The Positronic Man
- 253
- Pages
- about 4.5 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“The Positronic Man” is a humane, quietly moving robot novel by Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg. Expanding “The Bicentennial Man”, it follows Andrew, a robot who longs to be treated as an equal, and some readers see in his long struggle an echo of real fights against prejudice, though some of them find the passages of his inner reflections overlong. Its appeal lies in ideas and feeling rather than action.
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About the book
The Positronic Man is a 1992 novel by American writers Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg, based on Asimov's 1976 novelette "The Bicentennial Man".
Reading order · Robot series
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Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.9 across 52 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 26% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 7.8 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.0 | 14 | 27% |
| Hardcover | 7.8 | 38 | 73% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Positronic Man?
It has 253 pages — shorter than 87% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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