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"Susan Calvin is about to enter her second year as a psych resident at the Manhattan Hasbro teaching hospital when a violent crime strikes very close to home. When she was young, Susan lost her mother in a terrible car wreck that also badly injured her father. She now believes the accident was orchestrated by government officials who wanted her parents dead. Susan has always known there was a faction of the U.S. government that wanted to hijack her father's work for military use. Now it seems that faction is back. As she struggles to overcome her pain and confusion, as well as deal with her studies, Susan finds herself hunted by violent antitech vigilantes who would revert mankind to the Dark Ages-and at the same time she's being watched very closely by extremists who want high-tech genocide. Somehow she must find a way to stop them both."

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"I, Robot: To Protect tells the story of Susan Calvin in Asimov's I, Robot universe. I have never read any of Reichert's works before but I was quite satisfied with this story. Reichert is a pediatrician and her medical background comes through in this story. I don't have much more than a passing knowledge of psychiatry but all of the clinical descriptions of the patients seemed very genuine and plausible. I also appreciated that she explained the bioengineering / nanorobots simply but still correctly. Growing tissue using a polymer scaffold, islet cell transplantation, and nanoscale "robots" (aka programmable viruses) are all very real research areas today. Some of the examples of biotechnology were not crucial for the story (those other than the robots) but it made the story feel all the more convincing that she was using real technology in her futuristic fictional story. I enjoy science fiction that is heavy on the science and lighter on the fiction and this book does not have any of the irritating glossing over of science concepts that authors sometimes do. The character development left something to be desired- the patients that Susan was treating were all very interesting but Susan herself seemed a bit flawless and one-dimensional, something that changes a bit in the last chapter of the book. It was a bit short and the actual robots did not appear until a good 1/3 into the book- the first 1/3 read like a medical drama, which may or may not be enough to hold the interest of some readers. Overall, I enjoyed it. 5 stars."

— Leah (5 out of 5 stars)