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The Naked Sun

The Naked Sun | Isaac Asimov

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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. On the beautiful Outer World planet of Solaria, a handful of human colonists lead a hermit-like existence, their every need attended to by their faithful robot servants. To this strange and provocative planet comes Detective Elijah Baley, sent from the streets of New York with his positronic partner, the robot R. Daneel Olivaw, to solve an incredible murder that has rocked Solaria to its foundations. The victim had been so reclusive that he appeared to his associates only through holographic projection. Yet someone had gotten close enough to bludgeon him to death while robots looked on. Now Baley and Olivaw are faced with two clear impossibilities: Either the Solarian was killed by one of his robots--unthinkable under the laws of Robotics--or he was killed by the woman who loved him so much that she never came into his presence!

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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️I am delighted I have finally picked these books up. The I,Robot series is an absolutely wonderful read! The murder mysteries are fun, hard boiled, good cop buddy dynamic. But the universe building which started small and is now growing bigger is so exciting to keep exploring.

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Another banger! This series does not disappoint.
The mystery was twistier than first anticipated, the personal growth of the main character was authentically balanced by his own ingrained biases. The exploration of an alternate future for mankind on an alien world was absorbing in theory if somewhat disturbing in practice. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? I was surprised by how much Daneel ended up being sidelined, but this novel is much more an exploration of how humans might choose to change as a society with the aid of robots than a story of the robots themselves. 3mo

Robotswithpersonality 3/? Insofar as, from a current perspective, The Caves of Steel tells of a future Earth crammed with people who live in supercities to manage resources, and under dome/underground ostensibly to protect from less hospitable elements, The Naked Sun tells of another somewhat dystopian future, where people act like they're permanently in pandemic lockdown, not because there is a physical threat, but because isolation as societal foundation has been 3mo

Robotswithpersonality 4/? judged a good and is programmed into the remote raising of future generations. Speaking of the remote raising, the Solarian perspective, its coldness even revulsion towards children alongside its primacy of genetic superiority, its championing of eugenics, lends their 'alien way of life' extra creepiness. (edited) 3mo

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Robotswithpersonality 5/? I love that a society so heavily dependent yet casually presumptive about the use of robots is singled out to demonstrate behaviour that feels robotic: avoiding human contact. As much as you get the easy parallel sense of the robotic nature of Solarians compared to more earthy humans from Earth, it makes for an even better contrast for Baley's final argument, the ultimate conclusion that Solarians and Earthmen both have a restrictive, 3mo

Robotswithpersonality 7/? traditional way of life that threatens long-term survival, that needs changing.

The plot contains something of an inversion of the previous exploration of the limitations of the three laws seen in I, Robot, it's not about what the robot might try to do when given an order by humans that involves a unique interpretation of the three laws, but more an affirmation of the First Law and what the robot will suffer if it inadvertently is involved 3mo

Robotswithpersonality 8/? in breaking it.

Is it ableist to give a robot a lisp and a limp after it suffers brain damage from accidently killing a human?
It definitely feels racist that Baley consistently calls the robots 'boy' while they are required to call him and all humans 'master'. Historically those are terms bound up in the enslavement and oppression of Black people. 3mo

Robotswithpersonality 9/? Baley may be coming to more enlightened conclusions about the future of humanity in each book but his prejudice against robots remains strong.
It's interesting to see it paralleled with his fear of open sky, not to belittle agoraphobia, but he's a part of a generation of humans who have learned to live and find comfort and shelter in close quarters, scrounging for better jobs and living conditions, and the robots act upon his subconscious 3mo

Robotswithpersonality 10/? in a similar manner, possible they might take his job, possible they might harm him physically. His fears are a result of his circumstances.
For all that,to the reader, there are aspects that feel like paradise, (more space, more greenery) Solaris has particular phobias developed by the way they choose to live as well: no contact and resulting revulsion for all things related to procreation or personal proximity and given the growth in 3mo

Robotswithpersonality 11/? isolation, perhaps a legitimate fear around foreign contagion. They are as likely to be as repulsed by their fellow man as Baley is by robots.
Again: societal conditioning developing ignorance that quite obviously needs to be rectified. 3mo

Robotswithpersonality 12/? Unsurprisingly the female characters got short shrift again: one is marked out for a displeasing physical appearance and flaw of flaws: lack of maternal instincts, another is somewhere between femme fatale and damsel in distress, gets an almost decent amount of time on page...to be objectified by the male lead. She is sensual to a degree that her society finds offensive, and makes her more sympathetic to the hetero detective. The bulk of her 3mo

Robotswithpersonality 13/? actions are emotional displays of one kind or another. 🙄

I will give partial credit for her role in the painting with light scene. The aesthetic worked for me, and its moment of vulnerability and introspection, for Baley, of course, about his own mental blocks. I loved the internal made external, his wish to see a different version of himself in self-portrait than he's yet to live up to galvanizing him to take action against a fear that 3mo

Robotswithpersonality 14/14 looms large.

Maybe there's hope for humanity after all.

⚠️child abuse, bigotry, racism 3mo

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#BookMoods #Sun

Book 2 of the excellent R. Daneel Olivaw Series by Isaac Asimov. Great example of science fiction meeting detective series, and a good twist on book 1 in the series. Written 66 years ago but still holds up really well.

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Eggs Great choice! 4y

Andrew65 @Eggs Can‘t beat Asimov. Enjoyed re-reading them over the last few years. 4y

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A classic hard sci-fi book. Police procedural and robots and other worlds. There is a reason Asimov was (and still is) the king of this type of fiction.
I do wish Bailey would have says Jehosaphat about 99% times less then he did. That word was funny the first 2 times the just ridiculous.
This was my December #doublebookspin playing with @TheAromaofBooks

Soubhiville 😻 your blue eyed beautiful baby! 5y

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! And I agree - sometimes an author gets a word in his head & can't seem to let it go! 5y

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2 quick weekend reads. Naked Sun is my #doublespin book spin read, and If I had two weeks is due back to the library tomorrow so getting going on them!

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Finished Book 2 of my re-Read of Asimov‘s Robot Series. A science fiction detective story on an alien world where robots do everything and massively outnumber the 20,000 humans. Can those robots also kill? This is an excellent read, as was book 1, and leaves the book on quite a philosophical point. Now I need to find a way to get hold of book 3 which was written 17 years later!

Leniverse I have only read one of the robot books, years ago, and I don‘t know which one. It was kind of a locked room mystery. A man has been murdered, and no one else were in the house except for robots and the victim‘s wife. But due to seriously faulty immune systems the spouses were actually living in different parts of the house, hermetically sealed off, and could have no physical contact. Crazy stuff. Any idea what title that would be? 7y

Andrew65 @Leniverse I think that‘s this one! 👍 7y

Leniverse Nice, yes I read the blurb now and that does sound like it. So that‘s book two, good to know! 😄 7y

rretzler I‘m a big fan of Asimov and this series! 7y

Andrew65 @rretzler I‘d agree but been many years since I read his books so rereading them. A man ahead of his time. 7y

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Started book 2 in the R. Daneel Olivaw Series. Great to be back with Asimov‘s Robot Detective! This covers 1956 in my #CenturyOfBooks Challenge.

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jmofo 👏🤖🖤 7y

Andrew65 @jmofo Rediscovering Isaac Asimov. Spent a lot of my teenage years reading these. My favourite science fiction author. 7y

EadieB @Andrew65 the book I own is I Robot. Did you read that one? 7y

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Andrew65 @EadieB Many many years ago, but will eventually getting to the Robot 🤖 Series too. 7y

EadieB @Andrew65 On Fictfact I Robot is listed as a novella #0.1 I also own a couple of the Foundation books. 7y

Andrew65 @EadieB Fantastic Fiction doesn‘t show it in the Foundation series but one of a few books compromising collections of short stories. 7y

EadieB @Andrew65 it is under The Robot series but listed the way they usually list novellas. I think I confused you because I added that I also have some Foundation books from the Foundation series. 7y

Andrew65 @EadieB I think I Robot are the published stories he first sold to magazines before he was a published author. 7y

EadieB @Andrew65 oh ok because there are 6 novellas listed. 7y

Andrew65 @EadieB I think most of them are collections of his short stories. 7y

EadieB @Andrew65 Right! Did you ever read Foundation series? 7y

Andrew65 @EadieB Yes but more years ago than I care to remember so can‘t remember if I read them all. Remember enjoying a lot what I did Read. 7y

EadieB @Andrew65 ok I‘ll have check them out. 7y

jmofo @Andrew65 I have only read the first two and only in the last few years. I want to revisit the second one again, I have a terrible memory and can‘t recall how the second one resolved. Enjoy! 7y

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A good sci-fi crime story, but the cover is getting weirder every time I look at it 😂

charl08 Subtitle "I'll show you mine..." ?! 8y

becausetrains I need to get to sleep, because I thought that was Vladimir Putin at first glance 😱 8y

2BR02B Uh. What's dude on the right doing with his hand? 8y

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#WTForecast @Books_Wine_Repeat I'm thinking hot for a good long while.

PurpleyPumpkin Wow, that is hot!😳 9y

saguarosally @PurpleyPumpkin Tuesday is supposed to be 121. 👿🔥 9y

PurpleyPumpkin That is just crazy!! We've had a few warm days in Southern Ontario, but I'm still waiting for summer. The closest we've gotten is about 85 degrees. 9y

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Books_Wine_Repeat This is just the beginning! 9y

Leelee.reads This seems too hot to be healthy for anyone. 😱🔥 9y

Reviewsbylola My kids feel the same way. 9y

saguarosally @PurpleyPumpkin Winters are great here. 9y

saguarosally @Books_Wine_Repeat Seriously. I should go to Vegas to cool off. 🔥🔥🔥 9y

saguarosally @Leelee.reads Makes for some great travel deals though! 9y

saguarosally @Reviewsbylola I live alone. A/C is expensive. Clothes? Bah. 9y

Books_Wine_Repeat @saguarosally Ha! Our ac is working overtime. My oldest is crying about going outside. Maybe next month. 😜 9y

Dragon I can't believe it's hotter than 107 degrees! ☀️ 9y

TheNextBook Where the hell do you live?! 9y

saguarosally @Dragon It's only going to get worse before it gets better. 9y

saguarosally @TheNextBook Hell, also known as Phoenix. 9y

DocBrown 25 years of Hell was enough for me! I survived 122° on June 26, 1990 ? 9y

elliemcc11 Ok, that's hot! ☀️ 9y

saguarosally @mdhughes72 I didn't. Only been in the Valley 20 years. But there may be another 122. 9y

saguarosally @elliemcc11 Nah not yet. 😜 9y

elliemcc11 We honeymooned in US and visit Death Valley and Nevada on our trip. It was scorchio! I couldn't live in that heat! - we moan here when it hits 27 degrees/ 80 degrees. We don't have a/c at home so all the Windows are open, desperately trying to cool down this eve 🤣🇬🇧 9y

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A friend of mine recommended me this book by Asimov after talking about Bill Gates proposal to tax robots use as we tax labor. And then I read this article... and I think it is all linked and it is a tragedy and a comedy. And I love people, human beings recommending books. And this is why I am here every now and then.

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Die nackte Sonne: Roman | Isaac Asimov

Baley wurde unruhig. Man zweifelte nicht an Soziologen und ihren Computern. (S.18)
😂 Auch für solche Sätze liebe ich Asimov ^.^

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Da hab ich mir ja noch was vorgenommen... 📚😊

Papiergefluester Viel Erfolg! 9y

luanacasado @Papiergefluester Danke 😀 9y

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"Without the interplay of human against human, the chief interest in life is gone; most of the intellectual values are gone; most of the reason for living is gone." -Elijah Baley