Speaking of robots, Tim Major’s short-story collection Great Robots Of History (Black Shuck Books, £11.99) is a wonderful, wryly intelligent survey of automata, androids and humanoid machines ...

Abigail is created to replace her owner's dead wife, just as robots are set to gain rights. Emily H. Wilson explores Lucy ...

From what he originally called the fix-up sci-fi collection to the words he invented in its stories, here’s what you need to know about Asimov’s ‘I, Robot,’ which turns 75 this year.