This is a continuation of an old Asimov short story. This is the expanded story of Andrew, one of the original robots, now nearly immortal, and very nearly human. Very good collaboration between Asimov and Silverberg. Some of this material made it into the movie, The Bicentennial Man. ( )

One of my favorite novels, as well as the basis for one of my favorite movies, Bicentennial Man, this is the story of a robot who finds his inner humanity and works at making himself more and more human. This story is the antithesis of Frankenstein. ( )

a robot seeking to be human ( )

This is another of those Asimov books I loaned off six years ago and never got back. Like Nightfall and The Ugly Little Boy, this is Silverberg expanding an Asimov short story into a novel, and this is the most successful of the lot. Unlike Nightfall, where the extra bits felt extraneous, Silverberg's expansions onto the already-excellent "The Bicentennial Man" just make a good story even better, providing detail where Asimov skimped-- it is, after all, a story that has to cover two centuries! One of my favorite Asimov stories, and it was even made into a decent Asimov movie. (originally written January 2008)

Link to a review on my personal website (might be in Swedish). ( )