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I, Robot by Isaac Asimov A Review by Lindsey Cohen Lindsey Cohen Marta Boswell English 16 December 8, 2000 I, Robot by Isaac Asimov You wake up go to the bathroom and brush your teeth. You can already smell breakfast on the table while you wash your face and check out your complexion in the mirror. The sun is peaking through the blinds as you proceed down the hall noticing the plants are watered, the trash has been taken from the front hall outside, and the fresh newspaper is already on the table. The toys are picked up from the den, the tables are freshly polished and dusted, and the smell of pine sol is in the air. You are greeted by a cheerful robotic voice, “Good morning,” and you start your day off full of food, clean, and organized. I, Robot by Isaac Asimov, is a novel that is perfectly and directly related to science fiction and the future. The novel is about U.S Robots, a company designed to make robots for personal and scientific use. The book is divided into subsections, which are mini stories about the progress of making robots and the problems that U.S Robots convene along the way. All of the stories apply to one main concept, the three rules of robotics. The book revolves around these three rules: 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 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 (51). Every incident that the main characters come into contact with deals with the three rules of robotics, and the main characters have to figure out why the robots act the way that they do. The main character of I, Robot is Susan Calvin, a “Robopsychologist,” which is a person that deals directly with the minds and ideas of robots. She is the protagonist in the story and plays the science fiction female. Her physical characters do not make her the “Typical” science fiction character, but her intellect strongly provides her with unique abilities in a science fiction role. Calvin is not very pretty, plain, and unconfident in her roles with male characters.
Approximate Word count = 1592
Approximate Pages = 6.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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