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start with the robot series. Get the full saga.
And don't stop after the trilogy there's seven foundation books in all.
Actually just read all of Asimov while you are at it.
I mean... I wasn't going to ~~warn them~~ tell them about that part....
you know. get them hooked first, you know. then show them everything...
All!? didnt he pen a ridiculous number of books and is one of the few to get a book in every part of the Dewey decimal system?
@BeigeAgenda @FuglyDuck What about the three authorised Foundation books written by other authors since Asimov's death?
I'm generally avoiding books written posthumously, there's too many examples of mediocre to poor books being made to cash in on an author's name.
Are they any good?
@BeigeAgenda I've only read Foundation and Chaos by Greg Bear. it's pretty good but it's about events that are happening in parallel with the beginning of Foundation so the overall saga is incredibly complicated and multi-layered. Foundation and Chaos also references the laws of robotics which are not mentioned in the original trilogy.
@FuglyDuck @norbert@kbin.social The robot books featuring detective Elijah Bailey are all very good. The Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun, The Robots of Dawn and Robots and Empire.
yes they are. (that's, uh, why I recommended them?)
my favorite I, Robot short is "reason". ("Good god! a Robot Descartes!")