Authentic Science Fiction Monthly, Issue 45 — page 136: what you’re looking at

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FICTION Yet another ffirst class novel from the prolific pen of Isaac Asimov is CAVES OF STEEL (Doubleday, 575 Madi- son Avenue, New York, 22, U.S.A. $2.95). It’s a murder story of a most unusual kind. Set in the remote future, when New York lies deep beneath a steel canopy and functions as a communal unit in the truest sense of the word, the story follows the adventures of a policeman in tracking down the murderer of an Earthman by the Spacers. These latter are descendants of early emigrants from Earth, who had their own ideas about how to live. One of their ideas is that robots should be a part of civilised communities. And a robot is assigned to work with the policeman. Asimov, of course, knows robots well. And this 135 tale does nothing to change the views he has already put forward about them—that the main difference between men and robots is that robots are fundamentally decent. Highly recommended. Weidenfeld & Nicholson (7 Cork Street, London, W.1) add two more titles to their science fiction bookshelf with THE TITAN AND OTHER Stories by P. Schuyler Miller and AHEAD OF TIME by Henry Kuttner, both at 9s. 6d. These are both anthologies of the respective author’s stories. Of the two, AHEAD OF TIME is undoubtedly higher in quality, though TITAN is certainly worth reading. Perhaps the difference could be indicated by saying that Kuttner’s book requires the reader to do a certain amount of thinking, conmicloooks.com