I finally got around to reading Robot and Aliens (my "to read" pile is a looong book shelf long), the cover was great, it was two fascinating studies on what it is to be human. Like all great science fiction it used the Robot and Alien setting to reflect back to the reader, his/her own life/humanity. What defines us? It turns out the "laws of humanics" as described by Oltion via his character Lucius, is #1 humans do what pleases them most, and #2 humans cannot harm a friend or through inaction let a friend come to harm. Fascinating stuff especially the introducing essays by Isaac Asimov, while I never read any of his books I can see why he was such a influence on the Genre and modern literature. So thank you again for the book, I enjoyed it very much and at some point I will finish the rest of the books you've given me over the years as I make my way through my "to read" pile.

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