"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."

September 2025

A Mirror on Virtuality, Scarcity, and Human Dependency Isaac Asimov’s The Naked Sun (1957) is the second novel in his Robots cycle, following The Caves of Steel and preceding The Robots of Dawn. These books occupy an important place in Asimov’s broader universe, where they form...