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Violence
Barely any
Mild; murder mystery danger and investigation
Language
None
No strong language
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
Barely any
Mild; the psychological complexity of a future society defined by agoraphobia and anti-robot prejudice
What this book is about
Isaac Asimov's first robot detective novel — which invented the robot buddy-cop genre — follows Earth detective Elijah Baley and robot R. Daneel Olivaw as they investigate a murder in the domed mega-city future of Earth. Asimov uses the mystery form to examine his own Three Laws of Robotics from a new angle, and the Baley/Daneel partnership is one of science fiction's great odd couples.
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