Customer Reviews

Isaac Asimov's Robot City, Volumes 1 and 2

5 star:		(8)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(0)
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1 star:		(2)

 

 

Absolutely brilliant, in my humble opinion. I picked it up to read one night in bed, and apart from sleeping & eating, I didn't stop till the next evening. Through Asimov's helpful attitude & guidance, these authors have turned out an excellent read, which I thoroughly enjoyed. I'm potentially worried about diffferent authors doing a story along the same lines, while it allows for changes & invididualism, sometimes reading a series of books means you'll get the same 'writers attitude' whereas with this series you'll encounter a few different 'attitudes'... if this was anything to go by though, I have no concerns. :)

First of all you have to understand that Asimov had planned for this book to be written and set out guidelines for the authors to follow. Michael P. Kube-McDowell and Mike McQuay have done an excelent job of honoring the foundation/robot universe and their interpretations only improve the depth and color of the story. I think Asimov is smiling on this one.

I enjoyed this work more than many I've read lately. Good sci-fi without trying to push all the moral envelopes. This is the kind of fiction I've missed in my recent reading.

Sadly, I find that there are too many questions left open at the end of the book. I want the answers. Will I find them in upcoming novels and will it be in a timely fashion? I hope so.

I'd have given the book five stars if it had wrapped up more loose ends.

a classic asimovian detective sf novel except that the characters have an '80s sensibility. kube-dowell and mcquay are clearly having fun.

What can I say 4 of the best stories I have ever read I am a long time asomov fan and thought after his death nothing would be as good but I have been proved wrong these stories could have come right out of asimovs own pen GREAT FABBY FANTASTIC if you havn't read them then I sugest you do you won't be dissapointed...

Extremely lengthy, considering that it takes 250 pages to get to the "crime", and nothing of importance is revealed after reading 500+ pages. Too many major deviations from the spacer/settler universe, including appeal to deus ex machina type plot devices. Asimov would have hurled. Given all that, I will probably end up reading the next book, if only to finish answering the questions left hanging. If you haven't started reading Vol 1 yet, don't.

Many years ago, I read this series of books when they came out in paperback, while Asimov was still alive. I had forgotten how entertaining they were. All the classic elements, including continuity between different authors in the series exist. A must read for people who like a substantial, yet easy to read book. Definately not for those with a short attention span or someone who would rather see the movie then read the book.

you can't complain when you're set in the world of the three laws of robotics with a beautiful young woman and a man without a memory--first rate pastiche by the two authors in the book. I loved it!

nice job of extending Asimov's worl

I had hoped that people were done defecating on Asimov's grave when the last of Roger MacBride Allen's Caliban trilogy came out, but no such luck. Instead, this stupid "ibooks" imprint - having already desecrated Alfred Bester's memory - now bring this awful series back into print. Worse, they expect us to pay trade paperback prices for this dreck. Avoid like the plauge - buy REAL Asimov books instead.