The Sun Shines Bright (book) explained

The Sun Shines Bright
Author:	Isaac Asimov
Country:	United States
Language:	English
Series:	Fantasy & Science Fiction essays
Genre:	Science
Publisher:	Doubleday
Pub Date:	20 November 1981
Media Type:	print (Hardback and Paperback)
Pages:	250
Isbn:	0-385-17145-5
Preceded By:	The Road to Infinity
Followed By:	Counting the Eons

The Sun Shines Bright is a collection of seventeen nonfiction science essays by American writer and scientist Isaac Asimov. It was the fifteenth of a series of books collecting essays from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.^[1] It was first published by Doubleday & Company in 1981.

Contents

• The Sun
  1. Out, Damned Spot!
  2. The Sun Shines Bright
  3. The Noblest Metal of Them All
• The Stars
  4. How Little?
  5. Siriusly Speaking
  6. Below the Horizon
• The Planets
  7. Just Thirty Years
• The Moon
  8. A Long Day's Journey
  9. The Inconstant Moon
• The Elements
  10. The Useless Metal
  11. Neutrality!
  12. The Finger of God
• The Cell
  13. Clone, Clone of My Own
• The Scientists
  14. Alas, All Human
• The People
  15. The Unsecret Weapon
  16. More Crowded!
  17. Nice Guys Finish First!

Reception

Dave Langford reviewed The Sun Shines Bright for White Dwarf #44, and stated that "Each essay presents some interesting insight or viewpoint, usually scientific; most of them, alas, are padded and smothered with great wads of facts, statistics and numbers in general, the result being relatively dull."^[2]

Reviews

• Review by David Langford [as by Dave Langford] (1983) in Paperback Inferno, Volume 7, Number 1^[3]

External links

• Asimovonline.com

Notes and References

1. Book: Asimov, Isaac . Isaac Asimov . The Sun Shines Bright . Grafton . London . 1984 . 10 . 0-586-05841-9 .
2. Langford . Dave . David Langford . Critical Mass . . 44 . 14 . . August 1983 .
3. Web site: Title: The Sun Shines Bright .