Prelude to Foundation is fun actually. The protagonist is a mathematician. He regrets creating his theory more and more as the story progresses (even though, with each chapter, he gets closer to start developing it seriously). He's generally a meek person but manages to run into (or throw himself into) problems every time he steps outside. His companion is a historian trying to keep him safe. She was ready to end a man's whole career. She learns how to fight with knives and bests a man by cutting his mustache (and some skin). He tries to flirt with her in the most disastrous way ever. A street urchin gives them a couple favors and decides to adopt them as family. The Mayor of a powerful sector speaks the same lingo as said street urchin. The matematician witnesses a whole coup in his nightgown. Pulling the strings there's a savvy journalist trying to hide the mathematician from the Prime Minister. Those two are actually the same person. They're also a robot.
Mock covers I designed and partially illustrated +AI
Actually all of these were for The Caves of Steel, I just decided to pop another title on for the heck of it. If it were The Naked Sun, the Spacer worlds wouldn’t so densely populated, and they'd be wearing more foreign clothing.
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thinking about daneel's "go, and sin no more" today. thinking about how young he was in that book and how that was probably the first time it was left totally up to him how to reprimand someone's behavior (i.e., whether to punish or forgive the crime at hand). do y'all think fastolfe knew that by putting daneel in charge of the murder investigation he'd allow daneel the chance to learn how to show mercy? do you think he could have guessed it would be because daneel met some shaking chihuahua of a man, and that said man permanently changed how daneel saw humanity and emotions? do y'all ever think about how elijah was daneel's first glimpse into a world of spiritual healing, conflicting actions, and trusting someone to do the right thing for the betterment of the people around them? and what that says about the way spacers exist compared to earthen culture, and how for a society that claims to value their robots as equals, it took an agoraphobic, bigoted earther to teach daneel how to forgive? to allow daneel to recognize when someone had wronged him and his family? to acknowledge that daneel would likely be handling the loss of sarton for the rest of his life? and that the most healing action sometimes isn't the obvious choice? cause uh. i'm thinking about it.
Imagine getting really into the Robots series by Isaac Asimov, following the story of human detective Elijah Baley and his robot partner R. Daneel Olivaw.
It is still my headcanon that when they first kissed Daneel forgot to close his eyes. He sort of knew about the earth’s custom but he wasn’t able to process that in time XD (also Lije was kinda drunk)
Everyone knows humaniform robots can't function properly... All they know is the Zeroth Law, loving menfailures, dressing fashionably, eat hot chip and die. -@yeastpanini