Asimov Estate Authorizes New I, Robot Books

Posted by timothy on Sunday November 1, 2009 @01:20PM from the automatic-writing dept.

daria42 writes "In a move guaranteed to annoy long-term science fiction fans, the estate of legendary science fiction author Isaac Asimov, who passed away in 1992, has authorized a trilogy of sequels to his beloved I, Robot short story series, to be written by relatively unknown fantasy author Mickey Zucker Reichert. The move is already garnering opposition online. 'Isaac Asimov died forty years after they were first written. If he had wanted to follow them up, he would have. The author's intentions need to be respected here,' writes sci-fi/fantasy book site Keeping the Door."

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0th law of famous sci fi writers' estates by syousef · 2009-11-01 13:24 · Score: 5, Funny

The 0th law is thou shalt sell out and cash in big.
It overrides the other 3 laws ;-)

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Re:Heh by PaintyThePirate · 2009-11-01 13:33 · Score: 5, Funny

No, that would be the same if Asimov rose from the dead and decided to write three more books.

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Re:How about we pay the author not to write them? by Nitewing98 · 2009-11-01 16:47 · Score: 4, Funny

Don't you mean "R. Danielle Steele?"

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