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The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)
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I LOVE Asimov's robot stories!
Here, we start out on Earth, overpopulated and so far in the future, it's positively alien (they hardly understand rain and only know about windows through history books or historical novels).
A New York City cop, Elijah Baley, is tasked with solving a murder mystery. But he has to discover that not only is he distrusted (Earthers and Spacers have no love for one another), but politics result in him being partnered with a Spacer called R. Daneel Olivaw, which means that his "partner" is a robot! To make matters worse (or even funnier for us readers), the robot was built to look like the murder victim. *snickers*
There was a slight noir feel to this story. From the rainy day when this short novel started (further giving this feeling of everything being downtrodden), to the actual murder mystery (not just the WHO dunnit but also the how, and afterwards the why).
And all that was cleverly interwoven with some awesome predictions for the future of mankind - technologically as well as culturally.
I was once again gripped by the story and my surroundings (just like I'm used to from this author) and thus found myself puzzling/investigating along with Baley and Olivaw.
From the history between Earth and its galactic colonies that have now surpassed their home planet's evolutionary stage and the resulting animosities (Earth being poorer, jobs being given to robots instead of humans, mobs forming, the threat of indemnity ships etc), to the marvel that is Asimov's positronic brain - the world the author created here was well and truly awesome!
Here, we start out on Earth, overpopulated and so far in the future, it's positively alien (they hardly understand rain and only know about windows through history books or historical novels).
A New York City cop, Elijah Baley, is tasked with solving a murder mystery. But he has to discover that not only is he distrusted (Earthers and Spacers have no love for one another), but politics result in him being partnered with a Spacer called R. Daneel Olivaw, which means that his "partner" is a robot! To make matters worse (or even funnier for us readers), the robot was built to look like the murder victim. *snickers*
There was a slight noir feel to this story. From the rainy day when this short novel started (further giving this feeling of everything being downtrodden), to the actual murder mystery (not just the WHO dunnit but also the how, and afterwards the why).
And all that was cleverly interwoven with some awesome predictions for the future of mankind - technologically as well as culturally.
I was once again gripped by the story and my surroundings (just like I'm used to from this author) and thus found myself puzzling/investigating along with Baley and Olivaw.
From the history between Earth and its galactic colonies that have now surpassed their home planet's evolutionary stage and the resulting animosities (Earth being poorer, jobs being given to robots instead of humans, mobs forming, the threat of indemnity ships etc), to the marvel that is Asimov's positronic brain - the world the author created here was well and truly awesome!
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“Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance.”
― The Caves of Steel
― The Caves of Steel
“But now, Earthmen are all so coddled, so enwombed in their imprisoning caves of steel, that they are caught forever.”
― The Caves of Steel
― The Caves of Steel
“The division between human and robot is perhaps not as significant as that between intelligence and nonintelligence.”
― The Caves of Steel
― The Caves of Steel
“people sometimes mistake their own shortcomings for those of society and want to fix the Cities because they don’t know how to fix themselves.”
― The Caves of Steel
― The Caves of Steel
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February 23, 2021
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February 24, 2021
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Feb 25, 2021 12:47PM
I really enjoyed this book.
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It was pretty cool, yes.
One of my favourite series of books, glad you enjoyed Trish.
:)I always adored Asimov.
Does this have anything to do with I Robot? Same series? I need to read this one too *sigh*
I just recommend this to Sud the other day lol
*l* It's bad enough there's all this new stuff I have to read, but I keep finding more classic stuff to read as well.
Yep, same problem here. Asimov wrote LOTS of robot stories. I, Robot is one collection. The Complete Robot is another (and not actually complete). There is also Robot Dreams and Robot Visions (other short story collections). Then there are the four or five novels (the first two are actually novelettes). This one as well as the next three have the same robot in them so they kinda belong together. And then this ties back into the Foundation cycle which is quite clever but also means more books on one's TBR. *lol*
Bwahahahahaha! "Welcome to the big league, kid!"
*lol* Apart from the overweight, that cat is really cool.
I'm not overweight. Just chubby. It's a civilian thing.
Me..pre-2008Me- Now.
Sud666 wrote: "I'm not overweight. Just chubby. It's a civilian thing."I was talking about the actual cat - and you know it.
Sud666 wrote: "Me..pre-2008Me- Now.
..."
As if I'd ever believe that. You must think me really stupid.
Trish wrote: "Sud666 wrote: "Me..pre-2008Me- Now.
..."
*sniffles* Are you worried I won't share my fries? You can have some..i got a X-tra large. I also can't zip up my pants and just wear a cord.
Trish wrote: "🤢"I like fries :)
Oh my good, you need to put a trigger warning before posting such adorable pics! :D
No cheesecake for you.
Nice review. Just finished Caves of Steel. The way he connected all the clues in the end was really smooth. Couldn't really guess anything till the last chapter since the robot cleared our suspicions in the beginning!
While it wasn't that surprising to me (I figured it out earlier), I agree that the author is always doing a smooth job. :)
Trish wrote: "No cheesecake for you."
It's your own fault.
Trish wrote: "It's your own fault."
