Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot : to obey
by Reichert, Mickey Zucker
Year/Format: 2013, Book, 400 pages
My Review: 2nd book about Susan Calvin
Fantastic and so much like Isaac Asimov’s work. This was a great read. As good as any of the 3 B’s [Brin, Benford and Bear] efforts to finish his series after his death. I thought that the author had a lot to offer the story, from the views of a woman and a doctor. She could understand Susan Calvin more than the other authors. I don’t know how she had the time to write this book. It was refreshing to go back to the beginning of the story.
An added plus she is a new author for me. I look forward to her next book and checking out her earlier works. Don’t read the jacket or the library summary if you don’t want a spoiler – I didn’t and it was a great read without knowing what was about to happen. As an Asimov fan I would look at one of these books without thinking.
Library Summary
It is 2036 and robotic technology has evolved into the realm of self-aware sentient mechanical entities. Even as humanity contents with the consequences of its most brilliant creation, there are those who have their own plans for the robots: enslavement or annihilation. Susan Calvin is about to enter her second year as a psych resident at the Manhattan Hasbro teaching hospital when she hears her father has been murdered. His death sets her on a trail of discovery which will lead her to question everything she thought she knew about her father and herself.
1st book – I, robot : to protect
Library Summary
2035: Susan Calvin is beginning her residency at a Manhattan teaching hospital, where a select group of patients is receiving the latest in diagnostic advancements: tiny nanobots, injected into the spinal fluid, that can unlock and map the human mind. Soon, Susan begins to notice an ominous chain of events surrounding the patients. When she tries to alert her superiors, she is ignored by those who want to keep the project far from any scrutiny for the sake of their own agenda. But what no one knows is that the very technology to which they have given life is now under the control of those who seek to spread only death…
Sci-Fi & Fantasy 