The Robots of Dawn by Isaac Asimov
The Robots of Dawn by Isaac Asimov
Audiobook | ISBN-10: 0553299492 | 2008 | English | MP3 (64 kb/s) | 440 Mb
Sci-Fi, Fantasy book
Sci-Fi, Fantasy book
The book opens with Elijah Baley on Earth, training with his son and others to tolerate the outside, in spite of their socially ingrained agoraphobia. He is ordered to go to Washington.
There, he is told that the Spacer world of Aurora has requested through diplomatic channels that he go to Aurora. He is told that the mind of R. Jander Panell, a humaniform robot identical to R. Daneel Olivaw, has been destroyed via a mental block - "roboticide", as Baley later terms it.
A robot's inventor, Han Fastolfe, has been implicated. Fastolfe, who was last seen in The Caves of Steel, is the best roboticist on Aurora. He has admitted that he is the only person with the skill to have done it, although he denies doing it. Fastolfe is also a prominent member of the Auroran political faction that favors Earth. Implication in the crime threatens his political career; therefore, it is politically expedient that he be exonerated.