The Naked Sun

The second in the Robot series, The Naked Sun is even better than The Caves of Steel.

The Naked Sun takes us to the world of Solaria, a planet which represents extreme form of statism. Solarians have attained such highest levels of "wealth". The books tells us that such an extremenly affluent society, with low populations can can and will self-destruct.

Ye, Solarians are blissfully unaware of such impending doom. In fact they hold quite the opposite view, that all the other worlds would turn into Solaria and attain "equilibrium".

Yet, there is murder on this planet and Earthmen Baley is called to solve the seemingly impossible mystery. The rest of the book is a classic mystery with in mystery. The book further reinforces the claim that Earth and Earthmen represent the best hope for survival of humanity and further colonization of space. The outer worlds desperately need Earth to shake of their statism.

A thoroughly enjoyable read!