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Title: Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov ISBN: 0-553-29340-0 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 November, 1991 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.62 (61 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Superb sci-fi murder mystery.
Comment: Asimov, one of the greatest science fiction writers of all time, shows a world of the future filled with political and technological conflicts between earthlings and the Spacers - people from outside planets.
This book works in two ways. It gives an excellent picture of the future, while also presenting a great murder mystery. From pedestrian highways, planet colonies, robot-human conflict, to over-population, the future is presented in a way that relates to modern society and modern problems. This gives the reader a greater understanding of the setting compared to most other books.
The mystery itself is also very intriguing. Who killed the Spacer? Would the human looking robot be accepted by his partner? What were the political ramifications of this murder? All these problems become apparent throughout this book, and makes the book even more interesting as you read along.
I highly recommend this book, as it is one Asimov's finest.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Great Story on Several Levels
Comment: Caves of Steel is one of Asimov's best books (well, truthfully the same can be said of every Asimov book I've read). As Asimov does so well, the book is written on multiple levels and they are all interesting and engaging.
At first glance, we have Elijah Bailey, the earther, a New Yorker of the future who lives in the vast underground city. Bailey is a cop put on the case of a murdered Spacer (those humans who have settled other planets). Bailey is teamed with another investigator R. Daneel Olivaw who we find out later, is a robot.
More than just your basic whodunit, this book deals with larger issues of the differences between people that keep them in fear and mistrust of each other. The Spacers who have embraced the outside world, who have embraced technology and robotics live in fear of the humans who stayed on earth. Those humans who live in extremely close contact with each other in teeming underground cities as they've all developed a fear of the open sky. The earthers loathe the Spacers for their superiority complex and the Spacers fear contamination from the earthers.
Bailey must overcome these inbred fears and bigotries when he must travel off planet with his partner, a robot, to deal with and solve a murder of a Spacer. Olivaw (who is a recurring character in many Asimov books) sort of becomes Bailey's moral compass and our guide through the physical and emotional journey Bailey takes.
The book is a quick read and it's good old sci fi at its best. I recommend also reading "The Naked Sun" and "The Robots of Dawn" which also feature Bailey and Olivaw.
Rating: 4
Summary: Robots Rule
Comment: This was a delightful book and it, along with The Naked Sun, are good reads today, and splendid examples of the beginning of modern science fiction. Asimov is good--the story will ring as true today as it did decades ago when it was written. I bought them not long ago, having read that they were his first Robot novels, and I loved them.
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Title: The Naked Sun by Isaac Asimov ISBN: 0553293397 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 November, 1991 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Robots of Dawn by Isaac Asimov ISBN: 0553299492 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 March, 1994 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: I, Robot by ISAAC ASIMOV ISBN: 0553294385 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 November, 1991 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Robots and Empire by Isaac Asimov ISBN: 0586062009 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 1986 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Foundation and Empire by ISAAC ASIMOV ISBN: 0553293370 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 October, 1991 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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