As Cavernas de Aco

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Published Oct. 25, 2019 by Editora Aleph.

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978-85-7657-453-8
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"A Del Rey book."

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 worst of all bad news. The Spacers, distrusting all Earthmen, insisted he must work with an investigator of their choice. And that investigator turned out to be R. Daneel Olivaw. R stood for robot--and Lije hated and feared robots deeply, bitterly and pathologically.

Issac Asimov's The Naked Sun and The Caves of Steel are two of the most famous science-fiction novels ever. They are set long after mankind - aided by the positronic robot - has colonized the worlds of other suns. This is a time of growing concern between Earthmen and Spacers. Lije …

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Different to what I thought it would be

I should have anticipated this really, given that this was a novel set in Asimov's Robot universe; it's more of a murder mystery (with robots) rather than a Robot story. That being said, it still plays with themes of ballooning populations, limited resources, fear of superior technology that could replace you, and interplanetary civilisation; which are all very Asimovian themes, and definitely make me keen to see where he takes this series in the next book. So I guess I'll need to get that next book now.

Mi reseña de Bóvedas de acero

No es ni mucho menos lo mejor de Asimov, pero es un libro digno y entretenido. Una novela policíaca con un punto de ciencia ficción suave que se lee rapido y cumple su función de hacer pasar el rato. Esta escrita en los años 50 y se nota. Un par de ejemplos: la película fotográfica y la casi ausencia de mujeres en la trama. Asimov, no logró imaginar entonces la foto digital y me resulta gracioso ver como, en un momento dado, habla de película; como si se fuera a seguir usando dentro de tanto tiempo, aparte de los posibles aficionados nostálgicos. Por otro lado, la casi única mujer que aparece, un personaje completamente secundario, cumple los típicos tópicos femeninos de mediados del siglo XX. Es curioso ver como imagina el autor la sociedad del futuro y como, al describirla, me ha hecho pensar en comportamientos comunistas que no me …

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