In The Caves of Steel and its sequels (the first of which is The Naked Sun), Asimov paints a grim situation of an Earth dealing with an extremely large population, and of luxury-seeking Spacers, who limit birth to permit great Meanwhile, Earth is overpopulated (with a total population of eight billion, three times that of Asimov's 1950s) and strict rules against robots have been passed. Of one hundred million each), and use robot labor heavily. The Spacer worlds are rich, have low population density (average population Travel has been discovered, and a few worlds relatively close to Earth have been colonized – fifty planets known as the "Spacer worlds". They live roughly three millennia in Earth's future, a time when hyperspace Daneel Olivaw, later his favorite protagonists. In this novel, Isaac Asimov introduces Elijah Baley and R.
The book was first published as a serial in Galaxy magazine, from October to December 1953.
It is a detective story and illustratesĪn idea Asimov advocated, that science fiction can be applied to any literary genre, rather than just being a limited genre in itself. The Caves of Steel is a science fiction novel by American writer Isaac Asimov.
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