The Caves of Steel

Introduction For our first book report I chose the book The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov. This book was set on earth far in the future, in around the year 3300. Most of the story takes place in either New York City, the largest city on Earth, or Space Town, the colony set up by inhabitants from one of the outer worlds. The two communities really show the different ways of life adapted by their …

…to do with the guilty person. In a way it is a happy ending because the Spacers decide they are not going to punish the criminal but use him to help them save the Earth. He will help persuade people to go colonize the other worlds so that the Earth will no longer have to support such a large population and so that the population will no longer have to live in caves of steel.