~Isaac Asimov
Needed a dose of fiction and the book from Asimov's Robot series stood out as an immediate choice from among others at the book sale. One long trans-Atlantic flight later, I had read the sequel to the Robots of Dawn in Asimov's series. This is the kind of stuff that breezy friction reading should be about. Yes, I'm a fan of science fiction in general, and would pick this genre over others in a heart beat, but Asimov is especially skilled in making his stuff easy to read and entertaining at the same time.
And so it was that I spent a couple of hours reading about Daneel and Giskard, and their super-human (errr, super-robot) powers, etc. etc. Fantasy notwithstanding, it takes a certain imagination to make this kind of uber-futuristic view fairly imaginable for the reader. Good stuff.
Needed a dose of fiction and the book from Asimov's Robot series stood out as an immediate choice from among others at the book sale. One long trans-Atlantic flight later, I had read the sequel to the Robots of Dawn in Asimov's series. This is the kind of stuff that breezy friction reading should be about. Yes, I'm a fan of science fiction in general, and would pick this genre over others in a heart beat, but Asimov is especially skilled in making his stuff easy to read and entertaining at the same time.
And so it was that I spent a couple of hours reading about Daneel and Giskard, and their super-human (errr, super-robot) powers, etc. etc. Fantasy notwithstanding, it takes a certain imagination to make this kind of uber-futuristic view fairly imaginable for the reader. Good stuff.
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