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.[1] It was first published by Doubleday & Company in 1981.

The Sun Shines Bright
First edition
AuthorIsaac Asimov
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SeriesFantasy & Science Fiction essays
GenreScience
PublisherDoubleday
Publication date
20 November 1981
Media typeprint (Hardback and Paperback)
Pages250
ISBN0-385-17145-5
Preceded byThe Road to Infinity 
Followed byCounting the Eons 

Contents
  • The Sun
    1. Out, Damned Spot!
    2. The Sun Shines Bright
    3. The Noblest Metal of Them All
  • The Stars
    1. How Little?
    2. Siriusly Speaking
    3. Below the Horizon
  • The Planets
    1. Just Thirty Years
  • The Moon
    1. A Long Day's Journey
    2. The Inconstant Moon
  • The Elements
    1. The Useless Metal
    2. Neutrality!
    3. The Finger of God
  • The Cell
    1. Clone, Clone of My Own
  • The Scientists
    1. Alas, All Human
  • The People
    1. The Unsecret Weapon
    2. More Crowded!
    3. 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]

gollark: The obvious solution is to replace the problematic nerves with WiFi.
gollark: I know that that's not really the right definition and that advantages like hiring 1259012758 very smart people to build models and HFT still work, but I think it's *basically* true.
gollark: I feel like we've argued about this before and you didn't say anything very convincing.
gollark: If they could do consistently *worse* than the market than their thing would actually be worth a lot.
gollark: The positions of the planets are very public.

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.


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