Drew's review
I, Robot
by Isaac Asimov
Drew's review
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
Drew's review
rating:
recommended for: Curious People
Asimov, as usual, differentiates himself from most other science fiction authors by being more creative and less violent. Although there are relatively few explosions and no light sabers of any kind, the book kept me swiftly reading it until the end. This book is made up of several shorter stories, interrelated by common characters, history, and theme. Each story focuses on some aspect of robotics that humanity could potentially screw up, despite the fact that at the base attempting to keep us safe are Asimov's cardinal rules of robotics. A few of them involve essentially debugging the brains of robots, and I have to say as a programmer that some of those sequences are dead on accurate, inasmuch as debugging a modern pile of code can give me insight into debugging the positronic brain of a neurotic robot.
