ROBOTS AND EMPIRE Review

BOOK TITLE: ROBOTS AND EMPIRE

Author Name: Isaac Asimov

Genre: Science Fiction, Classic

Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76688.Robots_and_Empire

A few days ago I read this book. I read several of Asimov's books to get used to with his reading style by now. To be honest, not many of his books was something that I could finish in a week. And I really kind of judge a book based on how long I needed to finish it. But this book ROBOTS AND EMPIRE surprisingly took much less time than I thought it would. 

Long after his humiliating defeat at the hands of Earthman Elijah Baley, Keldon Amadiro embarked on a plan to destroy planet Earth. But even after his death, Baley's vision continued to guide his robot partner, R. Daneel Olivaw, who had the wisdom of a great man behind him and an indestructable will to win.

“The work of each individual contributes to a totality, and so becomes an undying part of the totality. That totality of human lives—past and present and to come—forms a tapestry that has been in existence now for many tens of thousands of years and has been growing more elaborate and, on the whole, more beautiful in all that time. Even the Spacers are an offshoot of the tapestry and they, too, add to the elaborateness and beauty of the pattern. An individual life is one thread in the tapestry and what is one thread compared to the whole? Daneel, keep your mind fixed firmly on the tapestry and do not let the trailing off of a single thread affect you.”

― Isaac Asimov, Robots and Empire

I won't say try reading it. But if you are much into hard scifi like me then it would be great. 

“I have made a discovery,' said Giskard, his voice carrying no shade of emotion. 'I have made it because, for the first time in my existence, I faced thousands of human beings. Had I done this two centuries ago, I would have made the discovery then. Had I never faced so many at once, then I would never have made the discovery at all.

'Consider, then, how many vital points I might easily grasp, but never have and never will, simply because the proper conditions for it will never come my way. I remain ignorant except where circumstance helps me, and I cannot count on circumstance.”

― Isaac Asimov, Robots and Empire