The Sun Shines Bright

First edition
Author	Isaac Asimov
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Fantasy & Science Fiction essays
Genre	Science
Publisher	Doubleday
Publication date	20 November 1981
Media type	print (Hardback and Paperback)
Pages	250
ISBN	0-385-17145-5
Preceded by	The Road to Infinity
Followed by	Counting the Eons

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.

Contents

• The Sun
  1. Out, Damned Spot!
  2. The Sun Shines Bright
  3. The Noblest Metal of Them All
• The Stars
  4. How Little?
  5. Siriusly Speaking
  6. Below the Horizon
• The Planets
  7. Just Thirty Years
• The Moon
  8. A Long Day's Journey
  9. The Inconstant Moon
• The Elements
  10. The Useless Metal
  11. Neutrality!
  12. The Finger of God
• The Cell
  13. Clone, Clone of My Own
• The Scientists
  14. Alas, All Human
• The People
  15. The Unsecret Weapon
  16. More Crowded!
  17. 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]

Reviews

• Review by David Langford [as by Dave Langford] (1983) in Paperback Inferno, Volume 7, Number 1^[3]