The Caves of Steel (Robot #1)
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- Oct, 1953
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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. Isaac Asimov's Robot novels chronicle the unlikely partnership between a New York City detective and a humanoid robot who must learn to work...
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Number of Pages: 206
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One of the delights of the locked room concept is its flexibility. You can adapt it for horror books, historical dramas, postmodernist fiction (see the Umberto Eco book below), or even science fiction—as Isaac Asimov shows in this pulp fiction novel from 1954. Asimov himself viewe...
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One of the delights of the locked room concept is its flexibility. You can adapt it for horror books, historical dramas, postmodernist fiction (see the Umberto Eco book below), or even science fiction—as Isaac Asimov shows in this pulp fiction novel from 1954. Asimov himself viewed science fiction in the most expansive terms—so I suspect he took particular delight in constructing a detective story set many centuries in the future. Adding to the fun, a human detective and robot investigator compete with each other in attempting to solve the 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. Isaac Asimov's Robot novels chronicle the unlikely partnership between a New York City detective and a humanoid robot who must learn to work together. Like most people left behind on an over-populated Earth, New York City police detective Elijah Baley had little love for either the arrogant Spacers or their robotic companions. But when a prominent Spacer is murdered under mysterious circumstances, Baley is ordered to the Outer Worlds to help track down the killer. The relationship between Life and his Spacer superiors, who distrusted all Earthmen, was strained from the start. Then he learned that they had assigned him a partner: R. Daneel Olivaw. Worst of all was that the "R" stood for robot--and his positronic partner was made in the image and likeness of the murder victim!
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