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.
