Foundation's Friends

Author	Janet Asimov
ISBN	0441586341

It was just a dusty, old tin-can of a robot-- with no guarantee. But Jeff only needed it to teach him Martian Colony Swahili before he got expelled from the Space Academy.

Jeff Wells didn't really know what he had purchased.

He didn't realize that the robot had been constructed by a genius...

Author	David Brin
ISBN	0061056391

Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy is one of the highwater marks of science fiction.The monumental story of a Galactic Empire in decline and a secret society of scientists who seek to shorten the coming Dark Age with tools of Psychohistory, Foundation pioneered many themes of modern science fiction.Now,...

Author	Roger MacBride Allen
ISBN	0441002455

Intended Audience: Adult
Sexual content: Mild
Ace/Genderqueer characters: Yes (robots)
Rating: PG
Writing style: 2/5
Likable characters: 3/5
Plot/Concepts: 4/5

Despite terra-forming efforts by Spacers, Settlers, and robots of all kinds, the future of the...

Author

Isaac Asimov

From Wikipedia--

Lucky Starr and the Big Sun of Mercury is the fourth novel in the Lucky Starr series, six juvenile science fiction novels by Isaac Asimov that originally appeared under the pseudonym Paul French. The novel was first published by Doubleday & Company in March 1956. Since...

Author	Gregory Benford
ISBN	0061056383

Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy is one of the high-water marks of science fiction. It is the monumental story of a Galactic Empire in decline, and the secret society of scientists who seek to shorten the inevitable Dark Age with the science of psychohistory. Now, with the permission -- and blessing...

Author	Greg Bear
ISBN	1857237366

ENGLISH

It is always complicated when an author adapts or continues another's work. In this case, it is a complete success.

Greg Bear has been zealous to be e worthy of Asimov´s legacy. The effort that an author is likely to take to get into such a complex universe might be significant....

Author	William F. Wu
ISBN	0743479181

This third book of the Robot City series wasn't nearly as good as the first two. In fact, I was pretty disappointed with it. The writer just didn't seem to have it together. Maybe he's a new author. I don't know. The language was stilted and forced. Transitions were left out. It was just bad.

In this...

Author	Michael P. Kube-McDowell
ISBN	0743479246

3.5 estrellas

Me es complicado reseñar este libro, ya que ADORO la ficción, pero tengo un pequeño problema con algunos de sus géneros: Denme un libro con 10 razas de dragones y seré capaz de describir con gran detalle cada tipo, denme 2 tipos de robot y seré incapaz de distinguirlos.

Odisea...

Author	Frederik Pohl
ISBN	0586212752

Wan-To was the oldest and must powerful intelligence in the universe, a being who played with star systems as a child plays with marbles. Matter occupied so tiny a part of his vast awareness that humans were utterly beneath his notice.The colonists of Newmanhome first suffered the effects of Wan-To's...

Author	Mike McQuay
ISBN	0743479114

A man without memory, stranded in a city of robots gone wild. At his side, a woman who claims to know who he is, but who refuses to tell him. On a planet whose other inhabitants are entirely robotic, these unwilling allies are the only logical suspects in a case of murder. The young man calls himself Derec;...

Author	Mark W. Tiedemann
ISBN	0671039105

From a new and exciting talent, Mark W. Tiedemann, comes a fantastic new robot mystery set in the world of the late SF Grand Master and beloved author, Isaac Asimov. The First Law of Robotics states that a robot may not injure a human being, or through inaction, allow a human to come to harm.

At a...

Author	Rob Chilson
ISBN	0743487168

A man without memory, in a city of robots gone wild. At his side, a mysterious woman whose own identity he has reconstructed, and whose memories of him may be true or false. The young man calls himself Derec. In the shattering climax to his quest he discovers the shocking secret of his true identity. Tormented...

Author	Robert Silverberg
ISBN	0060817127

*****"Old Music and the Slave Woman" - Ursula K. LeGuin.
Yes, I checked this book out from the library because I saw that it had a LeGuin story I hadn't read before! And yes, this alone was worth the price of admission. (Well, since it was from the library there wasn't a price, but, you know...)
Set...

Author	Isaac Asimov
ISBN	0060556528

Gold is the final and crowning achievement of the fifty-year career of science fiction's transcendent genius, the world-famous author who defined the field of science fiction for its practitioners, its millions of readers, and the world at large.

The first section contains stories that...

Author	Gardner Dozois
ISBN	0312262752

Summation: 1999
The wedding album/ David Marusek
10¹⁶ to 1/ James Patrick Kelly
Winemaster/ Robert Reed
Galactic north/ Alastair Reynolds
Dapple: a Hwarhath historical romance/ Eleanor Arnason
People came from Earth/ Stephen Baxter
Green tea/ Richard Wadholm...