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
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  • How Little?
  • #Siriusly Speaking
  • #Below the Horizon
  • The Planets
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  • Just Thirty Years
  • The Moon
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  • 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."

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