The Caves Of Steel

Earth is overpopulated a thousand years from now. Planets outside of our solar system have been colonized and development of robots through the âpositronic brain.â In this new society, only some of humans live in New York City including Detective Elijah Baley, who is not a big fan of the robot. However, heâs teamed up with a robot to solve a murder case far from planet Earth. The robot sidekick is bad enough until Baley learns that the robot is an exact replica of the murder victim. Asimov does mystery and science fiction well, and this is the first book in his Robot series, which is well-loved and critically acclaimed. Why It Made the List Asimov is a master of the genre. Heâs been republished and collected and filmed more than most of the authors on this list combined. Heâs garnered multiple awards and been nominated more times than most of us can count. Heâs one of the giants of the genre, and when he wasnât prolifically writing science fiction, he wrote mysteries including the well-known Black Widower stories. Read It If You LikeNew York City mysteries, police procedurals, robots