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This is the sequel to the "Caves of Steel", bringing back the team of Elijah Bailey and R. Daneel Oliver. They have to investigate a murder on the planet Solaria, a spacer world which has very few people but hundreds of thousands of robots. Each spacer lives on isolated estates, surrounded by robot guards. They can "view" each other on TV, but physical contact has become taboo. (In fact, physical contact for sex is viewed as unpleasant and only done to do the necessary duty.). Everyone suspects the wife of the murdered scientist, Gladia, who was on the scene when her husband died. Bailey does a little digging and finds out that a scientist named Leebig was really behind the murder (with a name like that, he has to be guilty, right?), and to boot he had this grandiose plan to use robots to conquer the galaxy. Unfortunately, this book has one great big hole in it: Gladia, though manipulated, is in fact guilty of the crime she's accused of, murdering her husband! Yet she's free to go. There's never any real explanation why. Best scene: when Bailey gets Daneel to reveal himself as a robot to other robots, and orders other robots to restrain him--a battle of the robots! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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