The Sun Shines Bright (book)
{{short description|Book by Isaac Asimov}}
{{One source|date=November 2020}}
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| country = United States
| language = English
| series = Fantasy & Science Fiction essays
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| genre = Science
| publisher = Doubleday
| pub_date = 20 November 1981
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| media_type = print (Hardback and Paperback)
| pages = 250
| isbn = 0-385-17145-5
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| preceded_by = The Road to Infinity
| followed_by = Counting the Eons
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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.{{cite book |last=Asimov |first=Isaac |author-link=Isaac Asimov |title=The Sun Shines Bright |publisher=Grafton |location=London |year=1984 |page=10 |isbn=0-586-05841-9 }} It was first published by Doubleday & Company in 1981.
Contents
- The Sun
- #Out, Damned Spot!
- #The Sun Shines Bright
- #The Noblest Metal of Them All
- The Stars
- #
- How Little?
- #Siriusly Speaking
- #Below the Horizon
- The Planets
- #
- Just Thirty Years
- The Moon
- #
- A Long Day's Journey
- #The Inconstant Moon
- The Elements
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- The Useless Metal
- #Neutrality!
- #The Finger of God
- The Cell
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- Clone, Clone of My Own
- The Scientists
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- Alas, All Human
- The People
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- The Unsecret Weapon
- #More Crowded!
- #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."{{cite magazine | last =Langford | first =Dave | author-link =David Langford | title =Critical Mass |magazine=White Dwarf |issue=44 |page=14 | publisher =Games Workshop |date=August 1983 }}
Reviews
- Review by David Langford [as by Dave Langford] (1983) in Paperback Inferno, Volume 7, Number 1{{cite web | url=http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?102931 | title=Title: The Sun Shines Bright }}
References
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External links
- [http://www.asimovonline.com/oldsite/Essays/f_and_sf_essays.html Asimovonline.com]
{{Asimov essay collections}}
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Category:Essay collections by Isaac Asimov
Category:Works originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
Category:Doubleday (publisher) books
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