- Hardcover: 441 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins Canada / Fiction (Jun 11 1998)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0061052957
- ISBN-13: 978-0061052958
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16 x 4.1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 680 g
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From Publishers Weekly
In the manner of the ongoing series extending Asimov's Foundation novels (Gregory Benford's Foundation's Fear, etc.) comes this pastiche based on the late, great SF master's Three Laws of Robotics. Set in the early 21st century, the novel features five I-Bots, robots as psychologically complex as humans and therefore less bound than their brethren by the Three Laws. The robots find it unendurable to be used as professional assassins, however?and exceedingly difficult to escape the corporate power trippers who wish to use them that way. The robots here are well drawn, and the action scenes are as intense, vivid and bloody as readers have come to expect from Perry (The Digital Effect, etc.), here writing with Braunbeck (Things Left Behind). But the mayhem is not well integrated into a coherent story, and it creates a tone very unlike that laid down by Asimov's relentless rationality. The story also depends heavily for its emotional impact on the tension between the I-Bots' independence of mind and the Three Laws. Those laws were a seminal SF concept in their time, 50 years ago, but they have long since been overtaken in both SF and in real-world cybernetics, and are possibly not well known by many younger SF readers. This is a good example of a pastiche that exhibits much competence but that doesn't quite succeed as either homage to the original author or as an independent development of his themes.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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I-Bots was a fun book to read., April 7 2000
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Time Was: Isaac Asimov's I-Bots (Hardcover)
I-Bots was a fun book to read. It stayed within the boundaries of the Asimov universe. It was an exceptionally action oriented book which sets it apart from other books in the Asimov universe. I found it to be a quick and enjoyable read. I liked it so much, I read it in one night. The book has well developed characters. The plot was well thought out with many exciting twists and turns.
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why are there not more?, Jan 5 2009
By Natasha C. Hill "Universal Horror Film Buff" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Time Was: Isaac Asimov's I-Bots (Hardcover)
This book was good-I loved it-and the characters came so much to life but I'm a huge fan of Steve Perry anyway and there's not much he writes that isn't good. I first met him reading the Alien vs Predator series and enjoyed him immensely so have followed his Aliens books and Predator book. I'm also a HUGE Asimov fan and I felt like this book did him justice. A good combination and I'm stunned that there are not more books for these characters. All I could find was a few comic books. We need more of Psy-4 and Stoner. Highly recommend this book-loved it!
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