Rest of the Robots - Isaac Asimov

A collection of Asimov stories with narrator previews is why I picked up this book. Asimov hand picks a very wide variety of stories from different publications to put together in this book.



The short stories in this book are all quick reads and related to the iRobot series of novels. The only common thread is that they all involve the US Robotics organization and enforce the 3 laws of robotics but the commonality stops there. The stories are fun quick reads and delve into a subjects such as interplanetary exploration, human psyche vs robot psyche and even robotics Law.

This a fun quick read with several short stories that don't fail to deliver a different perspective on the Dystopian future presented by Asimov.

The Forgotten Man - Amity Shales

The Great depression. Always been an interesting subject and the title of this book was very appealing to me. The whole idea of connecting Wall Street to Main Street and clearing the blurred lines between Macro and Micro is why I picked up this book as a read.


This book delivers what it says but not unfortunately not what I thought it would. This isn't a rosy narrative or a thorny narrative or any narrative at all. There's a basic outline that chronological but the characters are factual and the timeline stringent. I found it very hard to keep up with the story as the characters don't connect and the author drops of historical characters every other paragraph and just expects you to know who the person was in the 1920s.

There is an attempt to try and make this a simpler read but I warn anyone against the giant attention span and time to read this. You would need to be able to keep a notepad aside and spend large chunks of time trying to get through this and undoubtedly come out an expert on the other side but you'll be doin a lot of the analysis yourself, similar to reading a History book.