goes on trial for his life, and finds himself facing the hate of a world.
Chapter I – Monster or Man?
Chapter II – Fighting Fear
Chapter III – I Risk My Life
Chapter IV – On Trial for My Life

Adam Link In Business (1940) – Adam Link finds out that human hearts are not machines, and discovers for the first time the real meaning of human love.
Chapter I – Pardon … Or Death?
Chapter II – A Business Venture
Chapter III – New Developments
Chapter IV – Kay Makes a Confession

Adam Link’s Vengeance (1940) – “If you are lonely,” said Dr. Hillory, “why not make another robot patterned after the woman you love?” And Adam Link agreed.
Chapter I
Chapter II – “Educating” an Eve
Chapter III – Happiness at Last?
Chapter IV – A Horrible Slavery
Chapter V – Heartbreaking Combat
Chapter VI – “Vengeance Is Mine!”

The first two stories, I, Robot and The Trial of Adam Link were adapted as an episode of the 1960s television series The Outer Limits. It was later remade in the revived version of the series in the 1990s. Both episodes starred Leonard Nimoy.