The story presents us with Elijah Baley, a detective from the overcrowded New York of the future, an Earth where people are so used to being packed in and living their lives in tiny apartments and hallways, the mere hint of a stretch of land is enough to cause panic attacks. It’s as fun as watching a Columbo murder-mystery movie…except this has robots in it. It’s a book that brims with enthusiasm and love and fun, and it’s exciting to shoot through it. What Caves of Steel has going for it is that it offers a whodunit detective story, a genre that Asimov loved as dearly as science fiction. And while Foundation might be one of Asimov’s most ambitious works, both in terms of ideas and scale, it’s also a more complicated novel made up of different stories told from different points in history. I, Robot, while a very groundbreaking and brilliant book, is a collection of disjointed stories that might put off a reader in ways that the unified story of a novel won’t. Why not I, Robot, which is the first robot book? Why the second? Why not Foundation, one of his more famous books? Simple. Now you might be looking at that choice a little oddly and wondering why I’m not going for the obvious Asimov titles. So where does one start? With this article, actually. True enough, there’s some contention about how many books he actually wrote…but frankly, if your body of work is so huge as to generate contention, then it doesn’t matter how many books are in it. It just gets intimidating when you zoom out a little and realize that he wrote over 400 books. It was absolutely bare-bones, something he was unapologetic for, and that seems easy enough. His prose was always straight-forward, simple, and readable. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.On the face of it, Isaac Asimov doesn’t seem like that difficult an author to get into…and really, he’s not. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice.
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