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The Sun Shines Bright (book)
''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 *#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 *#The Useless Metal *#Neutrality! *#The Finger of God *The Cell *#Clone, Clone of My Own *The Scientists *#Alas, All Human *The People *#The Unsecret Weapon *#More Crowded! *#Nice Guys Finish First! Reception Dave Langford reviewed ''The Sun Shines Bright'' for ''White Dwarf A white dwarf is a stellar core remnant composed mostly of electron-degenerate matter. A white dwarf is very dense: its mass is comparable to the S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isaac Asimov
yi, יצחק אזימאװ , birth_date = , birth_place = Petrovichi, Russian SFSR , spouse = , relatives = , children = 2 , death_date = , death_place = Manhattan, New York City, U.S. , nationality = Russian (1920–1922)Soviet (1922–1928)American (1928–1992) , occupation = Writer, professor of biochemistry , years_active = 1939–1992 , genre = Science fiction ( hard SF, social SF), mystery, popular science , subject = Popular science, science textbooks, essays, history, literary criticism , education = Columbia University ( BA, MA, PhD) , movement = Golden Age of Science Fiction , module = , signature = Isaac Asimov signature.svg Isaac Asimov ( ; 1920 – April 6, 1992) was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. During his lifetime, Asimov was considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke. A prolific writer, he wrote or edited more than 500 book ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
