The other faction wants to let Earth men use their short lives doing this. It's extremely political, as one faction of the planet wants to use humaniform robots to branch out to the stars and pioneer planets to make way for Spacers to follow and settle. Humaniform robots are extremely human-like and can only be created by the Master Roboticist Dr Fastolfe, who will share his invention with nobody. ELIJAH Baley is a detective sent once again to a Spacer planet to solve the mystery of who 'roboticided' the second humaniform robot on the planet Aurora. Humans can barely stand to see the outside sky: it gives them agoraphobia. This is the last in the series that begins with'I, Robot.' It's a sci-fi mystery, and Asimov keeps the reader guessing till the very end on whodunnit.Įarth's population stands now at 8 billion people (lol-or should I sob out loud), and people are packed into underground cave-cities. Well worth reading if you enjoyed the first two novels.

There’s an interesting section in his wikipedia article about his problems interacting with women.

The sexual revolution has also happened and Asimov can now go on about sex to his heart’s content. Basically, in the years intervening since the last novel, the civil rights movement has happened and Asimov is slyly commenting on its success. Now here are on Aurora and the culture is definitely still master/slave, but the masters are kidding themselves about how far they’ve come and will investigate a ‘roboticide’, but only when it’s politically expedient. I couldn’t help noticing that C came first. If you remember, Aurora was describes in The Caves of Steel as having an ‘integrated’ robot culture: C/Fe. Asimov picks up the slavery theme from the first two novels.

However, despite this slight bagginess these is much to enjoy. The themes are not brought out as crisply either. There are even a couple that could be excised completely. The conversations are not as tight as they were in the first two novels. Unrestrained by paper costs, Asimov has written to twice the length. The dénouement is particularly well done. But not this time! This is actually pretty good. It’s the old story: boy meets girl, boy loses girl, author returns to a series twenty-five years later and completely screws it up.

The robots of dawn by isaac asimov