![]() ![]() New York, for example, encompasses the present-day New York City as well as large tracts of New Jersey.Īsimov imagines the present day's underground transit connected to malls and apartment blocks, extended to a point where no one ever exits to the outside world. ![]() ![]() The eponymous "caves of steel" are vast underground city complexes, capable of supporting tens of millions each. Meanwhile, Earth is overpopulated (with a total population of 8 billion) and strict rules against robots have been passed. The Spacer worlds are rich, have low population density (average population of one hundred million each) and use robot labor very heavily. They live roughly three millennia in Earth's future, a time when hyperspace travel has been discovered, and a few worlds relatively close to Earth have been colonized-fifty planets known as the " Spacer worlds". They would later become his, and moreso his readers', favorite protagonists. Isaac Asimov first introduced Elijah Baley and R. ![]()
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