Robots and Empire

Paperback, 508 pages

English language

Published Jan. 1, 1986 by Grafton.

ISBN:
0586062009
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Robots and Empire is a science fiction novel by the American author Isaac Asimov, published by Doubleday Books in 1985. It is part of Asimov's Robot series, which consists of many short stories (collected in I, Robot, The Rest of the Robots, The Complete Robot, Robot Dreams, Robot Visions, and Gold) and five novels (including The Positronic Man, The Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun, and The Robots of Dawn). Robots and Empire is part of Asimov's consolidation of his three major series of science fiction stories and novels: his Robot series, his Galactic Empire series and his Foundation series. (Asimov also carried out this unification in his novel Foundation's Edge, and its sequel, thus unifying the three series of fiction into a single future history). In the novel, Asimov depicts the transition from his earlier Milky Way Galaxy, inhabited by both human beings and positronic robots, to his Galactic …

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Generally I find Asimov books are slow burns in the front half, and pick up and become hard to put down in the tail end.

This one was a hard slog all the way through. It was an obvious shoehorning of universes together, and ultimately not a fun read.

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