STARS LIKE DUST

This is a 2009 edition of a novel that was originally published in 1951. This edition is a well-made paperback, published in America by Tom Doherty Associates. Very good to have it available on Amazon India.According to the internal, fictional, chronology, “The Stars, Like Dust” forms the first book of the three-book Empire series by the great American sci-fi writer, Isaac Asimov. In the empire series, mankind has spread over multiple planets around the Galaxy. There are various kingdoms across the Galaxy and a Galactic Empire is slowly taking shape. (An empire in which the events of Asimov’s seven-volume Foundation series subsequently take place.)Like any sci-fi written by Asimov, the novel is entertaining and enjoyable. But it is not Asimov’s best work. In fact, Asimov himself thought it to be his worst work. I think there is just one cringeworthy bit in there that makes it bad; the rest of it is fantastic as usual.Biron Farrill, a student studying in a university on Earth, is the son of the king of the planet Widemos (where a king are called “rancher”). One day Farrill hears that his father has been murdered, probably by the despotic rulers of a planet called Tyrann, …

I had purchased a few Asimov books which were printed and distributed by Bantam Spectra and the quality was very poor. This one however and the others in its series, .i.e The Currents of Space & Pebble in the Sky are printed by somebody else and the books are very good. A bit on the higher side as far as price is concerned, considering they are just about 230 pages or so, but worth it, since it's Asimov and the stories are eternal.

Incomparable. Timeless Asimov!

Great read.

For me, this is one of Asimov's best long stories. I first read it over 40 years ago and have returned to it a few times since along with The End of Eternity which I read around the same time. Asimov was adept in his stories at creating entire societies and introducing interesting sci-fi technologies into them. The adventure-detective story nature of this novel is engaging. My original paperback with its long-detached cover still resides in a cupboard at our house, but it has been nice through Amazon to get it back into my library proper, this time in hardback.

I was trying to go through all books of the Robots and Empire series only to be completely let down by this one disappointing book. It's so bad that I gave up on continuing reading the series.

I read this book when I was in my twenties, now in my sixties, and it's just as enjoyable as the rest of the Asimov books I've just bought from Amazon

Bought to add to my bookcase, read many years ago before I moved and gave away most of my books.

Excellent