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If you are expecting to read a story to follow the movie, this isn't it. While I get that movies don't follow the books to the letter, in this case, it only followed the name. Period. It uses the term "based from" loosely.
The story is told as a gentleman trying to do research on the progression and use of robots and speaks with Dr. Susan Calvin of U. S. Robots & Mechanical Men Corporation. She then tells a bunch of stories explaining the different situations with the different types of robots an ...more
The story is told as a gentleman trying to do research on the progression and use of robots and speaks with Dr. Susan Calvin of U. S. Robots & Mechanical Men Corporation. She then tells a bunch of stories explaining the different situations with the different types of robots an ...more
Overall, I liked this book. I didn't anticipate it being multiple short stories (which I have a history of struggling to read), so I may not have read it knowing that. After having read it though, I'm glad I did. I like the way it was set up with an overarching story keeping the stories connected while each story was it's own. It brought up a lot of big questions in relation to robots in our world and had little mysteries to solve in each one. If you like thinking things through or science ficti
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I liked it. I think it was very thought provoking without being preachy. They were good stories.
Jan 21, 2014
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