The/Robots and Empire Robots of Dawn (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Isaac Asimov
- First Published: 1983
- Type of Work: Novels
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—artificial intelligence
- Time of Work: 4724 and 4922
- Setting: Aurora, Solaria, Baleyworld, and Earth
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: Colonies or colonization, Future, Other worlds, Earth, Robots or robotics, Artificial intelligence
- Locales: Earth, Fictional planets
The Plot
Because of his earlier success in solving two murders involving Spacers (descendants of early Earthpeople who have colonized fifty other planets), the Earth police detective Elijah Baley is sent to the planet Aurora to solve the “murder” of a humanform robot. He goes to the city of Eos, where he works to free a robotist named Dr. Fastolfe, the most likely suspect, in The Robots of Dawn. Fastolfe is an acquaintance from Baley’s first case involving Spacers, described in the novel The Caves of Steel (1954). Baley also is reunited with Gladia Delmarre,...
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