The Rest of the Robots [#books #review]

by Isaac Asimov

Robot Series
← I, Robot
The Caves of Steel →

Rating: 9/10

The Three Laws of Robotics

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

I love Asimov!!! He's just such a great storyteller! And, as always the thing I like most about him is that he talks about robots, spaceships and aliens, but in the end he's always talking about humans! :)

Eight stories, each one more beautiful than the other, in the true sense of the word, because the more I went on reading, the more I liked them! In fact, my favourites stories were undoubtedly the last ones, starring the robopsychologist Susan Calvin, a character that I liked very much in the previous anthology (I, robot). Once again Asimov "analyses" different aspects of robotics, in particular we almost always deal with the three famous laws.

This was the second time I read this book, but the first time in English. In this second reading I really appreciated the introductions written by Asimov himself to the three parts into which the book is divided. In the first, for example, he explains how he had the idea of ​​the three laws: in the previous stories about artificial men, like Frankenstein, robots always killed humans, but robots are just human artifacts, and we have many security measures for those, since ancient times (for example the handle in a knife or the railing in a staircase), so why not put a safety measure in a robot too? Brilliant as always!