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Robots and Murder: The Caves of Steel / The Naked Sun / Robots of Dawn (Robot, Bks 1-3)
Robots and Murder The Caves of Steel / The Naked Sun / Robots of Dawn - Robot, Bks 1-3 Author:Isaac Asimov Millennia from now, humanity is split into two hostile camps: the 8 billion inhabitants of Earth, who huddle in overcrowded mega-cities, closed off from the air, and the Spacers, long-lived descendants of Earth, who, with their faithful robots, live in luxury on uncrowded worlds. Ever since the Spacers urged their "R's" into the Ci... more »ties, the robots have been taking human jobs, stirring anti-robot sentiment that has culminated in the formation of a secret society dedicated to their destruction.
Like most Earth natives, NYPD detective Elijah Baley has little love for either Spacers or robots. But when a noted robot scientist and Spacer is murdered under mysterious circumstances, Baley is ordered to track down the killer. To make matters worse, he's assigned a partner: R. Daneel Olivaw -- a robot made in the likeness of the victim.
Baley survives the investigation -- only to find himself assigned to another such detail on beautiful Spacer planet Solaria. the victim had been so reclusive that he appeared to his associates only through a holographic projection; yet someone had gotten close enough to bludgeon him to death while his robots looked on. Now Baley and Olivaw are faced with two clear impossibilities: Either the Solarian was killed by one of his robots -- unthinkable under the Laws of Robotics -- or he was killed by the woman who loved him so much that she never came into his presence.
Two years later, Baley and Olivaw are called to planet Aurora -- where humans and robots coexist in seemingly perfect harmony -- to solve a bizarre case of roboticide. Only one man on Aurora had the means, the motive and the opportunity to commit the crime -- and he has hired Baley to prove he didn't do it. To make matters worse, Baley learns that not only his career and his life but Earth's right to pioneer the Galaxy is hanging on his investigation.