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Bantam A1731 (March, 1958). First Printing. Cover Art likely by Richard Powers

From the back cover:

 

Isaac Asimov is a master of Science Fiction as well as an established scientist. "The Naked Sun" is his startling novel of a universe menaced by its own machine-creations.

 

In "The Naked Sun" the basic laws of robotics as established by Asimov undergo a dangerous change. While Law I originally read "A robot may not injure a human being. . ." it now reads "A robot may do nothing that, to its knowledge, will harm a human being." The implications of this change are enormous on a planet like Solaria where there are only 20,000 men to 200,000,000 positronic robots.

 

It took Earthman Elijah Baley to point out how unsafe the universe would be until the true nature of the new robots was understood.

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