rixx's review against another edition
4.0
This short story by *Isaac Asimov*, available [online](http://www.mcguiremarks.com/uploads/3/9/7/9/39793909/isaac_asimov-all_the_troubles_of_the_world_(1).pdf) was heart-breaking and well-paced. I was kind of sick of reading of dystopic futures with evil, flawed humans and evil, flawed AI everywhere, and this story is a nice break from all that.
octavia_cade's review
3.0
This is a short story presented as its own little book, and as a fan of short stories I do like seeing books like this, which give special focus to the form! It's almost but not quite a picture book - while there are a few illustrations, I wouldn't say there's enough of them to really be a picture book, but the design is nice nonetheless. I also liked the story - it's one of the Multivac tales, and while I've read some of those in various anthologies I don't remember reading this one before. It plays on the idea of artificial intelligence developing emotional intelligence, and what happens when that intelligence becomes depressed. It's a genuinely interesting idea, but it does rely on Idiot Plot somewhere in the middle, where Multivac's minions fail to consider just which family member they are targeting. They do eventually, but given the established practices within the narrative - I am being vague so as not to spoil things - surely this is the very first question which should be asked when a problem arises.
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