The Caves of Steel (The Robot Series) by Isaac Asimov
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(Mass Market Paperback - Reprint)
- Pub. Date: November 1991
- 288pp
- Sales Rank: 19,937
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- Series: Robots Series, #1
- ISBN-13: 9780553293401
- ISBN: 0553293400
- Edition Description: Reprint
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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.
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Gr 6 Up- Isaac Asimov's mid-20th century tale artfully combines science fiction and detection. William Dufris performs it in multiple voices and with just enough camp to pull in contemporary listeners by playing to the ironies of the period in which the story was written. A human police detective, Baley, lives in New York City a thousand years hence. He's tapped to help solve a murder in a community where robots are not reviled and ends up with a partner, Daneel, who is a highly sophisticated, humanoid machine. Baley and Daneel don't have an easy time with each other or with those New Yorkers, called Medievalists, who despise robots. The action moves swiftly, yet there is time for Asimov to weave in some engaging and edifying glosses on the Bible as literature-and for Baley to smoke, making this as an adult book of the period. While most of Dufris's voices are successful, his interpretation of Baley's 16-year-old son reduces the latter to sounding like a whiney 8-year-old. Asimov's story is a great way to introduce young readers to a polymath who captured the "American century" through futurism and literate character development.-Francisca Goldsmith, Halifax Public Libraries, Canada
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The godfather of science fiction, Isaac Asimov is the genre’s undisputed master and one of the most prolific authors of all time. From his famous Foundation trilogy to his later stories, Asimov took fiction to new, strange, and often wondrous places.
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old favoriteby Anonymous
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January 29, 2008: I was a huge Asimov fan growing up and still find the books entertaining 20 years later. a lot of the novel is kind of clunky and hokey, but on the other find I find many of the ideas still very compelling. Is there something in humankind that would be resistant to getting robot assistance, even if that meant making their lives more difficult? Still a fascinating look at possible future psychology, and how the human race is in danger of undergoing a type of speciation if groups are too separate. It is also entertaining how Asimov puts so many diverse threads into one book- detective thriller, speculative future, history lesson, even a kind of love story. As an entree into the robot/galactic empire/foundation world of asimov, this book is indispensible, along with I Robot. It is fascinating how different this book is from the Foundation stories- Asimov may not have been a stylist on the level of a Ray Bradbury or Theodore Sturgeon, but he was certainly capable of a diverse array of writing styles.
one of the best books everby Anonymous
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March 22, 2007: I haven't read this in years but I needed to leave a review for one of my favorite books of all-time. This book got me into reading in general, not just sci-fi. Asimov was a master of his craft, and this book could easily appeal to those who would otherwise have no interest in sci-fi because it reads well as a mystery, too. I read this a decade ago and the world that is created within still stays with me. Highly recommended.
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