The Caves of Steel (Robot series)
Registered by WistfulDragon of Streatham, Greater London United Kingdom on 2/20/2005
This book is in a Controlled Release!
4 journalers for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by WistfulDragon from Streatham, Greater London United Kingdom on Sunday, February 20, 2005
"A Spaceman - a specialist in robotics - has been murdered. Lije Baley, a plainclothesman of his time, combs the vast caves of steel in a tense hunt for a lone fanatic, for a murderer and for the solution to an almost perfect crime that could set an entire galaxy ablaze."
Journal Entry 2 by squirk from Lambeth, Greater London United Kingdom on Wednesday, February 23, 2005
I couldn't resist - picked up at the lunchtime mini-meet and added to the huge TBR pile.
This book accompanied me on a train journey to Inverness from London, and back, as it took me a while to get into the reading of it. The descriptions of the cities are quite claustrophobic and, trapped in a too-hot train with no open windows, I was firmly on the side of the Spacers who live in the open air and not at all on the side of Lije and the city-dwellers who live all their lives in conditioned air. When Lije feels wind and sunlight for the first time, you get a sense of how much city life is controlled. I also enjoyed the appearance of video conferencing – quite alien in Asimov's time, but so everyday to us now. Thanks, WistfulDragon for the read – it only took me nigh on 7 years!
Journal Entry 4 by squirk at -- Controlled Release, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- United Kingdom on Wednesday, January 12, 2022
Released 2 yrs ago (1/12/2022 UTC) at -- Controlled Release, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- United Kingdom
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Happy Reading!
Happy Reading!
It's here!! Thank you Squirk. :-)
This was interesting as it is really a crime fiction novel that happens to be set in a future with robots and where space has been colonised. Like squirk I found it fun reading about the advances in technology that are now quite everyday, those that have been superseded and those that are only just starting to happen. I too found the idea of living in a hermetically sealed box awful. Imagine never feeling a cool breeze! Thanks for sharing this one squirk, I enjoyed it.
And off it goes to earthcaroleanne for the office book swap shelf.
Thank you so much for sending this for my book swap shelf. I am pleased to report that although you state the cover bears no resemblance to the story, I will not read it and put it straight on the shelf.