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| Original Title: | The Naked Sun |
| ISBN: | 0586010165 (ISBN13: 9780586010167) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Robot #2, Foundation Universe |
| Characters: | Elijah Baley, R. Daneel Olivaw, Gladia Delmarre |
Isaac Asimov
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 208 pages Rating: 4.16 | 40877 Users | 1418 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Naked Sun (Robot #2) |
| Author | : | Isaac Asimov |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | 15th printing |
| Pages | : | Pages: 208 pages |
| Published | : | 1996 by HarperCollins Publishers (first published December 1956) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fiction. Mystery |
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A millennium into the future, two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the Galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. On the beautiful Outer World planet of Solaria, a handful of human colonists lead a hermit-like existence, their every need attended to by their faithful robot servants. To this strange and provocative planet comes Detective Elijah Baley, sent from the streets of New York with his positronic partner, the robot R. Daneel Olivaw, to solve an incredible murder that has rocked Solaria to its foundations. The victim had been so reclusive that he appeared to his associates only through holographic projection. Yet someone had gotten close enough to bludgeon him to death while robots looked on. Now Baley and Olivaw are faced with two clear impossibilities: Either the Solarian was killed by one of his robots - unthinkable under the laws of Robotics - or he was killed by the woman who loved him so much that she never came into his presence!Rating About Books The Naked Sun (Robot #2)
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Nutshell: superstar earthling detective imported to dyslibertopian planet to investigate murder.Libertarian dystopia is Solaria, a planet of 20,000 human persons who live on separate estates, worked by 200,000,000 robot slaves (28-29). The libertarian individualism is so complete that humans don't "see" each other, but merely "view" on television (63). Names are not used on more than one person (55). Their excess is sufficient "to devote a single room to a single purpose": library, music room,A sci-fi murder mystery; alternate title Columbo in the Land of Too Many Robots. Detective Elijah Baley and his robot partner R. Daneel Olivaw continue their partnership (yes, I know Columbo worked alone, but Baley comes off as more of a rumpled blue-collar Columbo than a Sherlock Holmes) from the previous novel (The Caves of Steel) on the world of Solaria. On Solaria, robots outnumber humans 10,000/1, and humans cannot stand to be physically present withlet alone be touched bya fellow human.
4.5 stars. I just re-read this story after first reading it years ago. This is the second book of the Robot series taking place shortly after the excellent The Caves of Steel. Like The Caves of Steel, this story is structured as a murder mystery though this one is set on the Spacer world of Solaria. Again, Elijah Bailey is reunited with his robot partner Daneel Olivaw to investigate the murder, thus time of a Solarian scientist. Asimov continues his exploration of the contrast between Earth
I am glad I decided to continue with this series. It's basically a good ol' detective story within a world where humans living with robots and had populated other planets. There is a juxtaposition between worlds here - the increasingly isolationist Earth with their enclosed cities and a planet where the MC investigated a murder in - Solaria - where the humans grew physically apart from each other for almost their whole life, lived individually in their own estate, got married only when they've
On the beautiful Outer World planet of Solaria, a handful of human colonists lead a hermit-like existence, their every need attended to by their faithful robot servants. To this strange and provocative planet comes Detective Elijah Baley, sent from the streets of New York with his positronic partner, the robot R. Daneel Olivaw, to solve an incredible murder that has rocked Solaria to its foundations. The victim had been so reclusive that he appeared to his associates only through holographic
Science fiction and mystery novels go together so well that Im always a bit surprised there arent more of them (while I know several others, it is not a sub-genre that really seems prominent). After all, the idea of a mystery is the focus on discovering answers, and science fiction is (as it has always seemed to me at least) a way to reflect on the ways people interact with each other, with technology and with our environment. The basic things we look for in a murder mystery are motive, the
Asimov is quickly winning my heart. His work with AIs and world building are phenomenal. He can even make me love a genre I don't tend to read (detective mysteries). I can't wait to read more
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