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A review by dolorsitamet
The Stars, Like Dust by Isaac Asimov
4.0
*4.3
I didn't like the beginning.
I know that this was written before the end of the Robot series, but I simply could not move on, could not accept this...new universe, which, although really the same as the old one, was so different due to the passage of so much time. Where had the robots gone? What happened to all that history, people, backstory...?
But the story did, slowly, grow on me. To some degree, the blustering naive protagonist grew on me...
And the reasoning/deduction at the end was quite very well done - although not quite as perfectly as in the early Robot series.
And the document...The description leading up to it sounded so overly sentimentally cheesy and cliche, and I couldn't help but think 'love' [not believing it, of course].
But what it turned out to be was pretty heartwarming in a possibly predictable yet fulfilling kind of way.
I didn't like the beginning.
I know that this was written before the end of the Robot series, but I simply could not move on, could not accept this...new universe, which, although really the same as the old one, was so different due to the passage of so much time. Where had the robots gone? What happened to all that history, people, backstory...?
But the story did, slowly, grow on me. To some degree, the blustering naive protagonist grew on me...
And the reasoning/deduction at the end was quite very well done - although not quite as perfectly as in the early Robot series.
And the document...The description leading up to it sounded so overly sentimentally cheesy and cliche, and I couldn't help but think 'love' [not believing it, of course].
But what it turned out to be was pretty heartwarming in a possibly predictable yet fulfilling kind of way.