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Andrew is a robot. After 200 years of serving the same family, he has developed artistic skills, made money and been allowed to buy his own freedom. He has only one wish: to be as human as possible; he then starts a fight against his condition, against prejudice, selfishness, narrowmindedness and hate. Eventually he becomes human.

Asimov's Bicentennial man is not a typical science-fiction book nor a typical Asimov story, but a metaphor too. It definately could be seen as a tale about racism and slavery. It is a frequent topic in Asimov, where all throughout the Robot stories, robots are often victims of humans, and where Isaac Asimov analyses situations where robots pose a social challenge to humanity and put our own values to the test.

 

 


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