Isaac Asimov

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Realm of the Spacemen

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In the following review, the critic favorably assesses I, Robot. In I, Robot, it is the year 2058, with nationalism abolished and the world divided into Regions. Man is employing 'positronic' atom-driven brains and has conquered inter-stellar space. Human colonies inhabit the planets. Dr. Susan Calvin, retiring robot psychologist of U. S. Robots & Mechanical Men, Inc., tells a reporter for the Interplanetary Press of the evolution of robots from the 'human' interest angle.
SOURCE: "Realm of the Spacemen," in The New York Times Book Review, February 4, 1951, p. 16.

[In the following review, the critic favorably assesses I, Robot.]

[In I, Robot,] it is the year 2058, with nationalism abolished and the world divided into Regions. Man is employing "positronic" atom-driven brains and has conquered inter-stellar space. Human colonies inhabit the planets. Dr. Susan Calvin, retiring robot psychologist of U. S. Robots & Mechanical Men, Inc., tells a reporter for the Interplanetary Press of the evolution of robots from the "human" interest angle.

This is an exciting science thriller, chiefly about what occurs when delicately conditioned robots are driven off balance by mathematical violations, and about man's eternal limitations. It could be fun for those whose nerves are not already made raw by the potentialities of the atomic age.

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