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		The second group were the Spacers, who had taken to colonizing other planets, had hundreds of acres of personal land per individual, barely ever talked to another human face-to-face, and relied utterly on the labor of robot assistants.
		Asimov was taking the same kind of philosophy Bruce once had, and extended it to the extreme to show what could happen.
		While the Spacer lifestyle looked pretty and clean and advanced, while the Earth dweller's lifestyle looked cramped and dirty and primitive, Asimov pointed out that the Spacers were deeply dysfunctional, and were setting themselves up for a massive disaster.
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		Asimov's novels chronicle the gradual deterioration of the Spacer worlds and the disappearance of robots from human society.
		Unlike their Spacer predecessors, the Settlers detested robots, and so by the time of the Empire novels robotics is almost an unknown science.
		Asimov's novel Nemesis hints that the Spacers may have been descendants of human beings selected by a non-human intelligence for their mental characteristics.
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	The Caves of Steel
		The spacer worlds are rich, have low population density and use robot labour very heavily.
		A Spacer ambassador, who tries to convince the Earth government about both the importance of robots and of that of continuing space exploration and colonization, is murdered.
		In Asimov's later books, the character Elijah will be remembered for thousands of years into the future, as the man who started the second immigration wave from earth.
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	The Caves of Steel (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The spacer worlds are rich, have low population density (average population of one hundred million each) and use robot labour very heavily.
		Asimov 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.
		In Asimov's later books, the character Elijah will come to be remembered, thousands of years into the future, as the man who started the second wave of migration from Earth.
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	Spacer (Asimov) at AllExperts
		Asimov's novels chronicle the gradual deterioration of the Spacer worlds and the disappearance of robots from human society.
		Unlike their Spacer predecessors, the Settlers detested robots, and so by the time of the Empire novels robotics is almost an unknown science.
		Asimov's novel Nemesis hints that the Spacers may have been descendants of human beings selected by a non-human intelligence for their mental characteristics.
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	Spacer Beads -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Spacers slow down the speed of the aerosol coming from the inhaler, meaning that less of the asthma drug impacts on the back of the mouth and more gets into the lungs.
		Asimov's novel ''Nemesis'' hints that the Spacers may have been descendants of human beings selected by a non-human intelligence for their mental characteristics.
		The spacer is a sequence of RNA in a primary transcript that lies between precursor ribosomal subunits and is removed by splicing when the structural RNA precursor molecule is processed into a Ribosome.
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	The History of the Positronic Robot and Foundation Stories, 1973-1988
		Asimov was pleased at finally having written a bestselling novel after more than thirty years as a novelist and forty years as a writer.
		Unlike the Spacers, the Settlers (as the new colonists are called) have maintained close ties with Earth, and regard the home planet with something close to worship.
		Instead, Asimov seized upon a remark made to him by a fan who told him he had always wanted to know what had happened to Hari Seldon when he was young, and how he had come to invent psychohistory.
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	Robots and Empire Information
		Asimov (1994), Asimov explains that following his commercial and critical success with The Robots of Dawn, he decided to write Robots and Empire with the intentions of making Daneel, "the real hero of the series," the novel's protagonist; and that Robots and Empire would create a bridge to the later volumes of his future history.
		In this second aim, Asimov says he was dissuaded by Lester and Judy-Lynn del Rey, then-editors of Del Rey Books, which published the paperback editions of Asimov's books in the 1980s; the del Reys felt fans of Asimov's future histories would rather keep the Robot and Empire/Foundation universes separate.
		Asimov wrote Robots and Empire in a nonlinear fashion (other examples of nonlinear plot-structuring in Asimov's novels can be found in The Gods Themselves and Nemesis).
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		Bailey in the first story managed to solve the murder of a top Spacer scientist on Earth, now he is asked by the ruling Spacer government to go to the distant planet of Solaris to solve the seemingly impossible murder of a spacer.
		It is very unusual for the spacer to ask anything of earth so low I their regard for the mother planet and in the eyes of the earth government this is a great opportunity to prove a point and show the spacers the worth of earth culture.
		Asimov develops the main characters from the first novel well and again Bailey comes across as the everyman figure that all readers can identify with.
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	The Robot Series - Kaedrin's Guide to Isaac Asimov
		This is my favorite of the three main series mainly because of the relationship between the spacers (those sneaky bastards who colonized the galaxy) and the earthers (the wimps who stayed home).
		This series also demonstrates how Asimov is able to work within a given set of guidlines (the famous 3 laws of robotics) and yet forward fresh and exciting ideas.
		The Caves of Steel: The first novel in the Robot Series has a standard murder mystery storyline in which a prominent spacer is murdered and a Earth detective is paired up with a humanoid robot to solve the mystery.
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	Foundation and Earth Information
		Foundation and Earth (1986) is a science fiction novel by Isaac Asimov, the fifth novel of the Foundation Series and chronologically the last in the series.
		Since the Spacers were the first colonists from Earth back in the ancient days of space travel, it is surmised that their planets would be fairly close to Earth.
		The first Spacer planet they visit is Aurora, where Trevize is nearly killed by a pack of wild dogs, presumed to be the descendants of household pets long since reverted to wolf-like savagery.
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	SciFiHorrorBooks Store - Caves of Steel (Robot City (Paperback)) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Asimov's Caves of Steel is the first novel in his famous Robot series and takes place after I, Robot (a collection of short stories which I recommend reading first).
		Asimov does it all here and this is a rare literary example of a book covering numerous bases successfully.
		Asimov was way ahead of his time and this series deals with alienation, racism and social awareness that really strikes home in today's troubled times.
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	Isaac Asimov's The Caves of Steel. The Eternal Night Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Web Site
		The small minority who don't live on Earth in these cities are the Spacers, citizens of the 50 human colonised planets, for whom the Earthbound civilisation harbour string feelings of resentment and even hatred.
		Asimov's future Earth is wonderfully realised, the horror evident in the reaction of the Earthbound is superbly realistic, the social conditioning imaginative and self consistent, the anti-robot and anti-Spacer sentiment handled well without any over-the-top theatrics.
		Okay it is fair to say that Isaac Asimov is one of my favourite authors, but I think that this should appeal to most SF fans.
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	Isaac Asimov: The Rise and Fall of the Spacers
		Now there is a growing desire among the Spacers to punish the people of Earth for their past wrongs, and to demonstrate to themselves and to the Earthmen just who it is who now holds the upper hand.
		Spacer communities are made up of individual houses, each separated from its neighbors by a hectare or two of land.
		Although the Spacers are never willing to acknowledge the fact, most of the impetus for the settlement of new Outer Worlds has come from the children and grandchildren of Terran immigrants.
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		Not just the Spacer/Robot novels which link the "Spacers" of his 1949 story "Mother Earth" with his most famous creations, the Law-abiding Robots, the pinnacle of which are the humaniform robots - robots that are essentially human, just made better.
		Even the Spacers have a prehistory, before interstellar travel, as inhabitants of artificial space colonies, as depicted in Nemesis.
		Asimov was sufficiently aware of technical change to imagine advanced display and computing technology even in the late 40s, but he sets their implementation millennia hence - oh well, can't always get it right.
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		Asimov continued to write his robot stories throughout the intervening years, and in so doing continued to flesh out this storyline.
		There’s the fascinating fifty Spacer Worlds, an early attempt at Galactic settlement curtailed by the decadence of the culture whose members chose to live for centuries and are pampered by robots.
		Asimov’s mystery-oriented science fiction (and much of it is, even if not usually thought of that way) tends to end Agatha Christie style, with the protagonist explaining everything to a group of interested observers.
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	4Literature \|\| Isaac Asimov's Robot-Empire-Foundation Series (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Isaac Asimov's Robot-Empire-Foundation series (so called because it's the union of what was originally three separate storylines into a single fictional universe) is the story of the rise of man from the present day onward.
		It is rumored that Terrans spread the disease, fueling the anti-Earth sentiment among Spacers.
		Cultural crisis is evaded by the merging of Spacers and the Settler terraformers.
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	Charles Elkins- Isaac Asimov's FOUNDATION Novels: Historical Materialism Distorted into Cyclical Psycho-History
		Asimov has been awarded a Hugo "for the best all time science fiction series," and many SF aficionados describe their first encounter with Asimov’s novels in religious terms.
		Further, if Asimov was at all aware of the all-pervading political and intellectual milieu of the New Deal decade, he would have been exposed to the clamorous controversies between the Left and the Right as well as within the Left of the time (e.g.
		Asimov’s answer to this modern problem of alienation is also the source of his popular appeal: he envisions humanity in the capable hands of a techno-bureaucratic elite.
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	Spacer - Asimov - a Wikia wiki
		The group of modified humans known as "Spacers" are the descendants of the first wave of colonists that left Earth.
		The term Spacer is very general and is primarily used by the people of Earth in a derogatory manner.
		Spacers prefer to refer to themselves by their planet of origin; that is, Auroran, Solarian, etc.
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	Melpomenia - Owned By Seven!!
		Asimov chose the name Melpomenia after Melpomene, the Muse of tragedy.
		This was symbolic of the tragedy represented on the planet, which was the 19 of the Spacer worlds.
		No doubt, Asimov's inclusion of this statue was his interpretation of the most common visualizations of Melpomene herself.
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	Amazon.ca: Robots of Dawn: Books: Isaac Asimov (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Called to the Spacer world to solve a case of roboticide, New York City detective Elijah Baley teams up with humanoid robot R. Daneel Olivaw to prove that the prime suspect, a renowned roboticist, is innocent of the crime.
		Asimov's characters and plot are deep, and his understanding of human nature is truly remarkable.
		And yet Asimov manages to provoke in his readers a strong sense of hope for the future of humankind.
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	Amazon.com: Caves of Steel (Robot City): Books: Isaac Asimov (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Asimov's Caves of Steel is the first novel in his famous Robot series and takes place after I, Robot (a collection of short stories which I recommend reading first).
		Asimov does it all here and this is a rare literary example of a book covering numerous bases successfully.
		Asimov was way ahead of his time and this series deals with alienation, racism and social awareness that really strikes home in today's troubled times.
	www.amazon.com /Caves-Steel-Robot-Isaac-Asimov/dp/0553293400 (2080 words)

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		The basis for this is that spacers have evolved to have prolonged lifespans, mostly because when humans traveled into space they didn't take their diseases along with them.
		Additionally, spacers use robots to do much of their work (since their planets have remained sparsely populated due to rigid population control measures) and earthlings are decidedly anti-robot since they take valuable jobs away from people.
		The spacers declare that one of their own couldn't have done it and that it must have been an earthling - probably one participating in the anti-spacer movement that is trying to get them forced off of Earth.
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	Welcome to Asimov Online
		Asimov wrote to a wide range of readers including children, teenagers and students of higher education.
		In the realm of science fiction, Asimov invented ideas such as "The Three Laws of Robotics" and "Psychohistory." Both concepts heavily influenced the "Golden age" of science fiction- the first established robots as logical thinkers while the latter helped to establish the concept of a galactic empire.
		Asimov's non-fiction works too are written for a variety of reading levels.
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	SF REVIEWS.NET: The Caves of Steel / Isaac Asimov
		At the Spacers' insistence, Baley is partnered with — horror of horrors — a robot, R. Daneel Olivaw.
		The Spacers, and Olivaw, believe the scientist was murdered by an underground anti-Spacer organization which knew of these plans, and, to say the least, disapproved strongly.
		But Asimov stayed several jumps ahead of me throughout this tale; one terrific storytelling ploy was to have Baley make some humiliating goofs early in the investigation, not something you'd ever find a flawless thinker like Poirot doing.
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	Jedi Council Forums - Isaac Asimov
		Isaac Asimov was born in the Soviet Union and later moved to New York with his parents.
		Asimov wrote many works of non-fiction but he is most famous for his fiction.
		Asimovs, the magazine that he started, is also an excellent source of science fiction.
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	The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov - SciFiHorrorBooks.com
		Isaac Asimov's Robot novels chronicle the unlikely partnership between a New York City detective and a humanoid robot who must learn to work together.
		But when a prominent Spacer is murdered under mysterious circumstances, Baley is ordered to the Outer Worlds to help track down the killer.
		The relationship between Life and his Spacer superiors, who distrusted all Earthmen, was strained from the start.
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	Spacer On GlobalSpec
		Preload springs, spacers and washers are used to provide end-play take up or a constant preload for bearings, gears and other mechanical components and assemblies.
		of the spacer layer material and the reflection amplitudes for electrons scattering at the interfaces between the spacer layer and the ferromagnetic layer [2,3].
		The orientation of the spacer and spar in figure 7 is consistent with the recovered.
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	The Robots of Dawn - SCIFIPEDIA
		Asimov published this new novel in 1983, after 26 years away from the series, and his intention was not just to turn the set into a trilogy, but also to connect the robot mysteries to his other great science fiction series, Foundation.
		This is because Spacer worlds have devised the secret to long life; Spacer people live to be centuries old, while Earthers, with their short lives, are more energetic and more determined to get things done quickly, in the short time they have available to them.
		Further, the globalists want to send out humaniform robots to lead the initial explorations of these new worlds, which is their great problem, since only one man has the knowledge to build humaniform robots, and he is opposed to the globalists.
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	The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov, a Robot series novel
		In the 1950's, Asimov turned to writing novels, beginning with Pebble in the Sky (1950), The Stars, Like Dust (1951, vt The Rebellious Stars), and The Currents of Space (1952), all of which were set earlier in the future history of the galactic empire featured in the Foundation series.
		His novel-length work is generally considered (including by Asimov himself) to have improved with The End of Eternity (1955), a time travel novel, and The Caves of Steel (1954) and The Naked Sun (1957), SF mystery novels that featured detective Lije Baley and his robot companion R. Daneel Olivaw.
		Asimov's important collections of short SF during this last phase of his career include The Winds of Change and Other Stories (1983), The Edge of Tomorrow (1985), The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov (1986), The Asimov Chronicles (1989), and Gold (1995).
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