Thread: Best All-Time Sci-fi Novel?
View Single Post
Old 08-22-2011, 09:42 PM   #100
EatingPie
Blueberry!
EatingPie puts his or her pants on both legs at a time.EatingPie puts his or her pants on both legs at a time.EatingPie puts his or her pants on both legs at a time.EatingPie puts his or her pants on both legs at a time.EatingPie puts his or her pants on both legs at a time.EatingPie puts his or her pants on both legs at a time.EatingPie puts his or her pants on both legs at a time.EatingPie puts his or her pants on both legs at a time.EatingPie puts his or her pants on both legs at a time.EatingPie puts his or her pants on both legs at a time.EatingPie puts his or her pants on both legs at a time.
 
EatingPie's Avatar
 
Posts: 888
Karma: 133343
Join Date: Mar 2007
Device: Sony PRS-500 (RIP); PRS-600 (Good Riddance); PRS-505; PRS-650; PRS-350
Quote:
Originally Posted by Barty View Post
Has anyone mentioned the Robots series by Asimov?
Good books, but please stop... STOP STOP STOP reading at The Naked Sun. Do not continue on to Robots of Dawn or Robots and Empire.

It becomes so terrible, so horrible, so stupidly awful at the end -- and I mean the very end where everything is explained in order to connect the Robots series to his Empire series -- that I was truly embarrassed.

Also, MILD SPOILER, Asimov's moral values changed in the intervening years, and his character changes accordingly. In the early books, he refuses the advances of a super hot chick because he is married; he makes a very strong moral case for his fidelity. In the later books, he gives in, and there is no remorse, or even suggestion that he did anything wrong.

Regardless of your moral feelings on the issue, the problem was that the character changed radically for no explicable reason, and it stuck out like a sore thumb. (Comparable to "Don't call me chicken!" in Back to the Future 2/3.)

-Pie
EatingPie is offline   Reply With Quote