The Caves of Steel

A millennium into the future two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. 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.
Like most people left behind on an over-populated Earth, New York City police detective Elijah Baley had little 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.
The relationship between Life and his Spacer superiors, who distrusted all Earthmen, was strained from the start. Then he learned that they had assigned 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 and likeness of the murder victim!

Isaac Asimov (1920–1992)
was an American writer and professor of biochemistry, recognized as one of the “Big Three” science fiction authors of the 20th century. In 2026, he is increasingly cited as the “prophet of the AI age” due to his foundational work on robot ethics.
Born in Russia, his family emigrated to Brooklyn when he was three. He taught himself to read at age five and spent his youth working in his family’s candy stores, where he discovered science fiction pulp magazines.
Asimov wrote or edited more than 500 books. His works cover nine of the ten major categories of the Dewey Decimal System, ranging from science and history to Shakespeare and the Bible.