The Caves of Steel

The Caves of Steel

1952 • 200 pages

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15

Pretty solid story! The idea was most certainly to do a detective story (since the protagonist was himself a detective) and it worked well. The protagonist, Elijah or Ljie was pretty good. He made sense and was well written. My favourite part of the book was the interactions between Ljie and Daneel. I especially loved the part where Ljie recounted John 8:1-11 of the Bible. I really liked how Ljie mentioned the Bible; it's really interesting to think how Christianity and Sci-Fi would interact. I wonder if the future books will mention it, especially Ljie's remark that half of Earth's population are Christian. I also hope that we'll see the beginnings of galactic colonisation in the future books and the consequences of it in the future franchises. Overall I like the one story over the multiple short stories of I, Robot.

May 1, 2023