Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site usceast.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!mcnc!ncsu!ncrcae!usceast!ted From: ted@usceast.UUCP (Ted Nolan) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Robots of Dawn -> -> tieins Message-ID: <2130@usceast.UUCP> Date: Fri, 9-Nov-84 16:03:13 EST Article-I.D.: usceast.2130 Posted: Fri Nov 9 16:03:13 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 10-Nov-84 21:18:23 EST References: <558@rayssd.UUCP> <2471@ihuxf.UUCP> <353@mhuxt.UUCP> Reply-To: ted@usceast.UUCP (System Programmer) Organization: Csci Dept, U of S. Carolina, Columbia Lines: 36 Summary: In article <353@mhuxt.UUCP> js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag) writes: > >Jeff Sonntag >ihnp4!mhuxl!mhuxt!js2j > >p.s. For extra credit, what was the name of the robot who became a man, the > name of the book, and the year in which it occured? I beleive it was in 2076 and the robots name was something Martin (he is mentioned in the Robots of Dawn) . I think the book was The Bicentenial Man. I've noticed that in his most recent 2 SF books Asimov is starting to tie a large body of his work into one universe. In _Foundations Edge_ he brings in the robots (and why there are no more) and "eternity" from _The End of Eternity_ and the planet from "Misbegotten Missionary" . In _The Robots of Dawn_, he shows the robots making the decision that they are bad for humanity and tells why the second wave of outmigration from Earth leaves the Spacer worlds alone and forgotten by the time of the First Empire. What I want to know is how he will explain the Earth's becoming radioactive. It is not so in Bayley's time, but it is in _The Stars Like Dust_ (which takes place before the First Empire, but after the settlement of Trantor) Any ideas? And for that matter, why the compulsion to tie everything together. (And where does _Pebble in the Sky_ go ,if anywhere? (Wasn't the snaypsifer mentioned in _Foundations Edge_ ? ) ) Ted Nolan ..usceast!ted -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ted Nolan ...decvax!mcnc!ncsu!ncrcae!usceast!ted 6536 Brookside Circle ...akgua!usceast!ted Columbia, SC 29206 ("Deep space is my dwelling place, the stars my destination") -------------------------------------------------------------------------------