The Positronic Man

I found the date references both amusing and a bit sad that we've not progresses as far as Asimov & Silverberg imagined. I did love that they see the Earth circling back to a lower population and more park-like.

The story moves along nicely although some of the sections on what Andrew Martin was thinking was more than I cared to hang in there with. I did find alot of the human and robot interactions very prophetic, to alot of the issues in the news lately around racism and bias.

I had hoped this was the story of Chetter Hummin, of Foundation series, and R Daneel Olivaw, of the Robot series, but the last chapter in this book says Andrew dies. Conspiracy theory might have you saying the death was a ruse but the prior chapters clearly spell out the logic for why he chooses to die. At least wikipedia has answered the long-time, burning, question I had; Is Chetter Hummin and R Dannel Olivaw the same unique robot?