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Bezig met laden... Isaac Asimov's Inferno (Caliban Trilogy) (origineel 1994; editie 1998)door Roger MacBride Allen (Auteur)
Informatie over het werkIsaac Asimov's Caliban II: Inferno door Roger MacBride Allen (1994)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. While I found Caliban decent, this is where the story gets even better: the mystery and the writing in general seem to have been kicked up a notch for the second volume of the trilogy. Alvar Kresh isn't a particularly complex lead character, but he's as effective likeable a protagonist as his dramatic opposite, Elijah Baley, was. Just as Baley went up against a world with robots, Kresh must discover a world without one, and the result is an excellent exploration of the universe of Asimov's robots that uses the Three Laws (and the New Laws) quite well. Oh, and R. Donald is just the coolest. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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In a Universe protected by the Three Laws of Robotics, humans are safe. The Second Law states, a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. When a key politician is murdered, suspicion falls on Caliban... the only robot without guilt or conscience, with no need to obey or to respect humanity... a robot without the Three Laws. But the stakes go deeper than one man's life. Caliban is challenging long-held ideas of a robot's place in society. Will he lead his New Law robots in a rebellion that threatens all humanity? The sequel to the bestselling Caliban is a searing examination of Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics, a challenge welcomed and sanctioned by Isaac Asimov, the beloved late genius of science fiction, and written with his cooperation by one of today's hottest talents, Roger MacBride Allen, author of The Modular Man, The Ring of Charon, and Caliban. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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Overall this was a good read, and probably a better book than Inferno. I certainly found it easier to read and more enjoyable. I read the majority of the book on a single set of flights between the US and Australia because it was such a good read.
Its interesting that the Amazon reviews for this book are mostly negative, and I can see the point they're trying to make. There are certainly opportunities for Prospero's psychology and the overall political situation created by the massive disruption of the society to be explored more. Additionally, the murder mystery is resolved very rapidly at the end of the book after crawling progress during the majority of the book. Then again, that's just like Caves of Steel and Naked Sun, which both are resolved rapidly at the end of the book and gloss over issues which aren't core to the story. I guess you can chose to tell a story many different ways, and just because Allen didn't chose to tell it the way that the Amazon reviewers thought he should doesn't make his choice incorrect.
http://www.stillhq.com/book/Roger_MacBride_Allen/Inferno.html ( )