Review of Isaac Asimov's Works
Introduction
I've long loved Isaac Asimov's works ever since I was a teenager. I read many of his works, mainly within the Foundation trilogy. So recently I got the idea in my head to read all of his works from start to finish, in a story-based chronological order proposed by his fans. I will list interesting tidbits here.
I, Robot
As is usual with Isaac Asimov, the story is amazing. It's noteworthy, though, that Asimov was writing books about robots before many of the technologies that were invented that make his futuristic vision possible. Still, his vision of robots at least initially was one of 1950s basic physical robots but with positronic brains. It's not until Caves of Steel that we see anthropomorphic robots.
Asimov is a genius for pitting humanity
against robots in all his robot series books.
Caves of Steel
Another great work by Isaac Asimov. Probably my favorite quote from him so far is found on page 235 as Bailey confronts one of the villains. I'm going to have to hold on to this quote as I run into lots of atheists and agnostics that try to make science out to be the end and whole sum of all of human existence:
"Not as long as things exist that science can't measure. What is beauty, or goodness, or art, or love, or God? We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood. It's what makes us men."
The Naked Sun
Before I begin, the title is more about the world in which Bailey, again the hero of this robot story, finds himself on.
In this book, however, around page 177, we
see the evolutionary fraud of Haekel's
Embryos. This is sort of sad to see, but also a
noteworthy reference nonetheless. You see, Asimov believed
in evolution. So much so, unfortunately, that he didn't
mentally fact check Haekel's Embryos but instead believed the
theory. Haekel was eventually revealed to be a fraud.