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. 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
    2. How Little?
    3. Siriusly Speaking
    4. Below the Horizon
  • The Planets
    2. Just Thirty Years
  • The Moon
    2. A Long Day's Journey
    3. The Inconstant Moon
  • The Elements
    2. The Useless Metal
    3. Neutrality!
    4. The Finger of God
  • The Cell
    2. Clone, Clone of My Own
  • The Scientists
    2. Alas, All Human
  • The People
    2. The Unsecret Weapon
    3. More Crowded!
    4. 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."

Reviews

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

References

External links

  • Asimovonline.com



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