Overpopulation dystopia as background to a murder mystery solved by a robot and a human. The "caves of steel" are the cities of the future. A related novel in 1956 Asimov, “The Naked Sun.”
BT - Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) C5 -PSt
C6 -The author (1920-92) was born in Russia, brought to the U. S. age three, and became a U.S. citizen in 1928. His name was anglicized from Isaak Iudich Azimov
C7 - October - December 1953 DA - 10/1953 LA - eng N1 -Repub. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1954. Rpt. New York: New American Library, 1955. U.K. ed. London: T.V. Boardman, 1954; rpt. London: Panther, 1971. Also rpt. in his The Robot Novels: The Caves of Steel The Naked Sun. (Garden City: Doubleday, 1957), 1-202.
N2 -Overpopulation dystopia as background to a murder mystery solved by a robot and a human. The "caves of steel" are the cities of the future. A related novel in 1956 Asimov, “The Naked Sun.”
PY - 1953 SP - 4 EP - 66 SP - 98 EP - 159 SP - 108 EP - T2 - Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) TI - "The Caves of Steel" VL - 7.1 - 3 SN - 0016-4003 ER -