Naked Sun (Bantam Spectra Book) (Robot): 2 - Softcover

Asimov, Isaac

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553293397 ISBN 13: 9780553293395

Publisher: Bantam USA, 1991

Synopsis

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!"

About this title

Review:

‘One of the classic presentations of the womb-city, metropolis as mother, which has haunted imaginations ever since... The Caves of Steel and The Naked Sun are the best books Isaac Asimov ever wrote’
The Guardian

‘Isaac Asimov was one of the great explainers of the age...It will never be known how many practicing scientists today, in how many countries, owe their initial inspiration to a book, article, or short story by Isaac Asimov’
Carl Sagan

‘Asimov displayed one of the most dynamic imaginations in science fiction’
Daily Telegraph

‘Asimov’s career was one of the most formidable in science fiction’
The Times

From the Back Cover:

Like all Earthmen, Detective Elijah Baley has a terror of open landscape, of the naked sun.

Reacting in fear against the technological superiority of the Outer Worlds, the people of Earth have hidden themselves in vast underground cities, nursing a hatred for Spacers. The fifty Outer Worlds of the Spacers together are home to fewer people than planet Earth. And home to many, many more robots. Earthmen hate Spacer robots too ...

But Baley doesn’t. He once had a robot partner, R. Daneel – and when the authorities of the planet Solaria request terrestrial assistance in investigating a murder, Baley is once again teamed with Daneel. He is the first Earthman in a millennium to travel to the Outer Worlds ... and he must endure the glare of a sun far more deadly than Earth’s.

THE THREE LAWS OF ROBOTICS

· A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm
· A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law
· A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law

“'The Caves of Steel' and 'The Naked Sun' are the best books Asimov ever wrote”
THE GUARDIAN

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam USA
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0553293397
• ISBN 13: 9780553293395
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 288