![]() So when I was book hunting yesterday and chanced across a copy of “The Naked Sun” (1955), I decided to take it with me and see if it still held up. Some works, however, always stood out in my memory and Isaac Asimov‘s “Robot series” was one of them. I think that by that time I had overdosed on sci-fi, to the point that their plots and tropes became overly familiar and predictable. In high school I must have devoured hundreds of them, only to drop them when I went to university and I started reading “Literature”. I have always had a soft spot for sci-fi novels. ![]() People on Solaria, who are used to wide open spaces, cannot tolerate the physical presence of another human being, and communicate remotely by “trimension,” wear covering over their bodies when contact is unavoidable, and even procreate by laboratory fertilization.Ī black mirror episode coming soon. This world is the exact opposite of Earth in which all humans have a fear of being alone and in wide open places. 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.Įlijah Baley, the detective from The Caves of Steel, is given a new assignment to investigate the murder of a Spacer (long-lived humans that colonize space), Demarre, on a distant world called Solaria. ![]() 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. ![]()
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