The Caves of Steel (Robot Series) - Softcover

Asimov, Isaac

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9780586008355: The Caves of Steel (Robot Series)

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ISBN 10: 0586008357 ISBN 13: 9780586008355

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1985

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The first of Asimov’s robot novels, chronicling the unlikely partnership between a New York City detective and a humanoid robot who must learn to work together.

Detective Elijah Baley invesitgates the murder of an offworlder in Spacetown. In the opinion of the Spacers, the murder is tied up with recent attempts to sabotage the Spacer-sponsored project of converting Earth to an integrated human/robot society on the model of the Outer Worlds.

To search for the killer in the City’s vast caves of steel, Elijah is assigned a Spacer partner named R. Daneel. That’s Robot Daneel. And notwithstanding the celebrated Three Laws of Robotics, which should make such a murder impossible, R. Daneel is soon Elijah’s prime suspect.

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‘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’
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‘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’
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Detective Elijah Baley investigates the murder of an offworlder in Spacetown. In the opinion of the Spacers, the murder is tied up with recent attempts to sabotage the Spacer – sponsored project of converting Earth to an integrated human/robot society on the model of the Outer Worlds.

To search for a killer in the City's vast caves of steel, Elijah is assigned a Spacer partner named R.Daneel. That's Robot Daneel. And notwithstanding the celebrated Three Laws of Robotics, which should make such a murder impossible, R.Daneel is soon Elijah's prime suspect ...

This is the first of Isaac Asimov's robot novels.

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

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