{4.5\/5} “Clearly, robots did not just think and learn. Nate had applied logic to circumstances to account, not only for facts in evidence, but for complex human emotions. Susan knew more than a few living, breathing people with a lesser grasp of empathy than Nate.”<\/p>\n
I, Robot: To Protect<\/strong> by Mickey Zucker Reichert, published in 2011<\/p>\n Susan Calvin graduated with a medical degree specializing in psychiatry. Now she’s working with kids at a hospital in New York. She finds out about the Three Laws of Robotics from her father, who works at the company that builds robots. She meets a robot named Nate, and finds him remarkably human-like. Then she gets a chance to work with researchers on something brand new — nanorobots.<\/p>\n This book takes place thousands of years before the other books in the Robot<\/strong> series, when robots are in their infancy. Susan Calvin is a character created by Isaac Asimov, and is featured in several of his short stories.<\/p>\n This novel has a different feel than the others in the series. It’s much closer to our own time, and there’s nothing about galactic politics since everyone’s on Earth.<\/p>\n It’s about successes and failures. It’s about people advancing science, and people who don’t want it to advance and are willing to use violence to make their voice heard.<\/p>\n This is the 1st book I’ve read by Reichert. I will read at least 2 more.<\/p>\n