Asimov Estate Authorizes New I, Robot Books

daria42 writes "In a move guaranteed to annoy long-term science fiction fans, the estate of legendary science fiction author Isaac Asimov, who passed away in 1992, has authorized a trilogy of sequels to his beloved I, Robot short story series, to be written by relatively unknown fantasy author Mickey Zucker Reichert. The move is already garnering opposition online. 'Isaac Asimov died forty years after they were first written. If he had wanted to follow them up, he would have. The author's intentions need to be respected here,' writes sci-fi/fantasy book site Keeping the Door."

0th law of famous sci fi writers' estates

[syousef]

The 0th law is thou shalt sell out and cash in big.

It overrides the other 3 laws ;-)

Re:Heh

[PaintyThePirate]

No, that would be the same if Asimov rose from the dead and decided to write three more books.

but it begs for sequels!

[JeanBaptiste]

I, Robot
You, Robot
Him, Robot
They, Robot.

In other languages there's even more conjugations possible!

Re:How about we pay the author not to write them?

[Runaway1956]

Hmmm. I know you're right, but they DID manage to capture almost 3% of Starship Troopers. That was an amazingly good job on Hollywood's part, wasn't it? Just imagine - if they use the same directors and screenwriters, they might get as much as 5% of the Robot series. Wow. What an idea.

Nahhh - sitting through 95 minutes of mindless drivel that is totally unrelated to the story just to see those 5 good minutes is unendurable.

New book:

[W1sdOm_tOOth]

1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2) A robot must obey any orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
4) ???
5) A robot collects profit.
6) WTF???

Re:Cry, Robot...

[symbolset]

It's bad enough that the man's offspring will be exploiting his written work from now until copyrights expire in 9320 CE. That his heirs should corrupt his legacy with spinoffs is despicable. It's equivalent to mounting his corpse on an animatronic frame to lead tours at EPCOT center. Strike that - it's worse - he probably would approve of the latter. Make that "The Creationist History Museum".

Re:Sell out?

[Anonymous Coward]

And that's why I'm making you this SPECIAL offer! If you act now I'll send you 1 cubic centimeter of Robert Heinlein's ashes sealed in a genuine high-strength plastic cube for only $49.95. And for only $69.96 we'll also send you cells scraped from Isaac Asomov's corpse and enclosed in a beautiful commemorative solid Lucite cube! For $129.95 we'll send you all this PLUS Gene Roddenberry's toenail preserved in liquid nitrogen.

And if you let us pay you $150.00, we'll send you Harlan Ellison, just to get the hell rid of him. He's not dead yet though. But he'll make an excellent doorstop.

Re:How about we pay the author not to write them?

[Nitewing98]

Don't you mean "R. Danielle Steele?"

Re:Cry, Robot...

[Cro Magnon]

As far as I'm concerned, DS9 is canon, Voyager should be shot out of a cannon, and Enterprise should be shot WITH a cannon.