I say newish, as he's playing on an old story in his collection: I, Robot. The newish angle on the same old robot role. If you could sum up The Naked Sun in three words, what would they be? I realize there might be copyright issues since it was written much later, but it is an important work in the Robot/Galactic/Foundation story arch. I implore you to get the last book in the series, Robots and Empire. I find the entire series the foundation of science fiction and modern literature. These are books that define logic and complex story telling. Not sure I fully agree, I view them as not having alot of melodramatic emotion. A common criticism of him is that his characters are not very well developed. Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?Īsimov is not really that type of author. Finding humanity in the non-human goes beyond personification, its just brilliant. I think the clever wordplay is difficult to match in any other author. He imbues the characters with humanism and reason to weave a fascinating story that forms the basis for his Galactic Empire and Foundation Series.Īny scene with the the main character(s) and the humanoid(s). This is somewhat similar to but very different from other stories in the genre.

Asimov changed our perceptions are the man-machine relationship from Frankenstein to a story about the complexities of life and it works great.įundamentally Asimov uses the basis of Kant's logic and weaves it into a detective story. It helps to form the foundation of many of the literary conceits common today. If you are a fan of modern sci-fi, you owe it to yourself to return to this classic series. This series was taken off Audible for a few months to correct some audio errors. Where does The Naked Sun rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far? 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! Yet someone had gotten close enough to bludgeon him to death while robots looked on. The victim had been so reclusive that he appeared to his associates only through holographic projection. Daneel Olivaw, to solve an incredible murder that has rocked Solaria to its foundations. To this strange and provocative planet comes Detective Elijah Baley, sent from the streets of New York with his positronic partner, the robot R. 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. 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.

The Naked Sun by Isaac Asimov