| 1 | !![[Literature/IRobot The Asimov book]] |
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| 3 | * FairForItsDay: Asimov wrote his stories with Susan Calvin at a time when nearly all women were [[DamselInDistress captured by the villain]], or love interests. Still, he stuck mostly 50's gender roles in most of his stories. The short story "Liar!", which shows more of Calvin's personality, was rewritten a couple of times after Asimov realized his first version was terrible. In TheFifties, Calvin was hailed as a great SF example of a strong female character. In the eyes of the 21st century, she's misanthropic, can't get a man but is desperate for one ("Liar"), feels happiest when she can mother a "baby" robot ("Lenny"), and in general appears to be a (somewhat chauvinistic) man's idea of what a woman in a man's profession "must" be like: unfulfilled and mean. |
| 4 | * HilariousInHindsight: "Aw, Hell no." did appear in one of Asimov's robot stories. |
| 5 | * NightmareFuel: ''Escape!'' is a story that unites all the characters that appeared before (Susan Calvin, Lanning, Powell and Donovan), in which The Brain is given the problem of creating a hyperspatial drive. A solution is found, but long story short, [[spoiler:the crew of the ship has to die temporarily for it to perform the hyperspace jump]]. And that conclusion comes only after we are told what happens with someone who [[spoiler: dies temporarily (Donovan, in short, has visions of his own funeral and then goes briefly to Hell)]]. |
| 6 | * UnbuiltTrope: These stories invented the [[ThreeLawsCompliant Three Laws of Robotics]], yet also many of them demonstrate the flaws in those Laws, the conflicts between them, the effects of tweaking the laws to fit special circumstances, and how a perfectly rational being with three hard-coded directives may be able to violate the spirit of the Laws while following the letter of them. |
| 7 | %%* TheWoobie: |
| 8 | %%** Gloria in "Robbie". |
| 9 | %%** Susan Calvin in "Liar!" |
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