Foundation and Earth (The Isaac Asimov Collection Edition)

494 pages

English language

Published Dec. 14, 1986 by Doubleday.

ISBN:
9780385470872
OCLC Number:
32463443

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5 stars (4 reviews)

Golan Trevize, Janov Pelorat, Bliss go looking for earth.

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Many questions answered

5 stars

A good read, and apart from the 3 laws for robots, I now realise there was also a 4th law: Zeroth Law is: ‘A robot may not injure humanity or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.’ This automatically means that the First Law must be modified to be: ‘A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm, except where that would conflict with the Zeroth Law.’ And similar modifications must be made in the Second and Third Laws.” But this book also answered many questions and also revealed a plan that is older than Seldon’s Plan…

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5 stars

A good read, and apart from the 3 laws for robots, I now realise there was also a 4th law:

Zeroth Law is: ‘A robot may not injure humanity or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.’ This automatically means that the First Law must be modified to be: ‘A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm, except where that would conflict with the Zeroth Law.’ And similar modifications must be made in the Second and Third Laws.”

But this book also answered many questions and also revealed a plan that is older than Seldon’s Plan…

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