{"id":1997,"date":"2010-04-03T06:38:21","date_gmt":"2010-04-03T13:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/?p=1997"},"modified":"2010-10-09T02:21:56","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T20:51:56","slug":"book-review-the-naked-sun-by-isaac-asimov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/2010\/book-reviews\/book-review-the-naked-sun-by-isaac-asimov.html\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: &quot;The Naked Sun&quot; by Isaac Asimov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This book is a follow up of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/2010\/book-reviews\/book-review-the-caves-of-steel-by-isaac-asimov.html\">&#8220;The Caves of Steel&#8221;<\/a> though there are no plot overlaps and introduces us to the outworld planets just as the last one showed us the ins and outs of Earth. Asimov gives us a glimpse us what a completely roboticized society might be like and demonstrates some of the attendant consequences on human psychology. We&#8217;re still in the early history of earth and the &#8220;Foundation series&#8221;, though chronologically this book was written after many Foundation novels.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1998\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1998\" style=\"width: 190px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0553293397?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=expressions09-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0553293397\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1998 \" title=\"The Naked Sun by Isaac Asimov\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/The-Naked-Sun-by-Isaac-Asimov.jpg\" alt=\"The Naked Sun by Isaac Asimov\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1998\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Naked Sun by Isaac Asimov<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;m getting used to Asimov&#8217;s detective type stories. The mystery serves as a backdrop for his main exploration of whatever the theme of the book is &#8211; in this case, the play between robots and the dependent humans. The society is one where humans have almost forgotten what it&#8217;s like to do anything by themselves. On a newly colonized planet, there is so much space that drastic underpopulation is the result and people have developed a phobia about seeing other people in person. Instead they use &#8220;viewing&#8221; much like teleconferencing today.<\/p>\n<p>Some nuances of the three laws of robotics are also explained here. Specifically situations where a robot <em>can<\/em> harm a human despite the first law without knowing it. But on the whole, it&#8217;s pretty clear that Asimov doesn&#8217;t go for the &#8220;dangerous robot&#8221; theme. His three laws make them safer than any human could possibly be.<\/p>\n<p>The next book is &#8220;The Complete Robot&#8221; which is all of Asimov&#8217;s short robot stories compiled in one place. Perhaps I&#8217;ve read some of them in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/2010\/book-reviews\/book-review-i-robot-by-isaac-asimov.html\">&#8220;I, Robot&#8221;<\/a>. I guess I&#8217;ll find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book Review of &#8220;The Naked Sun&#8221; by Isaac Asimov from the &#8220;Foundation Series&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,33],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-1997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-sa","tag-foundation-series"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Book Review: &quot;The Naked Sun&quot; by Isaac Asimov<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Book Review of &quot;The Naked Sun&quot; by Isaac Asimov from the &quot;Foundation Series&quot;\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/2010\/book-reviews\/book-review-the-naked-sun-by-isaac-asimov.html\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Book Review: &quot;The Naked Sun&quot; 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