naked sun: Isaac Asimov

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This book belongs to sci-fi genre and it had triggered off my interest in Asimov's works. Reading this book will make you familiar with the vocabulary in the Foundation series. Spacers are descendants of earthmen who had migrated to planets outside the solar system like Aurora and Solaria. In solaria people lived isolated from each other. The population was kept a constant. Each solarian had a large farm and each farm had a large no of robots. Solarians hated seeing each other. They despised personal closeness. They were trained from birth in nurseries to behave like that. They would never know who their parents were. They considered earthmen inferior. Earthmen lived underground, in constant fear of attack from spacers.

Elijah Bailey, an earthman and a detective of C6 class was invited to solaria for the investigation of a murder case. R. Daneel Olivaw, a robot from aurora who had been with him on another investigation in Earth was assigned to work with him. Under secretary Albert Minnim wanted Bailey to observe everything around him and inform the sociologists about the conditions there so that they can figure out the spacer’s weaknesses and devise mechanisms for defense in case the spacers decide to attack earth. Daneel was known as a robot only to Elijah. He looked so much like a human being that he would pass on as a real auroran before the solarians.

Engrossing power is at its zenith in this book. This is a tail of how an earth man outwitted the sophisticated solarians.

The 3 laws of Robotics
1)A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2)A robot must obey any orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3)A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
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