The Caves of Steel

Mass Market Paperback, 270 pages

English language

Published Aug. 7, 1991 by Bantam.

ISBN:
978-0-553-29340-1
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4 stars (4 reviews)

"A Del Rey book."

It was bad enough when Lije Baley, a simple plainclothes cop, was ordered to solve a totally baffling mystery - the murder of a prominent Spacer. It was worse when he found that the smug, self-satisfied Spacers were behind the pressure to provide an impossibly quick solution.

But then Lije discovered the worst of all bad news. The Spacers, distrusting all Earthmen, insisted he must work with an investigator of their choice. And that investigator turned out to be R. Daneel Olivaw. R stood for robot--and Lije hated and feared robots deeply, bitterly and pathologically.

Issac Asimov's The Naked Sun and The Caves of Steel are two of the most famous science-fiction novels ever. They are set long after mankind - aided by the positronic robot - has colonized the worlds of other suns. This is a time of growing concern between Earthmen and Spacers. Lije …

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Einigermaßen unterhaltsame Story, die aber mehr Krimi als Scifi ist

3 stars

Content warning Leichte Spoiler zum Weltenbau

reviewed Bóvedas de Acero by Isaac Asimov (Robot, #1)

Un final "eureka!"

4 stars

La trama me ha gustado, me gusta el ambiente que imaginó el autor para la tierra en un futuro, me parece creíble.

Pero el final a contrarreloj, sin hacerte sospechar, sin ir hilando los acontecimientos, tipo "eureka!", no me convence mucho.

Eso sí, siguen ahí las maravillosas cuestiones filosóficas que plantea Asimov con cada robot que aparece en sus obras.

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