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Key facts
- Author
- Isaac Asimov
- Cover artist
- Ruth Ray
- Language
- English
- Series
- Robot series
- Genre
- Science fiction, mystery
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Publication date
- 1956 (magazine), January 1957 (book)
- Publication place
- United States
- Media type
- Print (hardback & paperback)
- Preceded by
- The Caves of Steel
- Followed by
- The Robots of Dawn , " Mirror Image "
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- literary work
- Author
- Isaac Asimov
- Genre
- detective fiction
- Country of origin
- United States
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Series
- Robot series
- Followed by
- The Robots of Dawn
- Follows
- The Caves of Steel
- Main subject
- domestic robot
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- publication date
- 1957-01-00
- language of work or name
- English language
- inception
- 1956-00-00
- title
- The Naked Sun
- form of creative work
- novel
- number of pages
- 226
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Encyclopedic overview
The Naked Sun is a science fiction novel by American writer Isaac Asimov, the second in his Robot series. Like its predecessor, The Caves of Steel, this is a whodunit story. It was first published in book form in 1957 after being serialized in Astounding Science Fiction between October and December 1956.
Plot
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “The Naked Sun” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.