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What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? September 22 (discuss.online)
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Reading Sword of Destiny by Andrzej Sapkowski. Book 2 of The Witcher series.

What about all of you? What have you all been reading or listening to lately?

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[–] 17 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Currently reading Isaac Asimov's I, Robot. It's a fun read, almost done.

One detail that surprised me is the amount of smoking in the book. It's not a lot, but kinda weird that someone would light up a cigarette in a space station.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    I've just recently finished a re-read of the entire main branches of the Robots and the Empire series. The eBooks include forewords by the author describing how the world was changing when he first started writing the characters, he was publishing before computers were invented.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    That's impressive, how many books is that combined?

    It's amazing what he foresaw in his writing. The lying robot reminded me of sycophantic A.I., and the robot laws and how they cause one robot to endlessly circle a pit reminded me of Optimality Theory, which is a linguistic theory from the 1990's.

    I just got the Foundation trilogy from the library, I think I will read that next.

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