Asimov’s early robot stories used to be annoyingly packaged in various incomplete anthologies, but I just discovered 2 volume Robot Dreams/Robot Visions (1986, 1990) which seem to be the most complete. Bought them for my reread. Latter has a bunch of essays on tech/robots too.
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Funny the extent to which his nonfiction essays are kinda weak versions of today’s arguments. Where he pops it is some unexpected insight arising from his fiction.
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Anyhow continuing my reread of Asimov. See previous thread on Lije Baley novels (which come after these robot stories)…
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Rereading the Asimov Lije Bailey books after a while. Catching interesting worldbuilding details I missed before. Like this idea that sets up the distant post-Foundation future of Solaria. They eugenicize sociability out of themselves.
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And Empire novels, which come after Bailey novels in in-universe chronology.
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Rereading Pebble in the Sky. Not a great book but it has a certain uniquely poignant feel to it, by virtue of being approximately the middle book of Asimoverse. The robot past and Foundation future are equally distant in time, and the story has a certain expansive solitude to it.
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I’m trying to do this reread in the order Asimov wrote rather than in-universe, but his (in-universe) early robot stories span his whole career and this anthology has 2 new stories written in the late 80s, that I haven’t read. So looking forward to those 🤓
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