Fantasy author to pen new Robot stories!

Oh dear. Another dead sf writer gets dug up. What's wrong with publishing new stuff instead of strip-mining the past for culture? It's not as if the Robot stories were all that good.
 
Its the age of the remake original ideas have run out that now they even have to use old famous books to sell.....

You cant get bigger than Asimov name wise in golden age sf so its stupid but its also naturally for them.
 
AE35Unit Indeed :)

To be fair, look what they did to Dune, and that was good.
 
Sounds good! It could be interesting to follow a new-version Susan Calvin's route through her robotic career and robotic relationships.

Wonder if this author will also do a version of the wonderful Robot Novels with Lije, Daneel, Giskard and Co. As long as she did a decent Daneel and Giskard and didn't turn them into victimized dorks.

From what I read of the linked Guardian article it mentioned a 'witty and innovative take on the Three Laws'...! Yee hey. Let's hope.
 
Nah, Asimov wrote plenty whilst on his mortal coil. Lets leave it at that and not insult him with some other ?#@*. If this writer's any good, he can use his imagination, come up with his own characters and write his own book.

*woody steps down off the fence*
 
Actually, its about time. Aren't there like nine Foundation books written by other authors after Asimov's death? Bear, Brin & Bova have one each, MacBride has three, and I think there might be another trilogy out there.

I'd bet that the first three by the 3B's were homage as much as a payday. Can't imagine that any other books in that universe are about anything other than filling a few wallets though, a'la Herbert & Anderson.
 
The first book by Mickey Zucker Reichert, called "I, Robot: To Protect", will be released on November 1. Apparently this is the first title of a planned trilogy. I have found a favorable review, but I'm not allowed to post the link since I don't have enough posts. :(

Here's the blurb from Amazon:
2035: Susan Calvin is beginning her residency at a Manhattan teaching hospital, where a select group of patients is receiving the latest in diagnostic advancements: tiny nanobots, injected into the spinal fluid, that can unlock and map the human mind.

Soon, Susan begins to notice an ominous chain of events surrounding the patients. When she tries to alert her superiors, she is ignored by those who want to keep the project far from any scrutiny for the sake of their own agenda. But what no one knows is that the very technology to which they have given life is now under the control of those who seek to spread only death...
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Hmm, nanobots don't really seem to fit in the Robot universe. And the author of the blurb apparently doesn't know what "nano" means.
 
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