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Foundation’s showrunner explains why big book adaptations start so dang slow (www.theverge.com)
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[–] captainlezbian 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’m still baffled as to why of all of Asimov’s books these were the ones made into a show. The robot novels would’ve been much easier to adapt

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've read foundation and end of eternity, loved both, but never read one of robot books! I don't know why ... maybe I don't know where to start or something, and so it just slipped out my reading.

[–] captainlezbian 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I highly recommend them. They’re set in the same world as foundation but are crime novels focusing around a detective from earth and dealing with an increasing cultural differences between planets and issues of artificial intelligence and robots that pass for human. One of the things I love is how Earth is in many ways the most foreign planet to the reader.

Start with The Caves of Steel, then The Naked Sun, followed by The Robots of Dawn, and finally Robots and Empire which ties the setting into Foundation

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks!!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I found a few orders to read the books in on Reddit and chose to go with the chronological order. I’m currently on foundation and so far its worked pretty well. There were a few other orders that had their own benefits so might be worth a duck duck go. But here is the chronological order:

  1. I, Robot [ROBOTS]
  2. The Caves of Steel [ROBOTS]
  3. The Naked Sun [ROBOTS]
  4. Mirror Image (short story) [ROBOTS]
  5. The Robots of Dawn [ROBOTS]
  6. Robots and Empire [ROBOTS]
  7. The Stars, Like Dust-- [EMPIRE]
  8. The Currents of Space [EMPIRE]
  9. Pebble in the Sky [EMPIRE]
  10. Foundation [FOUNDATION]
  11. Foundation and Empire [FOUNDATION
  12. Second Foundation [FOUNDATION]
  13. Foundation's Edge [FOUNDATION]
  14. Foundation and Earth [FOUNDATION]
  15. Prelude to Foundation [FOUNDATION]
  16. Forward the Foundation [FOUNDATION]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, the I robot movie has nothing to do with the I robot book. Similar ideas but different stories, etc… I was super surprised when I read I, Robot.

The Robot series by Asimov are a scifi detective novels centered around a humanoid robot named r. Daneel who works with a earthling detective.

[–] captainlezbian 3 points 1 year ago

I meant the R. Daneel novels. The whodunnit books about an earth detective dealing with robots.