Acquire Today The Caves Of Steel (Robot, #1) Compiled And Edited By Isaac Asimov Available Through Ebook
libros que aguantan bien una relectura y otros que no tanto, En el caso de Asimov, da igual las veces que me lea Fundación que me sigue alucinando desde la primera página.
Sin embargo, con Bóvedas de acero, escrita unos años después, me ha parecido una historia con mucho peor ritmo en la que lo primero que hace es poner a un protagonista inocente y "empanao" que va preguntando todo para dar pie a que Asimov meta páginas de información que ayuden al prota/lector a entender el contexto en el que está la Tierra y los Mundos Exteriores.
Mucha info con párrafos muy largos que hace la lectura en muchas ocasiones bastante lenta,
Sin embargo, la trama central del asesinato me ha parecido muy bien resuelta y además al final de cada capítulo mete siempre un "giro dramático de los acontecimientos", como diría Fermin Trujillo, que hace que sigas leyendo el siguiente capítulo para ver qué pasa.
En definitiva, un sabor agridulce por no encontrar al mejor Asimov, pero una historia interesante de la necesidad de la Humanidad de abandonar la Tierra.
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Come for the Retro SciFi, Pull up a seat and stay a while for a fun murder mystery and some predictive philosophising on the future of humanity.
”Ladies and germs, this is so random and bizarre! Im joined today by none other than the lead singer of The Strokes, Julian Casablancas.
Jules, baby, you just finished the book recently yourself, right”
Last Niiiiiiiiite!
Yeah, thats what I thought.
Whatd you think
Is this it
Yeah, thats the one, Caves of Steel.
Is this iiiiit
Umm, yeah, I just sai, . .
Is this, IT
Mate, why are you fuc
I could take it, or leave it, or take it, or leave it!
Wow, really Thats a little harsh, no I thought it was a fairly entertaining Murder Mystery with a scarily believable distant future SciFi setting and some interesting Philosophical musings that beg relevant questions of our presentday selves.
I mean, in justpages, Asimov gives us what is, in its own right, a decent investigative thriller set in New York,years in the future, imbued with welltrodden but always compelling topics such as the unsustainability of an everincreasing population and its correlation with life expectancy, interplanetary colonisation, genetic selection/designer children, the selfsufficiency or lack thereof
of cities, AIs role in the future of humanity and problems pertaining to inevitably differing levels of acceptance, culturally ingrained prejudices and the age old dilemmas on the morality of sacrificing one for the good of many/the end justifying the means etc.
Yeah, I read the book,
Of course, Sorry about that! Any other thoughts
New York City Cops!
Yeah
New York City Cops!
What of em
New York City Cops!
Jehoshaphat, man! Spit it ou
They aint too smaaaart!
Oh, Julian, have mercy my friend, youre such a loose cannon! Clearly, youre referring to Elijah Bailey, a New York City Police Officer and the protagonist of the story! Well, I agree! I dont remember a whole lot about him from the short story Mirror Image in The Complete Robot but I certainly dont remember him being so dull and/or dimwitted.
Aside from being completely vanilla, cardboard, beige, or whatever other word best describes an entirely basic and mundane individual, he also seemed like an absolute simpleton forof the book, rarely living up to his reputation as a sharpminded detective with incredible attention to detail.
For the most part he just asked stupid questions and made completely bizarre and unjustified allegations based on illinformed conclusions.
He proves himself not entirely clueless in the end but really, the majority of his investigative predictions are wildly off the mark.
Anyway, thanks for joining me and offering some incredible insights, Jules!
I don't care no more,
I know this for sure,
I'm walking out that door!
Hmm, suit yourself, pal! mutterswhat a prick! In the future you will walk down the crowded streets of New York City not knowing if the bodies brushing past you are humans or androids.
With tensions already mounting between humans and robots, the murder of a Spacer must be handled in a politicallycorrect fashion so Detective Elijah Baley is assigned a robot partner.
Baley and R, Daneel Olivaw become like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle s Sherlock Holmes and Dr, Watson, Law amp Order s Detectives Lennie Brisco and Ed Green, and Training Day s Detective Alonzo Harris and Officer Jake Hoyt disparate partners who must work together to solve a crime.
The only problem is, Baley doesn t trust anyone not his boss, not his wife, and certainly not his robot partner.
Metropoli immense, di cemento e acciaio, claustrofobiche, coperte da cupole che non permettono la visione del cielo vero, ora anch'esso simulato, loculi per dormire, cittadini divisi in gradi.
Paura degli spazi aperti.
Sembrerebbe un romanzo distopico ma non lo è, In effetti si tratta di un puro investigativo in cui un agente umano viene affiancato ad un agente robot per indagare su un omicidio che potrebbe scatenare ripercussioni gravi tra la Terra e la popolazione che da secoli è emigrata nello spazio.
Umani simili a robot e robot simili agli umani, è su questo tema che Asimov crea il suo racconto.
Scrittura scorrevole e la solita capacità di lasciare il lettore a riflettere al termine del romanzo pone Asimov tra le mie letture preferite.
Me ha gustado, a medias, la primera parte no me estaba gustando, no veía apenas investigación, de mitad para el final la cosa va mejorando y el final es correcto.
Esperaba algo más
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, Un libro de género híbrido que provenga de dos o mas géneros literarios diferentes, PopsugarAttempt. I wrote a very eloquent long review and then lost it :P It's happened to all of us!
Lots of food for thought in this relatively short story.
I tried to read sitelinkFoundation a while ago and couldn't get into it, I found it dense and difficult to read and put it down after the first chapter, so I was a bit nervous that I'd encounter the same style in sitelinkThe Caves of Steel.
I was very pleasantly surprised to find this very easy reading and full of insightful deep ideas to boot! Needless to say I highly recommend this one.
The world building was great, The setting is a future version of Earth in which there are too many people and not enough resources.
The society that results is rather an interesting mix of ideas, being socialist in the sense of group housing and food, but capitalist in the sense of extra perks for those with better ranking jobs if you've worked hard and done well.
I'm not sure what to call the resulting society but it makes for an interesting model,
The questions of A, I. and creating "life" is always fascinating, What makes us human What about empathy, our "soul", our ability to feel Can't these emotions be programmed I'm not convinced either way but it's something I do enjoy thinking about.
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