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[Kevin Bresnahan]

I'm in the middle of the 8th Will Trent book, The Kept Woman, from author Karin Slaughter. I am enjoying these books & can recommend them for fans of crime novels.

It's a head-scratcher why the show is so different. One of the main characters in the show, Angie Polaski, is a horrible person in the books. One of the books is all about the history of Will's boss Amanda, whose father was a sheriff and a member of the KKK. In the show, Amanda is a black woman. I guess the show will never do an episode about Amanda's father. 🤔

[GA Russell]

short story collection

[jlhoots]

C.J. Box: The Crossroads

[jazzbo]

The first in the Amerotke series.

[Chuck Nessa]

[Stompin at the Savoy]

 

Lately I have been reading The Complete Robot, a compilation of Isaac Asimov's robot series short stories. His Foundation series is engaging and popular but in many ways I think Asimov's Robot series and his 3 laws of robotics are more significant. I am particularly struck by the way Asimov's musings about autonomous control of society by large artificial intelligences become extremely relevant now in light of the advent of artificial intelligence capabilities way beyond what was possible when Asimov wrote his stories. Asimov wrote about the consequences of allowing an autonomous, artificial intelligence to control vehicles, machines, space ships, cities, governments, etc. and now we are seeing a lot of news about autonomous AI weapons systems, etc. "The Evitable Conflict" (1950) is a particularly good story in this regard. You can read it here: http://cdn.michaelgeist.ca/.../04/The-Evitable-Conflict.pdf