The Naked Sun
by Isaac Asimov
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Author: Isaac AsimovEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1991-12-01
ISBN: 0553293397
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Spectra Books by Bantam Books
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Book Review: Bad Cop
Summary: 5 Stars
1. Robot can commit murder. Dr. Leebig was the master mind murder orchestrating the death of Dr. Delmarre. Dr. Leebig knew Gladia quarreled fiercely with her husband. Dr. Leebig seeing Gladia rather than viewing, instructed a robot , of his creation, too detach his limb and give it to Gladia, as a weapon. Why did Dr. Leebig want to kill Rikaine Delmarre? Rikanine was known as a traditionalist, a model citizen. Delmarre had told Gruer, "The whole human race is in danger" and planned on shutting down Leebig partnership and operations. Gladia thinks Hannis Gruer poisoned himself; Gladia knows Hannies personally. A robot can not let harm come to a human indirectly. The second law would have required the robot to ask, what is the nature of the liquid poured into the glass; will it bring harm to the human; if so, the robot would intervene, preventing harm.
2. However, Leebig had the cooperation of the house robots and they followed his instructions leading to Gruers poisoning. "If a robot can be manipulated into doing harm to a man, it means only that we must extend the powers of the positronic brain. One might say we ought to make the human better. That is impossible, so we will make the robot more foolproof."
3. Corwin Attlebish becomes the new head of security. Attlebish believed the drink was an over medication for some one over 250 years age. Baley argues that Gruer was poisoned, "yelling his throat was burning." Baley and Attlebish (Spacer) don't get along; Attlesbish desired for Elijah and Daniel to depart Solaria.
4. Gladia in a moment of rage killed her husband and blacked out and fell to the floor. The robot's arm was smeared with blood and hair. Dr. Leebig had modified the positronic brain; Robot testimony can not be used as evidence; the modified robots could break the first law of Robotics; for example the poison arrow aim at Baley and the poison drink that injured Security Head Gruer; the injury summoned concern that a robot rebellion possible.
5. The house robots reported the dead body, but could not say more because it could bring harm too Dr. Leebig. Dr. Leebig used his great knowledge about robots to manipulate them into silence. No murder weapon was found, the residual gamma-ray level was low, and nothing sizeable had been destroyed in hours.
6. The Robot at the murder scene was not capable of stopping the murder and the murder cause a permanent seizure of his positronic brain. Dr. Leebig quickly had the robot destroyed before Elijah Baley and Danel Olivaw arrived. Daniel did not believe the robot could be at the crime scene at the time of the murder because the Robot would have stop the murder; or the robot heard Delmarre cried out, "Your going to kill me", arrived late, and saw the murder; or the Robot was indifferent and did not respond. The first law would not allow a robot to witness a murder and not act without more or less damage to the positronic brain.
7. After the murder, the Solarians requested Elijah Baley and Daniel Olivaw, on case. The travel from earth to Solaria cross many parsecs. On Solarian it been decades since a murder and they felt incompetent to handle case. Solaria has been colonized 300 years prior. Nexon was over crowd so they migrated to Solaria and built robots. Robot factories were built on Solaria. Robots were used for farming and mining.
8. Dr. Thool, Gladia biological father examined her after she regain consciousness. Dr. Thool told Gladia, she was his daughter. Solarian children are raise on fetal farms, 50 percent grow into adulthood, replace dying Solarians, and inherit the mansion and plantation. 20,000 Solarians, 200 million robots, and enormous plantation occupy terrain under open sky. Each estate was approximately 10-20 million acres. Solaris was built on the principles and model of the Spartan civilization. Marriage is arrange by gene analysis. Gladia and Rikane ages differences were large.
9. Klorissa Cantoro is Delmarres attractive assistant. Klorissa manages the fetal farm and overseas the operations and health concerns; but most watches as the robots care for the children. A child attempts to shoot Elijah with an arrow, poison tipped, but missed because Elijah rolls out of the way, at the last second. The robot claims the boy moved to quickly and he was not fast enough to stop potential injury to the human. Bik was the best archer in the facility. The children often shot at the robots without injury.
10. Baley said of Gladia, "She had suffered enough. She had been victimized by everyone; by her husband, by Leebig, by the world of Solaria." Gladia desired affection, children, and human interaction and admired earth. Minnim said, "Weren't you bending the law to suit a personal whim?" Baley considered Gladia innocent because the act was "murder in an act of passion". A jury should have decided Gladia's guilt or innocence, not Baley. His job was to fact find.
11. Gladia was 33 years old. Most Solarians view each other using the tridimensional viewer, a complete immersive reality. However, Gladia does not seem repulsed by personal space with Baley.
12. Elijah Baley is a bad cop. The positionic robot was a symbol of Spacers superiority over earthmen. Baley believed he could solve the case by himself, he was wrong. Baley has Daniel confined by the house robots. Daniel would have pursued Justice, however, his confinement allowed Baley the opportunity to purse his interests. It seems like Elijah is evading Daniels mothering, but this is a serious murder case and he has detained his partner.
13. Gladia was trying too seduce Baley, exposing her self, after showering, shocking but pleasing Baley. Baley's lenience suggested a lack of justice and violation of the due process. Baley says murder rests on three legs: motive, means, and opportunity. Gladia had opportunity. Gladia and Leebig were having an affair. Leebig was extremely jealous of Delmarre relationship and he wanted his position too build robots to take over earth.
14. Gladia had Elijah sit on a concrete seat out in the open air. Elijah becomes dizzy and begin to faint. Daniel arrive just in time to catch him from falling into three feet of water. Daniel believes that Gladia was trying to kill Elijah.
15. Baley views Solaria as the hope for earth. The Caves of Steel isolated the humans.
Summary of The Naked Sun
A millennium into the future, two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the Galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. On the beautiful Outer World planet of Solaria, a handful of human colonists lead a hermit-like existence, their every need attended to by their faithful robot servants. To this strange and provocative planet comes Detective Elijah Baley, sent from the streets of New York with his positronic partner, the robot R. Daneel Olivaw, to solve an incredible murder that has rocked Solaria to its foundations. The victim had been so reclusive that he appeared to his associates only through holographic projection. Yet someone had gotten close enough to bludgeon him to death while 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!Literature & Fiction Books
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