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The Naked Sun

  • Isaac Asimov

3.89

19 ratings

On the remote planet Solaria the first murder for two hundred years has been committed. The Solarians are Spacers with a civilisation based on robots instead of slaves - and some pretty weird taboos and phobias. Into this strange set-up comes Terran detective Elijah Baley, assigned to find the murderer and act as an investigator for his government. But as an Earthman, Baley finds aspects of life on Solaria difficult, even terrifying, to cope with. (Men on Earth live deep underground in their vast caves of steel and are terrified of anything outside.) From the moment of his arrival on Solaria, Baley's investigation becomes an ordeal of nerves under the pitiless glare of the naked sun...

Genres

  • Fiction
  • Science fiction
  • Robots
  • Robots in fiction
  • Fiction, science fiction, hard science fiction
  • Fiction, mystery & detective, general
  • American literature
  • Fiction, science fiction, general
  • American Science fiction
  • Murder
  • Investigation
  • Space colonies
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About the author

  • Isaac Asimov

    2 January 1920 - 6 April 1992

    4.12

    1583 ratings · 1361 works

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    LANCER BOOKS INC

    1957

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    3. Auflage

    Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Heyne

    1978

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    Editions J'ai Lu

    1973

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    Lancer Books

    1968

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Fawcett Publications

1971-05

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    Heyne

    12.09.2016

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    Heyne Verlag

    1976

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    Aleph

    Jan 01, 2014

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    HarperVoyager

    19 April 2018

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    MLBD

    May 05, 2008

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    Panther/Granada Publishing

    1980

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    Doubleday

    Jun 29, 1957

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    Mondadori

    1996

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    J'ai lu

    September 24, 2002

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    J'ai lu / Science-fiction

    Aug 28, 1994

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    Ediciones Martínez Roca S A

    1990

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    Orbis

    1985

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    Fawcett Crest

    1971

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    Re-issue edition

    Collins

    October 25, 1993

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    Unabridged edition

    Tantor Media

    June 25, 2007

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    MP3 Una edition

    Tantor Media

    June 25, 2007

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    Doubleday

    Jul 14, 1983

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    Random House Mondadori

    2006

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    Unabridged edition

    Tantor Media

    June 25, 2007

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    Panther

    1972

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    Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media

    November 1991

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    Fawcett Crest

    1972

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    Spectra, Bantam Books

    November 1, 1991

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    Panther

    1964

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    Tandem Library

    October 1999

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    Granada, Amaranth Press

    1984

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    Del Rey

    October 12, 1986

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    Fawcett

    1972-01-01

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    HarperCollins Publishers Limited

    2023

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    A Panther Book

    1957-01-01

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    Ballantine Books

    1954

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    Chu ban

    Mao tou ying chu ban

    2009

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    Club du livre d'anticipation]

    1970

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    Ediciones Roca

    1991

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    Fawcett

    May 12, 1981

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    Michael Joseph

    1959

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    Fawcett

    July 12, 1975

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    Fawcett Publications

    1972

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    Del Rey

    November 12, 1983

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    Gold Lion Books

    1973

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    [1st ed.]

    Lancer

    1966

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    Fawcett

    1957

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    Del Rey

    August 12, 1985