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I tried this because of Murderbot and that it’s highly regarded. As I’m getting started I’m wondering when I give up on it. Was hard to get into and the current and past chapters were confusing.
I believe this is almost all on me and not the book. But, by the end I was enjoying it and wanted more . So well done.

2nd book in the series and I now have a grip on who’s who and not getting messed up from the tv shows. This had my head spinning with the leads, false leads and such. Quite liked this. Still having to remember to think like the mid 70’s time period it was written and set in.

Needed / wanted something fun to read on a long plane ride yesterday. Decided to reread this and was just as happy this time through as the first time. I’m sure others were wondering what I was chuckling about. I loved how the story arc that ended with the third coda ended.

Grabbed this from the library on a whim, having enjoyed the tv series. And here a bit of research would have helped with visualizing the characters. Colin Dexter’s books are what the tv show Inspector Morse came from. Spin off Lewis came later. I was envisioning characters from Lewis here and it didn’t add up.
Plus this story is set in the 1970’s when it was written. Should have looked harder before starting All that said I liked this book and how it played out. Definitely a recommend.

Starting in 1939 with the story "Robbie" and going through the 50's and beyond this volume is robots and more robots.
Most have the 40's-50's feel and sound. Takes a bit to get used to but that caused me many smiles. There was a group of stories featuring two robot testers Powell and Donovan. I pictured them as a mid century comedy duo. Good times. Next was 10 stories featuring Susan Calvin The Robot Psyco whatever for US Robots. And of course the only woman is a sea of men. So I pictured my Mother as her. Which doesn't help anyone reading this but now it's official. These were the real highlight stories for me, the favorite being Feminine Intuition. Anyway 5 Stars for sure.

Immensely enjoyed this book. want to think about this a bit before trying to write a coherent review.

Read book 3 first which I should not have done but what can I say. then read book 1 which was good and where I should have started. Book 2 here was really enjoyable. So many interesting characters and the author seemed to take some time letting the story roll out. sorry to see it end.

Not sure how many times I've read this over the years. Once a decade? And it still ends the same. Very 1950's writing but since I'm reading old Asimov and Clark SF it fits right in.

Should have read this before Paladin's Hope. But , oh well. I liked this book well enough.

Cold war , end of the world book written in the late 1950's. I think I picked up this book in 1967- 1969 and for some reason have hung on to it. So why not read it again while the world is once more in turmoil.

I read this just after finishing Nettle & Bone which i loved. This was a bit of a let down. That plus I think this is book three of a series is coloring my perceptions here. Saying that, I liked the world built here with both humans and gnoles. Dr Piper's occupation was nicely thought out. So yeah, mostly OK.

Thoroughly enjoyed this book. Had to force myself to put it down a few times so I could savor and not devour it.

It wasn’t enough that I’m reading Issac Asimov’s the Complete Robot. 500 plus pages of robot stories, which is quite good but needs to be put down every couple few stories. I came across this huge 100 story collection of Arther C Clarke. So now I can trade off. Plus we went to see Dune part two the other day. Just plain Wow. So I should probably reread that too.