This is a book club episode. In it, Travis and Amanda will discuss and analyze the first half of The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov. You should expect full “spoilers,” discussions of rhetorical elements, and celebrations / critiques of style and substance.
From the cover: “Like most people left behind on an over-populated Earth, New York City police detective Elijah Baley had little love for either the arrogant Spacers or their robotic companions. But when a prominent Spacer is murdered under mysterious circumstances, Baley is ordered to the Outer Worlds to help track down the killer. Then Baley learned who his partner was: R. Daneel Olivaw. Worst of all was that the ‘R’ stood for robot—and his positronic partner was made in the image and likeness of the murder victim!”