The Robots Of Dawn
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
On the gleaming, utopian world of Aurora — where robots outnumber humans ten thousand to one — a unique crime has been committed: a humaniform robot named Jander Panell has been rendered permanently inoperative, and detective Elijah Baley is dispatched from a overcrowded, robot-phobic Earth to investigate what can only be described as roboticide. The Robots of Dawn is the third installment in Asimov's landmark Robot series, plunging Baley and his robot partner R. Daneel Olivaw into a politically charged murder mystery that threatens the fragile alliance between Earth and the Spacer worlds. Asimov masterfully weaves his legendary Three Laws of Robotics into a tightly plotted procedural thriller, using the genre to interrogate profound questions about consciousness, humanity, and what it truly means to be alive. The novel stands as one of the crowning achievements of Golden Age science fiction, showcasing Asimov's gift for logical deduction and his prescient understanding of human-robot relations — a theme as urgent today as ever. With its razor-sharp plotting and a final revelation that reframes everything that came before, The Robots of Dawn leaves its reader questioning where the boundary between man and machine truly lies.
Author: Isaac Asimov
Format: Hardback
Published: 1984, Granada
Genre: Science fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
On the gleaming, utopian world of Aurora — where robots outnumber humans ten thousand to one — a unique crime has been committed: a humaniform robot named Jander Panell has been rendered permanently inoperative, and detective Elijah Baley is dispatched from a overcrowded, robot-phobic Earth to investigate what can only be described as roboticide. The Robots of Dawn is the third installment in Asimov's landmark Robot series, plunging Baley and his robot partner R. Daneel Olivaw into a politically charged murder mystery that threatens the fragile alliance between Earth and the Spacer worlds. Asimov masterfully weaves his legendary Three Laws of Robotics into a tightly plotted procedural thriller, using the genre to interrogate profound questions about consciousness, humanity, and what it truly means to be alive. The novel stands as one of the crowning achievements of Golden Age science fiction, showcasing Asimov's gift for logical deduction and his prescient understanding of human-robot relations — a theme as urgent today as ever. With its razor-sharp plotting and a final revelation that reframes everything that came before, The Robots of Dawn leaves its reader questioning where the boundary between man and machine truly lies.