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What’s the title of the book?

• intergalplan 6y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naked_Sun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naked_Sun Third (edit: second) "Robot" novel (human detective pairs up with a robot partner and solves crime mysteries). The world's written that way to provide a polar-opposite setting from earlier settings for that series (an incredibly tightly-packed and bustling city). In both cases, the natives of the worlds have adapted to their situation to the point of pathology—people from Earth (the city-world) tend toward agoraphobia, for instance. The whole setting is part of a sci-fi trend of settings that suppose Earth will become crushingly overcrowded with humans, leaving space as the only escape from that. EDIT: other poster is correct—I got the book wrong the first time (I had it as The Robots of Dawn, from the same series)
• Jtsummers 6y ago
  It's The Naked Sun. The people aren't averse to in-person contact due to disease (though that is their concern with people from Earth specifically). Nearly every one of the colony worlds (including the one in that book) have, in the books, essentially eradicated disease due to their opportunity to properly quarantine and treat it (versus the massive population still on Earth, you can't as easily wipe out a disease when you still have millions and billions of people living in megacities in close contact with each other). The particular world has a low population and people are spread out, so it's become the social custom to practice physical distancing to an extreme degree (think about the difference between personal space in different countries, then exaggerate it to an extreme).
  • munificent 6y ago
    Is this a sci-fi novel, or just a non-fiction account of Scandinavians in Wisconsin?