The Robots of Dawn (Robot Series #3)
by Isaac Asimov
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Read in April, 2006
SF. This is the third in the R. Daneel Olivaw series and Detective Elijah Baley has been sent off-planet to Aurora to investigate a roboticide. He's loaded on a spacer ship, deloused, and then sent to his quarters where he's to remain for the duration of the journey. Everything's so foreign and uncomfortable that Elijah can't help himself when he sees Daneel come through the door -- he hugs him.
These books are all still about the love between a man and his humaniform robot. Over the course o...more
These books are all still about the love between a man and his humaniform robot. Over the course o...more
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Read in April, 2008
This edition of the book in no way indicates that it's #3 in a 4 part series. Would've been nice to know.
Asimov's stories continue to strike me as excuses for him to explore a) his views of possible futures, and how robots/technology affect them, and b) logic puzzles. He does both of them VERY well, though.
My one nagging point is that all characters in his stories seem to be perfect logicians, who love nothing more than to diverge from an emotional conversation to argue the logical der...more
Asimov's stories continue to strike me as excuses for him to explore a) his views of possible futures, and how robots/technology affect them, and b) logic puzzles. He does both of them VERY well, though.
My one nagging point is that all characters in his stories seem to be perfect logicians, who love nothing more than to diverge from an emotional conversation to argue the logical der...more
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Read in May, 2007
80's Asimov is about ten times the writer 50's Asimov was. His ideas might not have seemed as fresh by then, but if you're reading them all in the 21st century, that hardly matters. If you've read Asimov's other classic series, the ending of this book will blow your mind. Or at least, it will if you read after sitting by yourself in the desert for four or five days, as I did.
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Read in January, 2005
this book..the robot begin to hve the humane's sensus and physical appearance..the positronic brain is advancing to the actual brain..really frekin' me out!..imagine,this world, we hve a kid or family as robot and he/she exist not from the mother's but from the factory...lots of controversia..rising up if this matter really happen..and 4 sure dis happen only in the book..:)
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Read in March, 1992
recommends it for:
Sci Fi fans
I think this book proved to me early on in my life that I wasn't as hardcore about Sci-Fi as I thought I was. I gave Asimov another chance and just wasn't drawn in. The only reason I finished it was I had to do an oral report in class. Blech.
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Third book in the series. To keep the series from getting stale, Asimov ups the stakes in this book. This time Bailey is involved in an interplanetary crisis that directly effects the future of Earth.
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This was the Robot novel that was written 30 years after the first, and the difference in style and content are striking. Asimov definitely grew as a writer in those 30 years.
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Read in November, 1997
The third book of the Robot series was written years after the first two, but the time off adds rather than subtracts. The Robots of Dawn was the best book of the series.
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Read in January, 2000
This book details exploits of Elijah Bailey and the robots of the planet Aurora. Its a detective novel within the Asimov universe, and its great. I recommend it.
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Part of a group of 1980s add-ons to the Foundation and Robot Series that are quite solid and worth reading.
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Read in January, 2005
Not too into the whole sexual thing... the entire plot was centered around it.
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Yet another in the endless series of Asimov's robot books. Yawn ...
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Read in January, 1996
anyone notice a trend in my reading habits in 1996?
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