Scan barcode
spacecomics's review against another edition
4.0
Adam Link, Robot, based on stories written by Eando Binder (Earl and Otto Binder) a couple decades before this novelization, seems crudely written, typical of early pulp fiction, and I almost wanted to put it down during the first few chapters. I would have given it 2½ stars, but would have bumped it up to 4 because the authors deserve extra credit for being first to explore some concepts about robots -- human rights & citizenship for robots, robot emotions, robot romance, etc., though I'm not sure exactly which, since Asimov was writing almost contemporaneously. Having said all that, I actually got interested in the second half, which includes an alien invasion, and would have given it 3½ - 4 stars anyway!
More...