Great story! But having never seen the movie, I was surprised at how long it took for the humans to actually meet aliens.

It’s just not interesting to me. I may try reading it again sometime, but I have many more enjoyable books waiting for me. :)

Great book. I definitely recommend this, even though the ending is a bit cheesy.

A great book! It ended with an awful cliffhanger, though, and I don’t have the next book of the series. :(

Some of the stories were good, but most were just okay.

I generally like science fiction more than fantasy, but this book is great. I read the series a couple years ago, and it is just as good as I remember.

Generally the stories are good, but there are a few in here which are unintentionally funny.

Horrible. More than a few times I couldn’t help laughing at the horrendousness of this movie. For example, in a fight scene, Violet kicked an enemy’s arm and he immediately fell over, dead… also, there were at least two scenes where enemies were all around her and she killed them all by spinning in a circle with a sword. Twice in the movie, people told her she couldn’t do something, and she said, “Watch me” in that uber-cool voice she seems to love using. stabs Die! Arrgh.

Asimov never disappoints.

Not my kind of book. Life on other planets is much too earthlike (animals that seem to be a cross between a moose and a mule, sea creatures similar to loch ness monster, flowers, green jungles…) and thus unbelievable.