Talk:Robots and Empire

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Assessment

I have reduced this to a Start. There is no real discussion of the novel from other perspectives such as secondary sources nor its impact and only one reference. It is mainly a plot summary.

Chaosdruid (talk) 23:40, 20 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Also, the Robots and Empire#Reception section has only one minor entry that may be unrepresentative. More is needed. Zaslav (talk) 05:15, 25 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Found an earlier reference to "psychohistory"

I am just in the middle of rereading "Robots and Empire" for the second time. On page 186 of the Doubleday hardcover edition, a conversation is occurring between robots Daneel and Giskard, just after Gladia's speech to the people of Baleyworld. In this conversation, Giskard discusses his observations while mentally adjusting some of the people, then says that this observation "might itself be the First Law of Psychohistory". Since Giskard dies at the end of this book (year 4970 of the Galactic Era (GE)), it must be Daneel who (somehow) gets psychohistory into the mind of Hari Seldon (born: 11,988 GE). Not sure whether to add this note to the "Foundation universe" article, or the "Robots and Empire" article, or both. Neilrieck (talk) 11:51, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]