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Author
Index
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Isaac
Asimov |
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Title
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The |
The
Naked Sun |
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| Year |
1957 |
| Publisher |
Panther |
| ISBN |
0553293397 |
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Synopsis
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The
Solarians have
become Spacers
with a
civilization based
on robots instead
of slaves, while
the Earthmen have
burrowed deep into
the ground, roofed
over their cities,
and are terrified
of everything
outside their
caves of
steel. Now
the first murder
for two hundred
years has been
committed - but
who has killed
whom?
Into this
civilization is
plunged Elijah
Baley, a Terran
detective, whose
job is to find the
murderer, and to
act as an
investigator for
his
government.
Baley's arrival is
the beginning of a
long and
terror-laden
investigation
complicated by the
Solarians phobias. |
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Review
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The
Naked Sun is a
witty little novel
that is
unmistakably a
product of Isaac
Asimov. Not just
because of the
ubiquitous robots,
but because of the
familiar themes
that Asimov
explored over the
course of his
decades-long
career. On the
surface, the novel
is a
science-fiction
mystery story told
in the author's
usual enjoyable
style. But by the
time I reached the
end of the book, I
realized that
Asimov had been
doing something a
little cleverer
than his normal
runaround, and
upon reaching the
conclusion, I
immediately
flipped back and
started revisiting
some of the
earlier scenes to
catch what I had
missed the first
time around.
Andrew
McCaffrey |
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Credit:
NASA
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Dusty
Stellar
Nursery
Revealed
How
can
something
as big as
a star go
undetected?
The answer
is dust.
The
stellar
nursery
DR21 is
shrouded
in so much
space dust
that no
visible
light
escapes
it. By
seeing in
the
infrared,
NASA's
Spitzer
Space
Telescope
has
managed to
pull this
veil
aside. The
new
observations
reveal a
firework-like
display of
massive
stars
surrounded
by a
stormy
cloud of
gas and
dust. The
biggest
star is
estimated
to be
100,000
times as
bright as
our own
Sun. |
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NASA
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