Governors are the ultimate in robot evolution. Composed of six separate robots, each can single-handedly run an entire human city. Now they have mysteriously begun to fall. The last unit, Mc Governor, realizes its own destruction is approaching. To save itself down into its six components and launches them into the remote past. Only an experimental robot named Hunter and a hastily assembled team of human experts have a chance the past-and future. Their first target is in hiding in the age of dinosaurs. A robot willing to be branded a predator...
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William F. Wu is a five- time nominee for the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards.
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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Great for Teens, not for Adult readers or die-hard fans,
By Stettin Palver (Galactic Empire) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Isaac Asimov's Robots in Time: Book 1: Predator (Bk. 1) (Mass Market Paperback)
I aquired this book along with about 16 Isaac Asimov classics (Foundation series, Caves of Steel, etc). I plan on reading the Foundation/Robot series chronologically from the beginning. If you are a die-hard fan like me, you will find this book/series unbearable. The book is written for a young reader according to the author. This is seen through the repetition of every single 3 law conflict over and over throughout the novel. Every situation is explained in detail with reason why Robot X can or can't do because of Law X. For a new reader that isn't familiar with Asimov this book would probably be very informative. If you are interested in Time travel, buy The End of Eternity by Asimov. If you want to read up on the 3 Laws, buy "I Robot". If you want a combination of both for a younger reader, buy this book.
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
written on childish intellectual level, yet not even good as that,
This review is from: Isaac Asimov's Robots in Time: Predator (Bk. 1) (Paperback)
I read about half the book before calling it quits for good. I love the real Issaac Asimov stories, but this is not even a respectable imitator (if there are any at all).
First, we are expected to buy the idea of time travel into the past--a logical impossibility that has occasionally been gotten away with when there was great action or character development to compensate. Halfway through, I realized that this book would have neither of these. Instead, two of the main characters, an outdoorsman and paleantologist inexplicably bicker with each other about nothing at all, from the moment they meet. Wu's hidden agenda seems to be to advocate environmentalism, a religion the daily tabloids and ivory tower politician/pseudo-scientists are doing enough to disseminate on their own. This is not even good for children, as it is poorly written, is philosophically flawed, and is uselessly descriptive (e.g., the main female character is described as 'pretty'...so what?). Fortunately, I've yet to read over half of the REAL Asimov stories, so I have something to look forward to.
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