Plainclothesman Elijah Baley is called to Washington, where he’s told he’s being reassigned, reassigned to a murder investigation on a Spacer world known as Solaria.

The Spacers have asked for Elijah because Solaria, having no crime ever and therefore no police force, have no idea how to go about investigating a murder.

As he arrives on Solaria he is informed that his partner will be waiting for him, which turns out to be R. Daneel Olivaw.   And so our dynamic duo are thrown once again into searching for clues to solve the mystery.

Once again, there’s two really good aspects to this story, one being the murder investigation and the other being our exploration of Solarian society.

I have to admit, that being a devoted introvert i much prefer this society to the one in The Caves of Steel.   I think i could quite enjoy living on my own massive chunk of planet with countless robots to fulfil my every need.

Another page turner that just seemed to fly by.

Next up is Mirror Image.

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We pick up many years after our last story.   The Spacers have forced an embassy on Earth, Spacetown, and an uneasy truce is in place until, one morning, someone murders a Spacer Ambassador.

And so one of New York’s finest, Plainclothesman Elijah Baley, is assigned to the case.   And then he finds out that his partner will be a Spacer Robot, R. Daneel Olivaw.

As the assignment progresses we are introduced to a dystopian New York of the future, which is just one of countless mega cities around the planet.

So there’s two really good things about this story, one is the dystopian future city life that we get to learn about and explore with our protagonists, and then there’s the assignment itself and the race against time to hand over the murderer to the all powerful Spacers.

Super enjoyable, a real page turner.

Next up is The Naked Sun.

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It’s in the collection, The Early Asimov.   Don’t spend a lot of money on it because you should be able to find a copy of this novella on it’s own around the internet somewhere.

After all the robot stories, we skip forward many years until humans have colonised lots of far flung systems.

Earth is overcrowded and under resourced so many people are wanting to go to the new frontiers, but the frontier has banned all immigration and won’t accept any more people from Earth.

But someone on Earth has a plan, the “Pacific Project”.

Another good story.

Next up is The Caves of Steel

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