As a matter of fact, I am reading another Isaac Asimov book.
Actually two at the moment, as Joe and I are reading Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids (having finished David Starr, Space Ranger), and I am 29 pages into The Caves of Steel. I read this one a long time ago (talking 50 years plus) and actually wasn't intending to re-read it, but I'd just finished The Robots of Dawn and Robots and Empire, and I decided that I needed a little more R. Daneel Olivaw.
And yes, The Naked Sun will follow.
Anyway...here's a bit that caught my eye:
"...the Medievalist movement expanded along with the declassification process. Men grew desperate and the border between bitter frustration and wild destruction is sometimes easily crossed.
"At this moment, minutes could be separating the pent-up hostility of the crowd from a flashing orgy of blood and smash."
Asimov's Medievalists are people who object to the use of robots in the service sector, and who see them as a threat to their own livelihood. Kind of like white folks who are afraid that non-white folks are going to "replace" them, ennit?
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