The Caves of Steel
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On a crowded, crumbling Earth, Detective Elijah Baley has no love for the Spacers—the pampered off-world aristocrats—or for the gleaming machines they keep as companions. But when a Spacer dignitary is found murdered under suspicious circumstances, Baley is ordered to cross the void to the Outer Worlds and hunt a killer in alien territory.
From the moment he arrives, the case is poisoned. The Spacers distrust him for being Earthborn, and the investigation is a nest of secrets and hostility. Then comes the final insult: his new partner is none other than R. Daneel Olivaw, a positronic man built in the exact image of the victim himself.
Suspicion, prejudice, and fear stalk every step as Baley is forced to rely on the one thing he despises most—a robot—to solve a murder that could change the uneasy balance between Earth and the stars forever.