It has been almost 20 years since I read this series at my local library over the period of several months before walking to work nearby. I have enjoyed listening to your recordings during my commute and morning chores. Thank you.
I started reading Asimov 50-ish years ago,when i was 14. Really loved it, but only now do i realize that the book was actually more than fun: it is great.
I grew up reading Asimov, Heinlein, Niven, Simak, Zelazny, and other greats of the genre . Asimov still holds his place in my personal pantheon. I think that his exploration of human societies' relationships with technology is still quite relevant.
Thank you so much for posting these books! It reminds me of my junior year in highschool when I skipped class and found Asimov in the library! I subscribed and will follow your channel loyally lol. Thanks again!
@@hhumca grow up!,A ROWBAT really,? Is that the best you can do? ,I,M guessing your a American teen early 20s maybe or a Brit, then again most young people i meet, are disparaging/disappointing suppose i just try not to think on it,lucky im old, must be rough being a teen nowadays,2024 or 1984, brother
Took me a few chapters to be sure this was being read by AI, rather than just occasional human error. I generally don't enjoy the idea of AI audiobooks but they are getting better and seems quite fitting for this story - like being read a bedtime story by your own robot.
He writes a masterpiece that terrifies ...especially as we the first gen to mechanically accept robots, despite them predicting our ultimate demise..he writes with amazing accuracy.
wait untill 2030 Paul, the Terminator will be like a how to Manual, packs of armed robot dogs and BIG DOGS with mini copters(,black hornet drone) microwave scanning heat sensitive drones in the sky's, goto get rid of NINE TENTHS of the useless eaters, carbon reduction us being the carbon, food water the final weapons maybe ive just read to much sci fi. or it would be madness
Thank you for doing a great service to the inquisitive mind. This novel was fantastic to listen to. The other novels u post are great to lose yourself to! You are amazing!
Great job with this, Aetherial! The AI reader is amazingly good and adds to the experience of hearing a story about robots and how they may affect the course of humanity.
I don't hear this as mechanical in any way. He speaks clearly at an easy pace, taking good notice of the punctuation . Not too easy to do. But Asimov could write! Good stuff.
This AI (Artificial Intelligence) reader is better than many others that I've experienced. The channel owner disclosed in the description that the reader IS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.
We are less than a generation away from not caring if the narrator is not human. Maybe only a generation away from having citizens who only relate via the internet. View you soon
Don't think this is AI, you can hear his breath, and his voice changes and intensifies on certain words. He also has a better feel for the grammar than most AI readers. He isn't the most dynamic of narrators though, hence why many think it is AI.
There was a YA novel from 1974 called "The Bladerunner" written by Alan E. Nourse. Dystopian. Oppressive society with strictly controlled access to Healthcare . Protagonist smuggles illicit medical supplies to what passes for doctors outside the regime.
In contrast to other comments here, I find this work and its presentation engage only when it hits the heights of mediocrity. The problem for the fifties American Sci-fi writers like Asimov is that they lack any literary quality. When I was a kid I loved this genre and the likes of Asimov were a staple diet of my own creative development. But that was back in the 1960's and the stories have not worn the wind of time well but eroded in short decades to be left as crumbling monuments of a time well past. In their day it was the vision of the future which drove the text rather than any poetic prose. Mathematicians such as Asimov write in the same format as a policeman's notebook; a list of statements of 'facts'. They were not literary people but science people and that difference means that the stories only stand the test of time when the insights of the future hold good. Sadly, and I do mean that, this is not the case for much of that genre which came from the 1950s as it is a projection of the American culture in which men are tobacco men and women are washing machine housewives. Huge clunky spaceships staffed by battlefleets of engineers, gunners, soldiers and galley staff lumber around the universe threatening to use atomics. Strangely, the 'scientists' behind these texts failed to see the impact of computers and the development of metallurgy. So what we are left with is a quaint reminder of our own past readings, a romantic remembering rather than any vision of the future. This could still stand the test of time if actually narrated by someone who understood narration as a profession rather than as a hobby. In this presentation, the absence of cadence, intonation and characterisation emphasises the underlying issues with the text which I have already described. The sentences are read statement by statement with a monotone pace that is unchanging. A metronomic chant more reminiscent of a 54 Chevy Truck ticking off the miles on a long desert highway. What a shame because there still remains a good place for this fiction if imaginatively worked at and none, including myself, should deny its place in the history of the genre.
"The voice narrating this book is generated by artificial intelligence." There is something very funny about Naked Sun in particular being narrated by a generated voice.
It's always interesting to see the blind spots people have when thinking about the future, or perhaps they are not blind spots at all, just what the audience of the time would bear. Just as in Star Trek they had to wind back their ideas of the future so as to not outrage their audience. In this case smoking and smacking children. Both seem nearly extinct now, hopefully anyway. I wonder what blind spots we have.
LOL! The AIs have gotten so good that people are now proud of their ability to distinguish machine and human voices. Asimov would be amazed. Ten years from now: "hate robots trying to get with me tho. i can always tell 😢😀
Great book -- a classic on artificial intelligence, read by an astoundingly advanced AI voice that can almost pass as human, offered to you here completely free of charge. And you complain. 🙄 😄
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Thank you for bringing to life the stories I enjoyed over 50 years ago. Please continue the series. Both of them.
It has been almost 20 years since I read this series at my local library over the period of several months before walking to work nearby.
I have enjoyed listening to your recordings during my commute and morning chores.
Thank you.
I started reading Asimov 50-ish years ago,when i was 14. Really loved it, but only now do i realize that the book was actually more than fun: it is great.
I grew up reading Asimov, Heinlein, Niven, Simak, Zelazny, and other greats of the genre . Asimov still holds his place in my personal pantheon. I think that his exploration of human societies' relationships with technology is still quite relevant.
I began with Zelaznys' Amber series. And moved on to Azimov's Foundation Trilogy, never looked back.
I never left the library without a few sci fi books under my arm. I just looked for the rocket and atom symbol on a book and grabbed it.
Thank you so much for posting these books! It reminds me of my junior year in highschool when I skipped class and found Asimov in the library! I subscribed and will follow your channel loyally lol. Thanks again!
"Spending the weekend sipping a cup of tea and listening. Life is so wonderful. Thank you to the channel owner!"
Ironic, and fitting, that one of the Robot novels is being read by a robot...
Great fudging point
The prophecy is being fulfilled !!!
Hey *I* was gonna say that!
NO...a rowbat.
@@hhumca grow up!,A ROWBAT really,? Is that the best you can do? ,I,M guessing your a American teen early 20s maybe or a Brit, then again most young people i meet, are disparaging/disappointing suppose i just try not to think on it,lucky im old, must be rough being a teen nowadays,2024 or 1984, brother
Took me a few chapters to be sure this was being read by AI, rather than just occasional human error. I generally don't enjoy the idea of AI audiobooks but they are getting better and seems quite fitting for this story - like being read a bedtime story by your own robot.
Whoever is the narrator deserve much credit, best english narration i have listen till now
Its an AI...
it's AI
@@mr.x4001 then the ai deserve the credit
Thank you for posting these videos. I have forgotten these great books!
This video is absolutely amazing! The content is engaging, and the effort put into it is truly commendable. Keep up the fantastic work!"
Thank you so much for putting this together! I like the voice you chose!
He writes a masterpiece that terrifies ...especially as we the first gen to mechanically accept robots, despite them predicting our ultimate demise..he writes with amazing accuracy.
wait untill 2030 Paul, the Terminator will be like a how to Manual, packs of armed robot dogs and BIG DOGS with mini copters(,black hornet drone) microwave scanning heat sensitive
drones in the sky's, goto get rid of NINE TENTHS of the useless eaters, carbon reduction us being the carbon, food water the final weapons
maybe ive just read to much sci fi. or it would be madness
Intriguing story. I can't believe that I missed that the killer wasn't actually revealed in the denouement!! Very clever.
Thank you for doing a great service to the inquisitive mind. This novel was fantastic to listen to. The other novels u post are great to lose yourself to! You are amazing!
Great audiobook, thank you.
BRILLIANT ! Amazing, loved it thank you
Great job with this, Aetherial! The AI reader is amazingly good and adds to the experience of hearing a story about robots and how they may affect the course of humanity.
I don't normally like mechanical readers, but it is quite fitting for this subject matter.
I don't hear this as mechanical in any way. He speaks clearly at an easy pace, taking good notice of the punctuation . Not too easy to do. But Asimov could write! Good stuff.
It’s an AI voice, read the description 😉
@@babematerial5796And a few typical AI reader errors in pronunciation and phrasing. But bearable in this case.
@@charleslangrishl9124 it's artificial intelligence. it's not a real person reading the book. it is irony
This is AI? What the hell! It sounds amazing!!
This was good thank you! ❤
I read this as a kid, it is like a walk down memory lane.
Really good thanks
I read all of his works brilliant man
Thank You.. Still so amazing❤😊
This AI (Artificial Intelligence) reader is better than many others that I've experienced. The channel owner disclosed in the description that the reader IS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.
I used to have a little library and all of Asimov 's fiction works. ❤.
The AI reader isn’t too bad. I enjoyed the story.
Sort of ironic
Indeed
Superb.Thank you.
I thought I'd read all of the Robot books although that was a long time ago and quite frankly I don't recall much other than Caves.
Will you upload the third book in the trilogy? Thank you for this by the way
Yes hopefully soon
such good tech for phone calls and imaging - and yet no recording instruments in the robots at all? Seems like an oversight.
excellent writing though.....unfiltered.
@3:10:42, Again, foreshadowing the Zeroth Law
Johosafat !
We are less than a generation away from not caring if the narrator is not human. Maybe only a generation away from having citizens who only relate via the internet. View you soon
At my age, I'm tempted to say "done viewing"!
Don't think this is AI, you can hear his breath, and his voice changes and intensifies on certain words. He also has a better feel for the grammar than most AI readers. He isn't the most dynamic of narrators though, hence why many think it is AI.
In the description it does indeed say this is an ai voice 😊
Turing test achieved? 🙂
@@mac195000 It's nothing like a pass.
@@lew6598 It passed bludyhellcats's test though.
I thought it was real too, it’s very good!
Asimov is totally fking with the audience. The only sane person in the entire book is redhanded labelled a murderer. Wtf these people. Great writing!
I’m gunna be pissed if it turns out one of the robots killed the guy. Like seriously, that’s such an obvious plot direction.
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Nice voice.. Anyway.. Well narre..
They could at least check these to make sure they are getting the main characters name pronounced correctly
Whose to say what's correct, robots can be right too 😉
Does Bladerunner borrow heavily from this story?
No. Blade Runner is based on a Philip K Dick story called "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"
There was a YA novel from 1974 called "The Bladerunner" written by Alan E. Nourse. Dystopian. Oppressive society with strictly controlled access to Healthcare . Protagonist smuggles illicit medical supplies to what passes for doctors outside the regime.
@@sub-jec-tiv Was Phillip K D1ck influenced by Asimov?
Really this is read by an IA? If so a lot better than the old VA.
Gets to 3H then repeats a convo ever and over.
The book continues as normal for me 🤷🏻♀️
@@kelimutscheller1960 Same here.
In contrast to other comments here, I find this work and its presentation engage only when it hits the heights of mediocrity. The problem for the fifties American Sci-fi writers like Asimov is that they lack any literary quality. When I was a kid I loved this genre and the likes of Asimov were a staple diet of my own creative development. But that was back in the 1960's and the stories have not worn the wind of time well but eroded in short decades to be left as crumbling monuments of a time well past.
In their day it was the vision of the future which drove the text rather than any poetic prose. Mathematicians such as Asimov write in the same format as a policeman's notebook; a list of statements of 'facts'. They were not literary people but science people and that difference means that the stories only stand the test of time when the insights of the future hold good. Sadly, and I do mean that, this is not the case for much of that genre which came from the 1950s as it is a projection of the American culture in which men are tobacco men and women are washing machine housewives. Huge clunky spaceships staffed by battlefleets of engineers, gunners, soldiers and galley staff lumber around the universe threatening to use atomics. Strangely, the 'scientists' behind these texts failed to see the impact of computers and the development of metallurgy.
So what we are left with is a quaint reminder of our own past readings, a romantic remembering rather than any vision of the future. This could still stand the test of time if actually narrated by someone who understood narration as a profession rather than as a hobby. In this presentation, the absence of cadence, intonation and characterisation emphasises the underlying issues with the text which I have already described. The sentences are read statement by statement with a monotone pace that is unchanging. A metronomic chant more reminiscent of a 54 Chevy Truck ticking off the miles on a long desert highway.
What a shame because there still remains a good place for this fiction if imaginatively worked at and none, including myself, should deny its place in the history of the genre.
"The voice narrating this book is generated by artificial intelligence."
There is something very funny about Naked Sun in particular being narrated by a generated voice.
It's always interesting to see the blind spots people have when thinking about the future, or perhaps they are not blind spots at all, just what the audience of the time would bear. Just as in Star Trek they had to wind back their ideas of the future so as to not outrage their audience. In this case smoking and smacking children. Both seem nearly extinct now, hopefully anyway. I wonder what blind spots we have.
I admit I was quite a bit disappointed when Apple tv woke-board decided to changed R. Daneel for a waifu sex doll in their foundation tv series.
The most extreme version of country mouse versus city mouse ever.
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Too bad I Robot can't pronounce Elijah Bailey
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Is this AI Lex Friedman?
lol
Bad ai is horrible to listen to, this is not that!, 1 question, does jehosha fat mean jesus christ or holy shit?
The former, I think. But it could work for both.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehoshaphat
Lee Ja Bally ( hmmmm - Mr AI could you be more consistent?)
Is there a mule in here somewhere?
I only realised this was an AI after some weird pronunciations
59min 44sec…
bucket nekkid sun, noice
👍👀👍
Ai Ryan gosling
The guy narrating is emotionless and uninteresting. I couldn't go on after just 10 minutes, unfortunately.
hate ai voices tho. i can always tell😢
LOL! The AIs have gotten so good that people are now proud of their ability to distinguish machine and human voices. Asimov would be amazed.
Ten years from now: "hate robots trying to get with me tho. i can always tell 😢😀
Boring terrible narrator!
Too deep a voice for a 6th grader. Very monotonic.....need a different one
This uses an AI reader, thumbs down, good bye.
Another AI narrator 😂
Pls share the others for the interested viewers
Hard to say. Love the grammar pauses. And the breaths!🤣
There are several sci-fi books digitally narrated on Jonathan Moeller's channel here on YT
The AI voice is distracting
Good book ruined by AI narration.
Great book -- a classic on artificial intelligence, read by an astoundingly advanced AI voice that can almost pass as human, offered to you here completely free of charge.
And you complain. 🙄 😄
@@mac195000AI reads, your keyword being almost. To me, the book is kindda ruined when Im thinking: This is an artificial voice😑. Peace✌️
30 minutes into this and I don’t know what the fuck is going on. Sorry.
This is part 2 of a series of books, maybe you didn't read the first book?
Can't even pronounce his name.
Elijah Bailey.
Read the book.
Tbh, its just bad. Its not good, its sci fi. This why its not classic
Booooooo
A.I. reading is cringe
Even I understand it is master piece, it so boring...
A.I. reading is CRINGE
Horribly read !
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