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Robot #0.1 : Asimov had 9 short stories published (in magazines) set in the same 'Robot' reality over a decade, before putting them all together in this ground breaking book. Key robot-psychologist Susan Calvin recounts some of the key robot (milestone) stories to the narrator, ranging from ominous m Leggi tutto

It occurs to me that if Isaac Asimov had written this book today it would have been called I, AI It also occurs to me that I might possibly not be the only person to have thought of that. Ah well - original review follows ... ***** Unredacted transcript of the meeting between Dr Susan Calvin, Head Psyc Leggi tutto

First LawA robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. Until I started reading this book, I did not know it is a series of short stories. I have always expected this to be a novel with one main story. There is some connection between the stories as th Leggi tutto

Isaac Asimov's books were far from the normal trash novels you might buy for a 2 day read. Within anything he has written, he tries to spell out lessons in psychology. How would we react to Robots once they become free thinkers? How should we react to Robots when they become our slaves? Should we insti Leggi tutto

"If one and a half chickens lay one and a half eggs in one and a half days, how many eggs will nine chickens lays in nine days?" This is incredible, the best of all science fiction I have read yet. As Fredrick Pohl put it: “A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobi