Thread: Other founders of the "Golden Age" of Sicience Fiction
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Old 06-22-2017, 12:04 AM   #45
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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward View Post
How would you classify Asimov's Caves Of Steel?
SF mystery.
It has the outward form of a mystery but the story is all about the Earth society and its attitudes towards automation.
Take out the city culture and what remains? A non-SF mystery.

Similarly NAKED SUN isn't about the murder mystery but rather about Solaria which bookends CAVES OF STEEL.

In both cases the mystery is a mechanism to move our POV character through the subject society.
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