Posted on Tuesday, September 29, 2009 11:20 AM
Finally finished Isaac Asimov’s legendary The Naked Sun yesterday. Asimov truly was a great humanist. But you know, having grown up with Data, it really bugged me that Bailey would act so rude towards R. Daneel Olivaw. Bailey is a bit of a Columbo-type of detective – he goes around annoying and irritating everybody until the perpetrator breaks down and admits his crimes in exasperation. I did like the metaphor of the naked sun for the need to break out of artificial and self-imposed barriers though.