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4.0 out of 5 stars
Reading for ideas!, September 21, 2010
I am, in general, a reader of fact, not fiction, but the environment in one of the stories made me buy the book!
The story is called Strikebreaker, and it is about a world which is like an asteroid where they have basically hollowed it out and are living on the inside of it at many levels at 50 metres per level, which gives an awful lot of living space. Earlier I read a book called "Asimov on Astronomy", where Strikebreaker is mentioned due to a consideration about living inside a planet-/oid.
So, I ordered this book with the story and was hoping to get a thorough description of this world by Asimov. Well he has done the maths, but does not go into much detail about how it could be done. I was disappointed on that score.
However in this book there are so many very short stories that if a title grabs your interest most of them are not a long affair to go through, and there are quite a lot of stories with a good idea on how things could be done. This is a good feature of all those stories by Asimov. I do not read fiction, or science fiction, but Asimov being such a fantastic science writer, seems to have convinced me to check out some of his stories for ideas. This book confirms the conviction, even if I know I won't read it all.
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