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Summary: Ties in foundation, Elijah Baley, and Susan Calvin Books
Review: This book Brings together almost all of the Asimov novels. It hints to the formation of the Galatic Empire, and phycohistory. It also goes back to the Three law stories with Susan Calvin. GREAT BOOK. Unexpected ending.
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Summary: The future?
Review: This book has completely blown me away with its supremely intricate storytelling and its beautifully logical progression. Asimov was centuries ahead of his time having such accurate visions of the future, and a lot of the reasoning and philosophy surrounding A.I. which he seamlessly interweaves into this story will surely in time have real-world importance. This book is a masterpiece, and anyone who disagrees should mail me so that I can DISS their ignorance!P.S. I believe that even mind reading may one day be possible.
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Summary: Thought-provoking. A good read.
Review: This book is a worthy addition to the alternate history introduced in "The Caves of Steel" and "The Naked Sun." Asimov postulates that mankind has established successful interstellar colonies (the "Outer Worlds"), but that these colonies have turned hostile to the home world of Earth. Aurora, the most powerful of the Outer Worlds, has experienced a murder, of a sort, and seeks the services of Elijah Baley, a detective of Earth. The notion is plausible: Earth is overcrowded and used to dealing with police work, while crime is virtually unknown on the Outer Worlds. Baley's reputation is already known to Aurora by his accomplishments in the earlier novels. We quickly learn that the real issues deal with matters infinitely more profound than a single murder. The Outer Worlds are debating the future colonization of the galaxy, and the role, if any, of Earth. The novel does a good job of showing the importance of this issue, and tying the matter of the "murder" and Baley's success or failure, to it. The end is startling. The writing is a little more wordy than Asimov's earlier novels, and Asimov's age shows a little--as illustrated by two and three page descriptions of Outer World lavatories which are present in several portions of the novel, for what reason I cannot imagine. Nevertheless, setting these quirks aside (they are quirks) the novel is a good read for anyone interested in Asimov's Robot novels, and further, it ties the Robot novels to the Foundation series "future history." Hard not to like a book that can do all that!
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Summary: Great Book!
Review: This book is what made me understand the Foundation novels I read. If you haven't read it, you should. The story is great with the humaniform Daneel and telepathic Giskard.
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Summary: Did not finish due to frustrating beginning
Review: This book was gifted to me a while back and started reading it expectantly since Asimov has such a reputation. It was very slow going. The scientific way in which he rights (I suppose it is science fiction) is intrigueing but becomes very annoying when it stops the story from progressing. I got through about a third of it but when I got to the part where the main character was talking to the alien politicion accused of roboticide.
Now it has been a while and I am a little scetchy but let's see.
First of all The Alien spends about 10 pages not answering the guys questions. Then he answers them all in overload. The way in which Asimov bombards us with facts does nothing to clarify the situation. It's a bit like hearing a 1000 word essay on the uses of a pencil, yes you can probably get a plausable 1000 words but no I don't need to read it because it's boring and i'm not going to remember it all anyway. It got to the point where I was getting information (At this point I was getting info not story) which I had recieved 3 or so times in slightly different variations. I suspected that the rest of the book was going to be made up of lengthy dialogues between the main character and suspects.
I wanted to write a bad review about this book because it annoyed me. Perhaps I should try and be concise. We need logic in life but it is not fun and it is not entertaining. Pure logic, when it is not mixed with anything else is boring.
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Summary: Asimov done? Not quite yet...
Review: This is a great story on its own (though it wouldn't make much sense without the first three books), but where it really shines is in how it draws together so many loose ends. It is also amazing how Asimov set little events into place that don't end up playing out until Foundation and Earth--thousands of years and dozens of books later. Asimov is just warming up with the climax of the robot series!
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Summary: Asimov done? Not quite yet...
Review: This is a great story on its own (though it wouldn't make much sense without the first three books), but where it really shines is in how it draws together so many loose ends. It is also amazing how Asimov set little events into place that don't end up playing out until Foundation and Earth--thousands of years and dozens of books later. Asimov is just warming up with the climax of the robot series!
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Summary: Neat, isn't it?
Review: This is the last one of Robot books and quite well written. As always, the logic is quite perfect and works well. However as i read, i was more aware of Baley's various reactions and thoughts that the actual story. (because i don't think the solving crime stuff wasn't very good as books written before) I loved the style of writing and descriptions. Just as usual, Asimov wrote another great work! Don't miss this book if u liked the other Robot books!
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Summary: The beginning of all
Review: This is the third book in the Robot Series and starts the merge with the Empire and Foundation series. The first and second books are not necessary to understand the setting of this, but helps if you read these books. Here, the characters that will save and create the future of mankind,(starting in the fourth book, Robots and Empire) are defined and presented. These book are a touch of genius that will make all the series make better sense when read together.
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Summary: The third in the Robot Trilogy--read them all
Review: This is the third in the Robot Trilogy (actually, it merges with the Foundation Series in Robots and Empire, neat idea.) Elijah (Lije) Bailey has now experienced space travel once, on a mission to Solaria to solve a murder. He returns a changed man; having learned to extend beyond his limits as a steel-cave-dwelling troglodyte of Earth. And he has also met Gladia. The experience on Solaria leads to a trip to Aurora in this third volume, to solve a most unusual murder; that of a robot! Aurora is the most advanced of the Spacer worlds; kind of a Utopia. So a wanton act of destruction is unheard of and must be solved. Bailey is requested for this case by Dr. Fastolfe, who was the spacer who requested him in the Caves of Steel murder case. But in addition to the murder being of a most uncommon kind, the case is never quite what it appears to be on the surface. While this book has the weakest character development yet, it does have one exciting new addition; Giskard, the robot partner of Daneel, who shows up again for this novel to partner with Elijah. And Gladia, shunned on her home planet of Solaria because of scandal, has relocated to Aurora with the help of Dr. Fastolfe. Robots of Dawn is not quite as good as the first two robot novels, but well worth reading. I certainly was overjoyed to see it because I read the first two robot books as a teenager and had to wait years later for the third book to be written.
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