The Sun Shines Bright (book)

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The Sun Shines Bright
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First edition
Author Isaac Asimov
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Series Fantasy & Science Fiction essays
GenreScience
Publisher Doubleday
Publication date
20 November 1981
Media typeprint (Hardback and Paperback)
Pages250
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

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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]

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References

  1. Asimov, Isaac (1984). The Sun Shines Bright. London: Grafton. p. 10. ISBN   0-586-05841-9.
  2. Langford, Dave (August 1983). "Critical Mass". White Dwarf . No. 44. Games Workshop. p. 14.
  3. http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?102931