Lije is a police detective. He doesn't like robots or space people. We are in New York city in the future when robots and space people are common place.
A spaceman has been murdered. Lije is on the case and his partner is a robot spaceman.
Ch 2
We're world building here. Fun tidbit, Asimov thinks after we have 8 billion people we will have wide spread starvation. He's not wrong, but we also had widespread starvation when we had 5 billion people.
The robot detective looks like a man
Ch 3
On the way to Lije's place (if8 his wife doesn't throw a fit about this i will ) there's a bit of a mobile scene because a shoe store has robot clerks. Robot detective solves the problem by threatening to kill everyone with his gun.
Ch 4
Backstory of detective and his wife.
Mostly world building. This world sucks ass. There's a caste system and every one is crammed into cities which are fully enclosed. Worst of all, you have to earn privacy credits to earn the ability to eat on your own God DAMNED HOME!!!! otherwise you have to eat with your neighbors in a communal eating room.
Ooh, I almost forgot, you don't have your 9wn bathroom. Everyone has to use public toilets and showers and whatnot.
Ch 5
Detective and rovot talk about the murder they're trying to solve. Robot has an amazing idea. The murderer entered the place where only space people live via the countryside.
The detective 's wife is named Jessie (hey jessie) and she and their son leave so rovot and man can talk alone and when she comes home she is maybe a little drunk cause she's all, Mr, I think you might be a robot. And he's all, yes I am. It amused me.
Ch 6
Jessie is worried that if people find out there's a robot living here there will be a riot and they'll die in the riot.
Ch 7
Detective gets to space town and declares there has been no murder. His robot partner is the man that was supposedly murdered.
Ch 8
Robot disabuses detective of his suspicious by taking the skin off his arm to show him his rovot hand.
Ch 9
Spaceman lectures detective on his hopes of recruiting earth people to colonize more planets. The currently colonized planet livers have become stale and old and are frankly too comfortable to colonize any more planets. All you earthers that are packed into cities like sardines should be champing at the bit go to space and find a wide open planet to roam on.
Rovot tells detective that they only had one suspect. The police chief cause he's the only known earther to have been in the area where the space man was killed.
Oh, space men regularly live to be 300. Also, they kill any sickly children that might threaten their way of life.
Ch 10
Robot. And detective get an apartment to stay in so if there's an anti robot riot, detectives kid and wife won't end up colateral damage.
Robot and detective go to a community kitchen for dinner. They are being watched by people that were at the previous days shoe store uprising.
Ch 11
In our book club meeting about the first half of this book I complained a lot about how this book is really set in the fifties even though it's the future. The end of this chapter is really truly painful in that regard. Detective and robot lose their followers. Detectives soon shows up at the apartment. This is upsetting. What's more upsetting is that wife sent him cause she was worried. Detective calls his wife and tells her to calm down. It's not as bad as a Brent Weeks book, but it's pretty bad.
Ch 12
Detective brings in a robot expert asking what it would take to make a robot that would kill and the doctor says its inconceivable. Also doctor figures out robot is a robot.
Ch 13
Robot posits the theory that detectives wife is part of the anti robot conspiracy.
Ch 14
Robot is right. Wife is an antirobotnik.
Ch 15
They go to a soy factory and arrest a man for being an antirobotnik. That doesn't really feel totally legal, but since when do cops care about the law.
Ch 16
Antirobotnik smacks robot in The face. Robot Talks about how his kids would be better off on another planet.
The police robot was murdered. Detective thinks its a frame job against him. Worse than that robot called home and found out that the investigation has been ordered closed and everyone in spacetown is leaving earth.
Ch 17
Robot explains to detective that the investigation doesn't matter. It was a very small part in a much larger plan to get earthers to get back to colonizing. It appears to have worked with the medivilizers and that's why the spacers are leaving.
Detective is between a rock and a hard place. Commissioner is his friend and understands that detective is giving him solid evidence that the destruction of.police robot is a frame job. But hes gotta follow the evidence, which is stacked up against detective pretty high.
But it's still today. Detective has had a eureka moment and with an hour left he's gonna solve this thing.
Ch 18
It was the commissioner all along. He's a midevilest. He knows jessie is a midevilest. He came up with this whole plan to have his friend screw up the investigation and if that didn't work throw him under the bus.
But he didn't really mean to do a murder. He meant to kill robot. But robot looks so much like his maker he accidentally killed the man and not the robot.
Sweet.
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