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by: Isaac Asimov
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780553293395
ISBN: 0553293397
Label: Spectra
Manufacturer: Spectra
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: November 01, 1991
Publisher: Spectra
Release Date: November 01, 1991
Sales Rank: 17111
Studio: Spectra
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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!
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Rating:  - Asimov takes a murder mystery WAY beyond merely clever!
A thousand years earlier, mankind had split into two groups who now hated one another with a visceral prejudice born out of fear and a complete lack of cultural understanding of one another. Spacers, those who had seen their destiny in the stars, left earth with the assistance of positronic robot technology and colonized fifty worlds scattered throughout the galaxy. One world in particular, Solaria, was so thinly populated that the inhabitants had simply evolved away from the habit of personal contact. ... Read More
Rating:  - The Victorian tradition
I have read many of the thousands of words on this book. Most people seem to have read and enjoyed it, as they should. So I won't add too many more - that ain't necessary. All I will say is that, overlooking the relative thinness of the characterizations, after reading the book (and its predecessor) you might very well go back to the J. Watson / R. Sherlock Holmes stories with an enhanced perception.
Rating:  - A tremendous disappointment
I recently read CAVES OF STEEL and after being seriously disappointed in it I had hopes that THE NAKED SUN would represent an improvement. In fact, it did represent a somewhat tighter story and the protagonist Elijah Baley acted a lot less stupidly than he had in the first novel, but all in all I found the book to be even less satisfactory than the first.
The problems with this book are numerous. One of the more serious difficulties is that Asimov took what was the most interesting part of ... Read More
Rating: - JS on Asimov
I have always liked Isaac Asimov but I thought The Naked Sun excelled all other Asimov that I have read (except, perhaps, the Foundation trilogy.
Rating: - Strong follow-up to Caves of Steel
The Naked Sun by, Isaac Asimov, is a direct sequel to Caves of Steel (Robot City). Once again we see detective Elijah Baley called upon to solve a murder involving a "Spacer" (a human from an Earth colony on another planet) only this time he has to leave Earth to perform the investigation. He is reunited with his robotic partner, R. Daneel Olivaw although the relationship seems a bit more contentious this time around. The two meet on the planet Solaria where a leading citizen has been murdered with a good ... Read More
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