On 2009-12-24 medi, Southern Calif. wrote: I am a life-long fan of Asimov´s work, especially his ´Robot Series´. So how could someone like myself resist a title promising ´The New Isaac Asimov´s Robot Mystery?´ Unfortunately I will still be looking for the ´heir to Asimov´ because Tiedemann does not fit the role. I know that it is unrealistic to expect any author to write in same story book style as Asimov. What characterized Asimov was his stories written with such absolute clarity, logic, wit and always ending with unanticipated twist in the plot.
Unfortunately with ´Chimera´ there is none of this. Perhaps because this story is based on previous works Tiedemann feels that character development is not a priority but what the reader is left with is a multitude of one dimensional figures. Furthermore, the storyline is difficult to follow because of the ´hap-hazard´ style of writing where often the reader is suddenly transported into a different vignette where the characters are already in mid- conversation (somewhat of an exaggeration).
In the end I suppose there can only be one ´Grandmaster of SF´ but it would be nice to have an heir that comes close... still looking.. And summed up by saying Not Asimov- Still Looking for an Heir. Currently Chimera: Isaac Asimov´s Robot Mystery has an overall rating of 6 over 10.
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I Books claimed Coren Lanra is the head of security for DyNan Manuel Industries. A former Special Service agent he’s never cared for bureaucracy, piracy, or deception. And he hates mysteries. Lanra’s troubles begin with the death of Nyron Looms, daughter of DyNan president Rega Looms, during an ill-fated mission to smuggle illegal immigrants from Earth to the colony Nova Levis—all were apparently murdered, but why? The only clue might be contained within the postironic brain of a robot that had accompanied the victims, but it has been deactivated, and Lanra is denied access to its memories. To make matters even worse, he is soon confronted with a puzzling complication: a possible connection between the murders and twenty babies who were snatched from an orphanage over two decades ago. With the help of roboticist Derec Avery and Auroran ambassador Ariel Burgess— whom the security chief had aided in exposing an anti-robot conspiracy on Earth a year before—Lanra searches for answers to a twenty-five-year-old mystery . . . and for the identity of a killer, before more lives are lost.
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