As Cavernas de Aco

Zachte kaft

Gepubliceerd 25 oktober 2019 door Editora Aleph.

ISBN:: 978-85-7657-453-8

"A Del Rey book."

It was bad enough when Lije Baley, a simple plainclothes cop, was ordered to solve a totally baffling mystery - the murder of a prominent Spacer. It was worse when he found that the smug, self-satisfied Spacers were behind the pressure to provide an impossibly quick solution.

But then Lije discovered the worst of all bad news. The Spacers, distrusting all Earthmen, insisted he must work with an investigator of their choice. And that investigator turned out to be R. Daneel Olivaw. R stood for robot--and Lije hated and feared robots deeply, bitterly and pathologically.

Issac Asimov's The Naked Sun and The Caves of Steel are two of the most famous science-fiction novels ever. They are set long after mankind - aided by the positronic robot - has colonized the worlds of other suns. This is a time of growing concern between Earthmen …

"A Del Rey book."

It was bad enough when Lije Baley, a simple plainclothes cop, was ordered to solve a totally baffling mystery - the murder of a prominent Spacer. It was worse when he found that the smug, self-satisfied Spacers were behind the pressure to provide an impossibly quick solution.

But then Lije discovered the worst of all bad news. The Spacers, distrusting all Earthmen, insisted he must work with an investigator of their choice. And that investigator turned out to be R. Daneel Olivaw. R stood for robot--and Lije hated and feared robots deeply, bitterly and pathologically.

Issac Asimov's The Naked Sun and The Caves of Steel are two of the most famous science-fiction novels ever. They are set long after mankind - aided by the positronic robot - has colonized the worlds of other suns. This is a time of growing concern between Earthmen and Spacers. Lije Baley, who is filled with all Earths prejudice agains robots and Spacers, must learn to work together with a seemingly human robot to solve apparently impossible crimes that threaten the fragile link between Earth and Space.

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theDuesentrieb@buecher.pnpde.social heeft The Caves of Steel door Айзек Азимов gerecenseerd (Robot, #1)

Einigermaßen unterhaltsame Story, die aber mehr Krimi als Scifi ist

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Inhoudswaarschuwing Leichte Spoiler zum Weltenbau

Fast interessanter als die Story fand ich die Darstellung der Erdengesellschaft.

Mit 8 Millarden(!) ist die Erde kritisch überbevölkert. Der Kapitalismus wurde abgeschafft und durch eine Art fluides Kastensystem mit Privileg-Rating abhängig vom Beruf ersetzt. Das regelt den Zugang zu Gütern, von der Qualität des Essens über Wohnung bis zur Erlaubnis Kinder zu haben. Die ständige Angst vor De-Privilegisierung, zusammen mit der stärkeren Nutzung von Robotern (die ersteres wiederum verstärkt) führt zu starken sozialen Unruhen und Ressentiments gegenüber Robotern und den Spacern. Diese haben eine komplett roboterbasierte Wirtschaft und können aufgrund der vergleichsweise geringen Bevölkerung einen großen Wohlstand genießen.

Analog zu den historischen Maschinenstürmern, entlädt sich die berechtige Wut nicht etwa gegen das dystopische Kastensystem, sondern gegen Roboter. Ich glaube, Marx hätte da einiges dazu zu sagen.