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The Caves of Steel

Isaac Asimov

  • 246 pages · about 4 hours
  • First published 1954
  • 62 editions
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1 About this book

In the future you will walk down the crowded streets of New York City not knowing if the bodies brushing past you are humans or androids. With tensions already mounting between humans and robots, the murder of a Spacer must be handled in a politically-correct fashion so Detective Elijah Baley is assigned a robot partner.

Baley and R. Daneel Olivaw become like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle s Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, Law & Order s Detectives Lennie Brisco and Ed Green, and Training Day s Detective Alonzo Harris and Officer Jake Hoyt disparate partners who must work together to solve a crime. The only problem is, Baley doesn't trust anyone not his boss, not his wife, and certainly not his robot partner.

Good for readers who want: science fiction, a mystery, and space travel.

  • Science fiction
  • Mystery
  • Interplanetary voyages
  • Murder
  • Robots
  • Overpopulation

2 About Isaac Asimov

1920–1992

Isaac Asimov ( AZ-im-ov; c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. During his lifetime, Asimov was considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke. He wrote or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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