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Title: Future tense.
Review: It may be a flight of fancy, but it seems that you can see Asimov as a scientist when you read his novels. Unlike other speculative writers, there is a clear sense of details that ring true to the present day. For instance, the trouble with getting robots to respond to a question reminds me of some of the more comical experiments with intelligent agents.Although the allegorical nature of the Solarians gives the book a somewhat dated feel, it still has that Asimov magic-- combining study of human nature with speculative fiction. A first class author, as always.
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