To Protect, Mickey Zucker Reichert
To Protect, Mickey Zucker Reichert
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To Protect

Author: Mickey Zucker Reichert

Narrator: Alma Cuervo

Unabridged: 13 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/24/2012

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

The best-selling author of the popular Renshai series, Mickey Zucker Reichert pens I, Robot: To Protect-the first in a trilogy inspired by the Isaac Asimov classic I, Robot. It's the year 2035, and robot psychologist Dr. Susan Calvin is beginning her residency at a teaching hospital where patients are being injected with diagnostic nanobots. Before long, Susan realizes that the injections portend dire consequences- and that the nanobots are being used to facilitate a deadly scheme.

About Mickey Zucker Reichert

Mickey Zucker Reichert is a pediatrician, parent, animal lover, and author of twenty-some novels including the Nightfall, Barakhai, and Bifrost series, the Robots and Chaos novels of Asimov's I, Robot, one illustrated novella, and fifty-plus short stories. She is most known for her popular Renshai novels.


Reviews

Q: Manhattan Hasbro had three paging systems, in addition to direct calls to personal Vox. (c) Sounds like a nightmare to navigate. Multiple systems doing overlapping (or even the same functionality? This future is inefficient! Robopsychoanalysis! Q: “Now you’re psychoanalyzing robots? What’s next, the......more

Goodreads review by Anna

It's tough writing a prequel to a book written by a master. Many decades have passed since Asimov wrote his original, however. What flew then ... an almost emotionally robotic Susan Calvin who was in many ways -less- emotional than her robot subjects ... in the age when women in science were conside......more

I read this book a while ago, last year. I highly recommend it to people who like philosophical, science fiction, and possibly diseases. It certain parts of the story, the plot can become very serious. There are things that refer to a matter of life and death, but I think that's one of the aspects o......more

Goodreads review by Tim

I enjoyed this book very much despite my qualms over its ideology, the Mills & Boon female fantasy and an ending written to be made into an action film (when I want an ending like that, I will go to the movies). But no spoilers from me! The novel may regarded as the first chrono-item in the robot/fou......more