{"id":1819,"date":"2010-03-08T07:45:24","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T14:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/?p=1819"},"modified":"2010-10-09T02:23:07","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T20:53:07","slug":"book-review-the-stars-like-dust-by-isaac-asimov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/2010\/book-reviews\/book-review-the-stars-like-dust-by-isaac-asimov.html\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: The Stars like Dust by Isaac Asimov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This work was Asimov&#8217;s third by publication date in the &#8220;Foundation Series&#8221; and some interesting concepts are introduced such as the &#8220;Hyperspace&#8221; idea. Nothing very special about the plot though and the last\u00a0 twist is <em>totally<\/em> corny. Asimov apparently thought so too and this was one of his least favorite novels. He was persuaded to write the corny ending by H. L. Gold and never forgave him for it!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1822\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1822\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0765319152?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=expressions09-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0765319152\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1822 \" title=\"The Stars like Dust by Isaac Asimov\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/The-Stars-like-Dust-by-Isaac-Asimov.jpg\" alt=\"The Stars like Dust by Isaac Asimov\" width=\"245\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/The-Stars-like-Dust-by-Isaac-Asimov.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/The-Stars-like-Dust-by-Isaac-Asimov-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1822\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Stars like Dust by Isaac Asimov<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But it&#8217;s quite a pleasant read nevertheless. The hero is a bit unbelievable as he alternates between extreme childishness and stunning intellect. But other aspects are nicely told with cool explorations in the Horse Head Nebula. Earth&#8217;s history has become very foggy at this point &#8211; a certain character puts forward the theory that the horse head nebula is so called not because some &#8220;Horace Head&#8221; was the first to explore it, but because it has the shape of an animal called a &#8220;Horse&#8221; when viewed from earth (which is actually the case.)<\/p>\n<p>It suddenly occurred to me though that science fiction writers have postulated so many cool advances in technology, not <em>one<\/em> of them ever dreamed up the Internet! What can it mean? That truth is stranger than fiction? That the Internet is truly one of the greatest advances of mankind?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve started reading the next book in Asimov&#8217;s series called &#8220;Foundation&#8221; and it starts off with an attempt to create a centralized repository of all the galaxy&#8217;s knowledge &#8211; in other words, the Internet itself! Only Asimov never imagined it to be what it is today.<\/p>\n<p>Getting nicely oriented with Asimov&#8217;s universe now&#8230; :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book Review of &#8220;The Stars like Dust&#8221; by Isaac Asimov<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,33],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-1819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-sa","tag-foundation-series"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Book Review: The Stars like Dust by Isaac Asimov<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Book Review of &quot;The Stars like Dust&quot; by Isaac Asimov\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, 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