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After watching Foundation I was curious about Asimov's Robot books.
The stories so far (I Robot and The Rest of the Robots) are quite simple and a bit crude, but they are also refreshing in their simplicity.
I see the stories as Asimov's take on the advances in robotics and computing he witnessed. It's funny in a way that the robot themes in science fiction haven't changed all that much since then.
@btrinen@Liesvanrompaey@bookstodon Asimov was specifically trying to critique the "evil/rebellious robot" trope that became the legacy of R.U.R. by presenting a paradigm of autonomous robotics in which such a scenario was impossible
@Liesvanrompaey@bookstodon I loved the way he designed the 3 laws of robotics and then challenged those in his stories, trying to find a way around them to get the robots to harm people.
No one ever called Otto Binder #BOTD (1911-1974) lazy.
Writer of the Adam Link, Robot series in the pulps which were a huge inspiration to #Asimov and others. Then drifted to comics with long runs at Fawcett and DC and short runs at most others. DC editor E. Nelson Bridwell assessed Binder’s total output at "almost 50,000 pages of comics".
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