The Gods Themselves

The Gods Themselves 

by Isaac Asimov
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

"Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." -- Friedrich Schiller

Told in three parts, this novel features a society where scientific findings are controlled by politics and human vanity. Each of the narrators, a different one in each part, is well drawn as an individual and a full picture of what is happening develops as the narratives build on each other. Overall an excellent novel!

This book is on my Classics Club list. 

I, Robot

I, Robot 

by Isaac Asimov
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This is a collection of stories tied together with the conceit that they are a series of interviews of a famous robot psychologist at the end of her career being done by a journalist. Each story is a different episode in the woman's career and all feature robots. 

Like any collection of stories there were some I liked better than others. They were all well written and showed facets of humanity by analyzing what the machines do. 

This is one of my classics club titles. It was first published in 1950 and could count toward the Back to the Classics challenge as a 20th century classic.