If the Three Laws made you ponder personhood in tales like “The Bicentennial Man,” “Evidence,” and “That Thou Art Mindful of Him,” you’ll love how Exhalation walks you through big ideas with clarity and heart. Chiang’s stories deliver the same lucid, head-on engagement with questions you wrestled with alongside Susan Calvin—only now the dilemmas span memory, determinism, and the inner life of intelligent beings.

If you enjoyed the logic-puzzle cases in “Little Lost Robot” and Susan Calvin’s forensic reasoning across the robot stories, All Systems Red gives you an on-the-ground mystery told by an AI security unit trying to parse conflicting directives and human unpredictability. It scratches the same itch as those Powell-and-Donovan troubleshooting tales—only the problem-solver is the machine, and its deadpan voice is unforgettable.

If the modular, case-by-case pleasures of stories like “Runaround” and “Reason” hooked you, Lem’s Tales of Pirx the Pilot offers that same vignette rhythm of clever setups and cool-headed problem solving. Each episode drops Pirx into a fresh technical snag—malfunctioning automata, perverse algorithms—and lets you savor the stepwise, Asimov-like unraveling of the puzzle.

If you relished the intellectual click of Asimov’s proofs—how “Evidence” or “Galley Slave” resolves with airtight logic—Egan’s Permutation City scales that sensation up to mind-blowing questions of copies, continuity, and reality itself. It delivers the same satisfaction of watching a careful premise unfold to a daring, inevitable conclusion.

If “Robbie” and “Satisfaction Guaranteed” moved you with tender, uneasy bonds between humans and robots, Klara and the Sun lands in that same ethical sweet spot. Through Klara’s gentle, observant AI perspective, it asks the kinds of questions Asimov raised—about care, consent, and purpose—without lasers or villainy, just the moral weight of everyday choices.