Final Post: Robot Dreams

I'm finished with Robot Dreams now. I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed it. Needless to say some of the stories were more interesting than others. On a few of the more boring stories such as Eyes Do More Than See, Asimov indulges himself in philosophy and abstract thought with the result being far from page turning. But they're are others such as Host that do an amazing job of turning out a plot of intrigue and suspense that makes it all worth while. My personal favorite story in the whole book is the title story, Robot Dreams. In this story we hear about a robot who has done the unthinkable, had a dream. He consults his psychiatrists about this strange occurrence and she becomes deeply concerned and tries to reconcile how a nonliving machine could possibly dream. Does this then mean that he could feel and love and hate and everything else? It raises all sorts of problems that require the reading to do some deep thinking.

So in closing I would most definitely recommend this book to anyone. You don't even have to be a sci-fi fan to enjoy these stories, you simply have to have an appreciation for good story telling.

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