The Caves of Steel

It's heralded as one of the best books Asimov ever wrote, but to me The Caves of Steel felt pretty pulpy. Maybe there's not a lot to be expected from a mere 200 page novel released in 1954.

There's really not much meat on the bone storywise: it hardly does anything new to the revolutionary ideas Asimov introduced to humanity in the earlier robot stories, and it basically just toys around a bit with them in what is just a plain, straightforward and wooden detective story.

It's also not nearly thought out as well as any of the books in the Foundation trilogy (...)

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