{"id":367,"date":"2008-05-16T10:34:05","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T15:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/?p=367"},"modified":"2008-05-16T10:47:35","modified_gmt":"2008-05-16T15:47:35","slug":"the-naked-sun-by-isaac-asimov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/the-naked-sun-by-isaac-asimov\/","title":{"rendered":"The Naked Sun by Isaac Asimov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Read 10\/2007]  Science Fiction.  1957<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/bozweb-20\/detail\/0553293397\/104-0553807-9763937\"><img style='float: left; margin: 10px 10px 0 0;' src='http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/5135CHN8WVL._SL210_.jpg'><\/a><br \/>\n<em><a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/bozweb-20\/detail\/0553293397\/104-0553807-9763937\">The Naked Sun<\/a><\/em> is the sequel to <em><a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/bozweb-20\/detail\/0553293400\/104-0553807-9763937\">The Caves of Steel<\/a><\/em>, and is the 2nd book in Asimov&#8217;s Robot series.  Elijah Baley (an Earth detective) is called upon to investigate a murder on the planet Solaria.  It seems a prominent scientist has been murdered, and the scientist&#8217;s wife is the prime suspect.  However, she is claiming that she is innocent.  Baley is partnered with the robot R. Daneel Olivaw (who hides the fact that he is a robot from the Solarians).<\/p>\n<p>On Solaria robots outnumber humans something like 20,000 to 1.  There are only about 20,000 humans on Solaria and they abhor any kind of personal contact.  Each Solarian lives on his\/her own private estate and only has contact with other humans via &#8220;viewing&#8221; (advanced holographics).  Earth is just the opposite, with billions of humans living underground in interconnected cities.  Earth humans don&#8217;t like the outside, and panic when they see &#8220;the naked sun&#8221;.  <\/p>\n<p>The police investigator (the only policeman on Solaria) is subsequently murdered and attempts are made on Elijah&#8217;s life as he gets closer to solving the crime.<\/p>\n<p>Classic Asimov sf!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Read 10\/2007] Science Fiction. 1957 The Naked Sun is the sequel to The Caves of Steel, and is the 2nd book in Asimov&#8217;s Robot series. Elijah Baley (an Earth detective) is called upon to investigate a murder on the planet Solaria. It seems a prominent scientist has been murdered, and the scientist&#8217;s wife is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}