July 7, 2011
“Speaking of Isaac Asimov, if you think of the Will Smith movie when you hear the title “I, Robot,” you owe it to yourself to read the classic original. Like many of Asimov’s stories—and much of the best of science-fiction—the futuristic setting is just a way of taking a contemporary issue and detaching it just enough . . . At the time (1950), racial inequity is not far from becoming a major issue and is addressed obliquely in the series of short stories that were initially published separately in sci-fi magazines before being compiled into one volume.”—Terry, Sage Bookstore, Shelton, WA
