The Naked Sun is a fast paced crime novel with a sprinkling of robot philosophy. Asimov is a superb futurist and his dreams of the possible future are so plausible that they are titillating.
Although the Naked Sun is a high thinking example of futurism: awash with descriptions of thousands of robots, and set in an alien environment where human instincts are thought bizarre and ungainly, this is foremost a human story. We are introduced to the outer world of Solaria through the eyes of someone not quite unlike ourselves - a future Earth detective called Baley - and though he interacts with people with a vastly different worldview each deductive moment, each piece of psychoanalysis and detection is human and relatable.
Perhaps that’s what leaves me unsatisfied, the Naked Sun is full of too many ‘gotchas!’ and human triumphs, too much the gratuitous revelation of a David winning against a Goliath. And though the worlds seem logical, perhaps even reasonable, I feel that Asimov’s function for what human characteristics and instincts hold is too strongly tied to what is required to keep the plot going.