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The Naked Sun (Elijah Baley, Book 2)
by Isaac Asimov
Punk's review
The Naked Sun (Elijah Baley, Book 2) by Isaac Asimov
Punk's review
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SF. Baley's called to investigate another murder, this one off planet. R. Daneel provides back up. Sherlock Holmes could have solved this case in his sleep, but, again, the book's really just an excuse to play with different sociological perspectives. This one's set on a planet where the people are so isolated that personal interaction has become taboo. This makes the inseparable Daneel and Elijah raise some eyebrows. Witness the scene where they're conducting an interview over the 3-D viewer-thingy, and the woman starts acting uncomfortable and asks Elijah if she can ask a "rude" question about him and Daneel. I expected her to ask if they were gay but what she really wants to know is if they're in the same room together. Considering how the people on this planet only meet face-to-face in order to reproduce, she's basically asking the same thing, just in a different way. Elijah and Daneel -- subversive even off-world!
Three stars, mostly for Elijah and Daneel and their pr...more
Three stars, mostly for Elijah and Daneel and their pr...more
