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unusual facts about The Naked Sun


Naked Sun

The Naked Sun, the second novel in Isaac Asimov's Robot series


David Starr, Space Ranger

As John H. Jenkins has noted, Asimov's novels typically are set either on Earth (Pebble in the Sky, The End of Eternity, The Caves of Steel), or on fictional extrasolar planets (The Currents of Space, The Naked Sun, the Foundation series).


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R. Daneel Olivaw

In the 1969 British television adaptation of The Naked Sun (an episode of the BBC2 series Out of the Unknown), Olivaw was played by David Collings.

Social presence theory

Social presence theory was developed by John Short, Ederyn Williams, and Bruce Christie, although its main thesis and major points would appear to have been first described twenty years previously in the 1956 Isaac Asimov novel: "The Naked Sun" .