Book-a-book of the Month Club discussion

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I did not realize this book is basically short stories.

Matthew wrote: "I did not realize this book is basically short stories."

Basically? O_o

You must admit that Asimov excels at the short story. I subscribed to his magazine for decades.

Kandice wrote: "Matthew wrote: "I did not realize this book is basically short stories."

Basically? O_o

You must admit that Asimov excels at the short story. I subscribed to his magazine for decades."

Well - I say basically because some of the characters carry over and the last two or three I read tie closely together despite being independent stories.

Matthew wrote: "I did not realize this book is basically short stories."

Me neither! I struggled with trying to rate this as a book, as I felt very differently about each story.

Just posted my review- I ended up rating each story individually.

I think my favorite part of this book is how it takes what seems like three simple rules of robotics and shows how complicated they can be in their interpretation.

It reminds me of how I have seen computer programming explained: computers will do exactly what you tell them to do. So, if you are not careful with how you explain/define things you may end up with unexpected results!