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
 * How Little?
 * Siriusly Speaking
 * Below the Horizon
 * The Planets
 * Just Thirty Years
 * The Moon
 * A Long Day's Journey
 * The Inconstant Moon
 * The Elements
 * The Useless Metal
 * Neutrality!
 * The Finger of God
 * The Cell
 * Clone, Clone of My Own
 * The Scientists
 * Alas, All Human
 * The People
 * 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."

Reviews

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