A quick, entertaining read, and I liked some of the ideas for evolving AI rather than trying to build it from scratch. Pity about the racist Japanese “accent” one character uses for a while, though. What was acceptably humorous in the early 80s (well, if you weren’t Asian, at least) is cringeworthy now.

Like the first of the series, good sci-fi with neat ideas on robotics and AI, occasionally marred by weird racial accents and stereotypes. Explained away a tiny bit better in this book than in the first as an aspect of the society, but...still weird and offputting.

A quick and very enjoyable read about a cranky, antisocial security android who just wants to watch their shows, but has all these annoying humans to take care of. Quick moving and darkly humorous, it felt like a SFictional take on the autism spectrum (said as a neurotypical who is entirely guessing, and could be far off base with that).