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Starting in 1939 with the story "Robbie" and going through the 50's and beyond this volume is robots and more robots.
Most have the 40's-50's feel and sound. Takes a bit to get used to but that caused me many smiles. There was a group of stories featuring two robot testers Powell and Donovan. I pictured them as a mid century comedy duo. Good times. Next was 10 stories featuring Susan Calvin The Robot Psyco whatever for US Robots. And of course the only woman is a sea of men. So I pictured my Mother as her. Which doesn't help anyone reading this but now it's official. These were the real highlight stories for me, the favorite being Feminine Intuition. Anyway 5 Stars for sure.

Immensely enjoyed this book. want to think about this a bit before trying to write a coherent review.

Read book 3 first which I should not have done but what can I say. then read book 1 which was good and where I should have started. Book 2 here was really enjoyable. So many interesting characters and the author seemed to take some time letting the story roll out. sorry to see it end.

Not sure how many times I've read this over the years. Once a decade? And it still ends the same. Very 1950's writing but since I'm reading old Asimov and Clark SF it fits right in.

Should have read this before Paladin's Hope. But , oh well. I liked this book well enough.

Cold war , end of the world book written in the late 1950's. I think I picked up this book in 1967- 1969 and for some reason have hung on to it. So why not read it again while the world is once more in turmoil.

I read this just after finishing Nettle & Bone which i loved. This was a bit of a let down. That plus I think this is book three of a series is coloring my perceptions here. Saying that, I liked the world built here with both humans and gnoles. Dr Piper's occupation was nicely thought out. So yeah, mostly OK.

Thoroughly enjoyed this book. Had to force myself to put it down a few times so I could savor and not devour it.

It wasn’t enough that I’m reading Issac Asimov’s the Complete Robot. 500 plus pages of robot stories, which is quite good but needs to be put down every couple few stories. I came across this huge 100 story collection of Arther C Clarke. So now I can trade off. Plus we went to see Dune part two the other day. Just plain Wow. So I should probably reread that too.

This might be the best of his books so far. (I’m reading them in order). Lots up with Chee and Janet, Chee and Leaphorn and Leaphorn and the professor. Interesting history and conflict. And one act by Chee that is perfectly him.

Not my most favorite one of his books. Helped when I remembered this was written back in the Cold War.

Very enjoyable book combining racing and an accountant. Trouble ensues. I say typical in the title above not as a put down. This is a good, well thought out and nicely described to put me in the story. I liked it. Only wish it didn't go by so fast.

Excellent story telling with this book. You could almost see this as a group of scenes on being on a WWII German U-Boat. It's not just battle after battle, really conveys the details on what a u-boat was and how it's kept up. Lots of crew scenes too not just the officers.
One tiny bit was the difficulty of maintaining your focus on a 8 hour shift being a lookout on the bridge. Even down to how heavy the binoculars felt after a couple of hours. Well with my time reading and was hard to put down.

I just read the forward written by Issac Asimov. Talked about where he came from and what he had done. Which was much more than writing SF. I may have known some of this years ago but holy crap what he accomplished is wild.

I'm 100 pages or so in now and this is a seriously sobering book on what it was to be in a u-boat.