![]() ![]() The New York City of that era, for example, encompasses present-day New York City, as well as large tracts of New Jersey.Īsimov imagines the present day's underground transit connected to malls and apartment blocks, extended to a point where no one ever exits to the outside world. The eponymous "caves of steel" are vast city complexes covered by huge metal domes, capable of supporting tens of millions each. Meanwhile, Earth is overpopulated (with a total population of eight billion), and strict rules against robots have been passed. The Spacer worlds are rich, have low population density (average population of one hundred million each), and use robot labor very heavily. They live roughly three millennia in Earth's future, a time when hyperspace travel has been discovered, and a few worlds relatively close to Earth have been colonised - fifty planets known as the "Spacer worlds". ![]() Daneel Olivaw, who would later become his favorite protagonists. In this novel, Isaac Asimov first introduced Elijah Baley and R. ![]()
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