Reviews for The bicentennial man, and other stories

The average rating for The bicentennial man, and other stories based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-10-24 00:00:00 Mark K Vaughn Eleven short stories and a poem around the theme of robots. A world class collection! With Asimov's inclusive vision of leading scientific women and people of colour; on top of that great foresight in regards to man's maltreatment of their environment - all this coupled with some superb short-storytelling. The absolute cream of the crop being The Bicentennial Man, which the collection was named after, as it looks at a robot seeking more out of life, in a really compelling tale. 8 out of 12 overall, although The Bicentennial Man short is a 10 out of 12, Five Star job :)

Review # 2 was written on 2015-02-11 00:00:00 Scott Houston Ah the temptation of reading more Asimov short stories is always a hard one to resist. This is another classic collection which for me I think sums up a lot of what made Asimov and his Robots so famous - the title story I think sums it all up. Asimov was determined to make the machines that think more than tools and less a monster and I think although we have a long way still to go he certainly has helped us along the way. But this book is not all about robots, there is spread of all sorts from mystery to pure science fiction. That I think adds to the appeal of Asimov you just do not know what the next story is about just you will get the same quality of story telling. And finally there is the Chris Foss cover - it was these books with his covers that really drew me in science fiction and even to this day I will read these books purely because of the covers - shallow I know but it gave my growing mind something to fixate on even if they had no relevance to the contents of the book.