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==Reception== Reviewer [[Groff Conklin]] praised the novel for the way Asimov "combines his interest in robotics with his consuming preoccupation with the sociology of a technology-mad, bureaucratically tethered world of tomorrow."<ref>"Galaxy's 5 Star Shelf", ''[[Galaxy Science Fiction]]'', July 1954, p. 98</ref> [[Anthony Boucher|Boucher]] and [[J. Francis McComas|McComas]] praised ''The Caves of Steel'' as "Asimov's best long work to date", saying that it was "the most successful attempt yet to combine" the detective and science fiction novel.<ref>"Recommended Reading," ''[[The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction|F&SF]]'', May 1954, p. 88.</ref> [[P. Schuyler Miller]] called it "as honest a combination of science fiction and detection as we've seen."<ref>"The Reference Library", ''[[Analog Science Fiction and Fact|Astounding Science Fiction]]'', November 1954, p. 150</ref> Villiers Gerson of ''[[The New York Times]]'' wrote: "Here is an unusually exciting and engrossing detective story set in a science fictional background convincingly worked out."<ref>{{cite journal |last=Gerson |first=Villiers |date=March 7, 1954 |title=Spacers |journal=[[The New York Times]] |page=Section 7, p. 16 }}</ref> Apart from being nominated in 2004 for a [[Hugo Award for Best Novel#Retro Hugos|retroactive Hugo Award for Best Novel]] for 1954,<ref>[http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/1954-retro-hugo-awards/ 1954 Retro-Hugo Awards] at thehugoawards.org (retrieved 24 April 2016).</ref> more contemporaneously ''The Caves of Steel'' was voted the 30th Best All-Time Novel in the 1975 Locus Poll,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://locusmag.com/1998/Books/75alltime.html|title=Locus Poll Best All-time Novel Results: 1975, novels|work=[[Locus (magazine)|Locus]]|access-date=August 10, 2024}}</ref> and the 33rd Best All-Time SF Novel in the 1987 Locus Poll.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://locusmag.com/1998/Books/87alltimesf.html|title=Locus Poll Best All-time Novel Results: 1987, sf novels|work=[[Locus (magazine)|Locus]]|access-date=August 10, 2024}}</ref>
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