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andrewrawr 's review for:
I, Robot
by Isaac Asimov
I, Robot is composed of eight short stories, with moments of framing narrative between them. The first and the second to last focus a lot on the personal and emotional aspect of human-robot interactions, while the remainder dominantly explore different conundrums that can be encountered with the laws of robotics. I found every story very interesting. Asimov's prose is that of old-school science fiction writers, as well, with both the things I like about that (it's very smooth and easy to read) and the things I tend not to (infodumps where characters explain things to other characters who already know said things, silly or impersonal dialogue sometimes). Overall, I quite liked it overall.
One downside I found, though, was that despite setting up a brilliant, industrious heroine, there are scattered, surprising moments of sexism from Asimov when referring to other women. In his worldview, it was mostly men who worked, and men were the more logical and grounded gender. It only comes up a few times, and in general the actual characters don't even reflect the worldview. It is something worthy of note, however.
One downside I found, though, was that despite setting up a brilliant, industrious heroine, there are scattered, surprising moments of sexism from Asimov when referring to other women. In his worldview, it was mostly men who worked, and men were the more logical and grounded gender. It only comes up a few times, and in general the actual characters don't even reflect the worldview. It is something worthy of note, however.