Title: The Naked Sun
Author: Isaac Asimov
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Genre: Science Fiction
Pages: 257
Rating: 5/5 stars
Reading Challenges: Perpetual - NPR Scifi/Fantasy; Ebook
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!
I loved this one! In the last book, we got to see the culture on Earth and Baley started to see what lay beyond. In this book, Baley travels to another world and gets a whole new perspective. I loved the change of setting and the expansion of the book universe. Plus we get more information about the state of the universe and the relationship between the various planets. The murder mystery itself was sufficiently interesting, but was used to illustrate the larger problems facing humanity. So so good!
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