{"id":1302,"date":"2017-01-02T09:31:11","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T15:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/?p=1302"},"modified":"2017-01-02T22:03:42","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T04:03:42","slug":"robots-for-asimov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/robots-for-asimov\/","title":{"rendered":"Robots for Asimov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/I-Robot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1304 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/I-Robot-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"i-robot\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/I-Robot-202x300.jpg 202w, http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/I-Robot.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a>I apologize for the campaign-esque sound of the title.\u00a0 I&#8217;m still trying to get 2016 out of my head.\u00a0 Anyway, I <a href=\"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/obligatory-first-of-year-post\/\">said yesterday<\/a> at <em>Adventures Fantastic<\/em> that I&#8217;m going to be reading more of the classics of the field.\u00a0 Furthermore I specifically named Asimov&#8217;s robot stories as one of the things I&#8217;ll be reading.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Asimov&#8217;s 97th birthday today.\u00a0 He was born January 2, 1920, in Russia.\u00a0 I first read the robot stories in 7th grade.\u00a0 It&#8217;s been more than a decade (going on two decades now) since I last read one of them.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve read a few Asimov stories over the past year; I&#8217;m about a third of the way through <em>The Winds of Change<\/em> right now.<\/p>\n<p>The robot stories have all been collected in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Complete-Robot-Isaac-Asimov\/dp\/0586057242\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1483370745&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=asimov+complete+robot\"><em>The Complete Robot<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve got a copy around somewhere, if I an ever find the darn thing.\u00a0 I&#8217;m looking forward to diving into them.\u00a0 Robots used to be pretty\u00a0 ubiquitous in science fiction, but you don&#8217;t see them that much these days.\u00a0 They&#8217;ve been supplanted by AIs.\u00a0 Still, I like the old-fashioned robots, and Asimov did them better than anyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I apologize for the campaign-esque sound of the title.\u00a0 I&#8217;m still trying to get 2016 out of my head.\u00a0 Anyway, I said yesterday at Adventures Fantastic that I&#8217;m going to be reading more of the classics of the field.\u00a0 Furthermore I specifically named Asimov&#8217;s robot stories as one of the things I&#8217;ll be reading. 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