This book is actually the best one of the two robot city series (Robot City and Robots and Aliens). Unfortunately I had to wade through 12 not very good books to find it, and its still not stellar. I’d recommend giving both these series a miss unless you’re obsessed with completeness in Asimov’s Robot universe….
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Caliban Series
These are books written in Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Universe by Roger MacBride Allen. These books are actually better than the Robot City Series, in that they at least explore issues that Asimov himself touched upon. 1997: Caliban 1998: Inferno 1999: Utopia
The Robot City Series
These are books written in Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Universe by other authors. They don’t progress the overall plot of the Foundation series, they just use some of the concepts and characters to tell similar stories. The books in the series are: 1987: Isaac Asimov’s Robot City: Odyssey by Michael P Kube-McDowell 1987: Isaac Asimov’s Robot…
Isaac Asimov’s Robot City: Robots and Aliens: Maverick
Bruce did an ok job with this book, although I think overall he was suffering from not having a lot to work with. The book is quite readable, which isn’t true of some of the others, and has some nice details such as an attempt to sound technically feasible by the liberal sprinkling of unix…
Isaac Asimov’s Robot City: Robots and Aliens: Alliance
Given how disappointed I have been in other books in this series, I was pleasantly surprised by this one. The style is very readable, and the content is interesting. The plot seems more nuanced than some of the others in the series, and the characters aren’t as one dimensional either. This isn’t the best book…
Isaac Asimov’s Robot City: Robots and Aliens: Intruder
This is the third book in the second Asimov tie in series. Its one of the better ones of the nine I have read so far, and I actually enjoyed reading it (some of the others felt like a bit of a chore). This one covers a return to Robot City, where an outside force…
Nightfall (short stories)
There are four Asimov books called Nightfall. There is a two volume collection of short stories (Nightfall One and Nightfall Two), a single volume version of this collection, and a novel length version of the short story “Nightfall”, which headlines the short story collections. I’ve previously attempted to explain the list of short stories in…
Isaac Asimov’s Robot Short Stories
I was getting quite confused about which robot short stories I had already read (many appear in more than one collection), so I built this table to help. Note that ecrosses indicate stories which aren’t about robots, and are really stow aways. I, Robot 1950 The Rest of the Robots 1964 The Complete Robot 1982…
Isaac Asimov’s Robot City: Robots and Aliens: Renegade
This book starts poorly, and isn’t as interesting as the previous one in the series (Isaac Asimov’s Robot City: Robots and Aliens: Changeling). The introduction uses an alien species with spending any time to describe them, and the process of trying to infer what they are and how they operate distracts from the overall plot….
Isaac Asimov’s Robot City: Robots and Aliens: Changeling
Despite the rather unwieldy name, and being trapped as the seventh book in a share cropping series using Asimov’s name, this is actually quite a good book. The plot explores something Asimov didn’t do much of (what happens when Asimovian robots meet aliens and define them as human), while not being self righteous about it….