A Review of Nightfall

Nightfall by Isaac Asimov My rating: 4 of 5 stars Originally a fantastic short story written in 1941, the expanded novel, Nightfall, tells the story of the planet Kalgash, surrounded by six suns, with between two and four simultaneously in the sky, where one is always accustomed to light, and what happens to it when …

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A Review of Isaac Asimov: The Complete Stories Volume 1

The Complete Stories, Vol 1 by Isaac Asimov My rating: 4 of 5 stars This 600+ page book of short stories is a pretty good collection of Asimov's early 1950s work. Some of the stories are very, very good, such as "Nightfall," which I was delighted to find had been turned into a full novel …

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A Review of Foundation’s Edge

Foundation's Edge by Isaac Asimov My rating: 5 of 5 stars Spectacular! Finally, a Foundation book worthy of its reputation and legacy. I found the Foundation Trilogy to be quite mediocre, at best, and even gave the second one just one star and couldn’t even finish it, it was so bad. The writing was horrible …

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A Review of The Sirens of Titan

The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut My rating: 4 of 5 stars Aside from perhaps some of the existential novels I read in college which I really enjoyed as I felt as I could really relate to them, Vonnegut’s The Sirens of Titan has to be one of the saddest novels I have ever …

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A Review of Childhood’s End

Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke My rating: 5 of 5 stars Childhood's End is simply one of the most brilliant, excellent, and exciting science fiction novels I have ever read. To think that it was published in 1953, years before so much of this technology had even been thought of, is miraculous. One day …

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