The next Robot book is The Naked Sun. This takes place on one of the spacer worlds. Our human hero is re-united with his robot partner, and off they go to the strange world. There, there are 10,000 robots per human - and one of those humans has been murdered.
I found many of the concepts interesting, but ultimately the mystery falls a little flat. I didn't find the resolution very interesting. The idea of subverting the 3 laws was cool, and indeed used something I had thought of before - the idea that a robot may not knowingly harm a human. But in the end, the who-dunnit and the how he/she/it dunnit just seemed a little too easy.
I think I'm gonna start rating the books on a purely subjective level, so I'll give this one a 7.
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