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Isacc Asimov's I, Robot: To Protect Kindle Edition

by Mickey Zucker Reichert (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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First in an all-new trilogy inspired by Isaac Asimov's legendary science fiction collection I, Robot.

2035: Susan Calvin is beginning her residency at a Manhattan teaching hospital, where a select group of patients is receiving the latest in diagnostic advancements: tiny nanobots, injected into the spinal fluid, that can unlock and map the human mind.

Soon, Susan begins to notice an ominous chain of events surrounding the patients. When she tries to alert her superiors, she is ignored by those who want to keep the project far from any scrutiny for the sake of their own agenda. But what no one knows is that the very technology to which they have given life is now under the control of those who seek to spread only death...

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  1. Book 1 of 3
    I, Robot
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    395 pages
  3. Language
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  5. Publisher
    Ace
  6. Publication date
    November 1, 2011
  7. Reading age
    18 years and up
  8. File size
    1110 KB
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About the Author

Mickey Zucker Reichert is a pediatrician, parent, animal lover, and author of twenty-some novels including Renshai, Nightfall, Barakhai, and Bifrost series, one illustrated novella, and fifty-plus short stories. She can be found at mickeyzuckerreichert.com.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0052RHC6G
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ace (November 1, 2011)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 1, 2011
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1110 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 395 pages
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4 out of 5 stars
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Customers find the storyline great, thoughtful, and well written. They also describe the reading experience as good and balanced. Readers also mention the book continues the Robot's of Asimov.

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Customers like the storyline of the book.

"...This book was, indeed, a page turner. I enjoyed the story very much...." Read more

"Really enjoyed the story. Fascinating the way they mixes human psychological challenges with robotic solutions...." Read more

"...So far the story is interesting, though I can't say that it's a book I cannot lay down...." Read more

"Interesting prequel. Mostly well researched with a few holes. I was not happy with the end." Read more

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Customers find the book a good read, balanced, and thoughtful.

"...The first 2/3 of the book is very good...." Read more

"...Balanced and thoughtful. Perhaps a bit more direct in social commentary but important nonetheless. The audble narrator was superb." Read more

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"Fun and easy read..." Read more

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Customers find the writing style well written and the audible narrator superb.

"Well written and easy to read. A great effort at showing a different side to Susan Calvin prior to her involvement with USR...." Read more

"...The audble narrator was superb." Read more

"Very well done. I’m surprised how well Asimov’s voice is duplicated. Appropriate story line. Just a good story, well told." Read more

"Well written. Continues the Robot's of Asimov. Need more." Read more

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Larry B
5.0 out of 5 stars A good beginning _ waiting for the next book
Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2011
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The original Asimov 'I Robot' stories were some of the first Sci Fi books I read some 40 plus years ago and the 3 Laws of Robotics have been with me ever since. This book was, indeed, a page turner. I enjoyed the story very much. Susan Calvin is not the character we expected but, that is the beauty of this first book of a trilogy. the story clearly lays the groundwork for building the Susan character we know in Asimov's stories. In dealing with several tragedies, her character is poised to change. I enjoyed the medical background from the hospital setting and I found rhe characters to be believable. The only part I did stumble over was the advanced state of the robot - N8-C or Nate. he seemed too advanced in his human appearance and manurisms to be an early model.

in any case, I can't wait for the second book. I hope it gets published very soon.
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Glenn
4.0 out of 5 stars Fun and easy read
Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2012
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Well written and easy to read. A great effort at showing a different side to Susan Calvin prior to her involvement with USR.
I look forward to reading the sequel.
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Zorac
3.0 out of 5 stars Another way to use Asimov's name
Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2019
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Difficult to review. The author is very good at using details to help readers picture this or that scene. The first 2/3 of the book is very good. But she was not very good at pacing a story I had to read through 90% of the text before learning what the real problem was. The book describes the early life of Susan Calvin. That and the use of a robot in the story are the only connections to Asimov. I almost gave it 4 stars but decided I could not. The hype and even the name led me to expect way too much.
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William E Inman
5.0 out of 5 stars True to the legacy.
Reviewed in the United States on November 21, 2021
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It is truly refreshing to read a work that so closely reflects the style of Isaac Asimov. Balanced and thoughtful. Perhaps a bit more direct in social commentary but important nonetheless. The audble narrator was superb.
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Joan AuBuchon
4.0 out of 5 stars Another winner for Isaac Asimov!!
Reviewed in the United States on November 9, 2013
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I have been a fan of Isaac Asimov since I was a kid (now 65) and have read almost all the 'robot' stories and have always wondered about Dr. Susan Calvin's past; now I'm finding out! Can't wait to read the next one in the series.
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Bentley R.
5.0 out of 5 stars Great story
Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2017
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Really enjoyed the story. Fascinating the way they mixes human psychological challenges with robotic solutions. A lot of foresight here that hopefully one day will become reality. Thx
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jake ross Emmons
4.0 out of 5 stars Good read
Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2020
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Good read
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Harrill Dean Heath
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Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2021
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Loved it
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5.0 out of 5 stars This and the other two are excellent
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 17, 2023
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They offer an insight into how and why Susan Calvin became the misanthrope she was. Actually I share her views about the great unwashed - case in point: my wastepaper bin wasn't emptied today because some moron put plastic bottles in there without my knowledge. How hard would it be, REALLY, to put them in the bottle bin? It confirms my opinion that the majority of people are idiots. And we're looking at the stars? Oh, please.
The books were good, though. And how typical of Dr. Calvin, to be asked to destroy a robot, only to...well, you'll have to read the third novel to see what she did. I for one fully expected it.
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Cindy
5.0 out of 5 stars Go ahead - leave politics behind and enjoy the escape.
Reviewed in Canada on February 14, 2017
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I wish I lived in Mickey's world. What an adventure. Solid introduction to this author's work. He will be a staple in my library both in hard copy and in audio versions.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Didn't age well
Reviewed in Canada on July 9, 2023
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I read this when it came out and remembered liking it, but upon reading it now I can say a lot of things didn't age well. Often judgmental, stereotypical, and in some cases distasteful. The writing itself is decent and I enjoyed a couple characters, but overall I wouldn't suggest it.
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S. A. Cryer
4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 27, 2014
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great series of books
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Tue Sorensen
3.0 out of 5 stars A rather mixed pleasure
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 26, 2014
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(*There might be some very small and undetailed spoilers in the below. I hope they will help anyone who has not read the book making up their minds about whether they want to read it.*)

I am a huge fan of Asimov's science fiction, so I became quite interested when I heard about this new "I, Robot" trilogy about Susan Calvin's youth. Having now finished book one, I'm somewhat ambivalent. The readability of the book and the clarity and progression of the plot are very Asimovian, if in many ways a bit lighter and airier. Overall, I would say it is a well-written book, effectively using scenes and emotional situations and keeping the reader interested and in places even excited. I understand it is this author's first foray into the sci-fi genre, and as such it is an admirable effort. The description of hospital procedures and medicinal practices of the year 2035 are convincing and impressive, being neither too superficial nor too verbose. Apparently the author is herself a physician, and she has obviously put both a good deal of both thought and experience into this book.

The good thing about the book is that it reads quite well as a stand-alone work. The story follows newly hatched resident doctors in their rotations, going to work, dealing with difficult patients (whose situations are described in some detail), and this is all written in an engaging and interesting way.

However, although its readability and level of engagement make up for a lot, there are still a list of shortcomings I feel compelled to mention:

First, if viewed as a robot novel, there isn't that much in the way of robotic content. There is one robot who is confined to an archival room, where Dr. Calvin sometimes comes to talk to it. This robot has almost no significance to the plot, however. What has somewhat greater influence is a project about nano-robots, which starts as a subplot, and then grows into something more. And although it is not really explained in any way, these nano-robots are also governed by the Three Laws of Robotics, which serves to save some lives, but, again, isn't properly explained by the end. This seems to be a bit of a logical quandary, as the nano-robots are being used for nefarious schemes by parties who should know about the Three Laws, but seem not to.

Second, and related to the first, the Susan Calvin we see in this book is not strictly compatible with the one from Asimov's stories. Asimov has her as a robo-psychologist, who is interested in robots from a young age (her teens). Here, she is a 26-year-old psychiatrist, who is only very gradually about to develop an interest in robots, partly through her father. Why is this alleged robot novel about an alleged robo-psychologist neither really about robots or a robo-psychologist? Why did they not decide that doing a story about the more traditional Susan Calvin was a better idea? What possessed the Asimov Estate to proclaim this canonical? The answer seems to be that this author simply wrote about what she knew best, and didn't worry about having it particularly fit in with the facts known from Asimov's stories, and then the Asimov Estate, for whatever reason, simply said, "Sure!" This is really not entirely satisfactory to an Asimov fan.

Third, I personally like my sci-fi to be pure sci-fi. There was an element I will go so far as to call a horror element in this book: a homicidally sadistic 4-year-old girl. Maybe it's just me, but I found this very disturbing, and it was close to stopping me from finishing the book. On the face of it, it may seem like an interesting idea, but it was extremely hard to swallow. Towards the end, it becomes still harder to suspend one's disbelief, as three adults who understand the situation cannot even hold this 4-year-old girl down enough to prevent tragedy (and it's not like she has super-powers, except for being highly intelligent). I will admit that the emotional impact of this plot element was powerful, but for me (who does not enjoy the horror genre) it was not very welcome. It contributed to my not really wanting to continue with the rest of this trilogy.

Fourth, it seems to me that this book did not entirely know its own type, genre and audience. It was sci-fi, but with elements of horror and romance. It was, in the main, a novel for a young adult audience, but I felt some content was too severe for such an audience. The climaxes of a sci-fi plot should be idea-driven; in this book every climax was character- and emotion-driven. And finally, there's the thing about not really having much to do with Asimov's original ideas about robots and Susan Calvin.

These things all combine to make the book a partial disappointment. The story has some merits and is mostly well-told, but it isn't really what Asimov fans hoped it would be. And I am still undecided as to whether I will read the rest of the trilogy. Maybe when I get them cheap and second-hand.
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