A millennium into the future two advancements have altered the course ofhuman history: the colonization of the galaxy and the creation of thepositronic brain.Isaac Asimov's "Robot" novels chronicle the unlikelypartnership between a New York City detective and a humanoid robot whomust learn to work together. Like most people left behind on anover-populated Earth, New York City police detective Elijah Baley hadlittle love for either the arrogant Spacers or their robotic companions.But when a prominent Spacer is murdered under mysterious circumstances,Baley is ordered to the Outer Worlds to help track down the killer.Therelationship between Life and his Spacer superiors, who distrusted allEarthmen, was strained from the start. Then he learned that they hadassigned him a partner: R. Daneel Olivaw. Worst of all was that the " R"stood for robot--and his positronic partner was made in the image andlikeness of the murder victimASIN:B004JHYRAO