The Caves of Steel

Asimov, Isaac

ISBN 10: 0345313895 / ISBN 13: 9780345313898

Published by Del Rey, 1983

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Sprache: English Taschenbuch ,

Seller Inventory # 202098

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Caves of Steel
• Publisher: Del Rey
• Publication Date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0345313895
• ISBN 13: 9780345313898
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: gut
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science Fiction

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Synopsis

It was bad enough when Lije Baley, a simple plainclothes cop, was ordered to solve a totally baffling mystery, the murder of a prominent Spacer. It was worse when he found that the smug, self-satisfied Spacers were behind the pressure to provide an impossibly quick solution.
But then Lije discovered the worse of all bad news. The Spacers, distrusting all Earthmen, insisted he must work with an investigator of their choice. That investigator turned out to be R. Daneel Olivaw. R stood for "robot" & Lije hated & feared robots deeply, bitterly & pathologically.

From the Publisher

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. Like most people left behind on an over-populated Earth, New York City police detective Elijah Baley had little love for either the arrogant Spacers or their robotic companions. But when a prominent Spacer is murdered under mysterious circumstances, Baley is ordered to the Outer Worlds to help track down the killer. The relationship between Life and his Spacer superiors, who distrusted all Earthmen, was strained from the start. Then he learned that they had assigned him a partner: R. Daneel Olivaw. Worst of all was that the "R" stood for robot--and his positronic partner was made in the image and likeness of the murder victim!