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Title: The Currents of Space
Series: Galactic Empire #2
Authors: Isaac Asimov
Rating: 3 of 5 Stars
Genre: SF
Pages: 165
Words: 69K
Rik is a victim of soicumstances! Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk….
I’m never going to re-read this, you’re never going to read it and I just don’t care. While a step better than the previous Galactic Empire book, that is because Asimov left out the romance angle. While the absence of something can make the whole better, it doesn’t mean that what is left is actually better. I’ve said it before, and I’m saying it now and I’ll say it again in the future, Asimov couldn’t write a full length novel to save his life.
His strength was in the short story, in the “Idea”. His anthologies are great. Some of the best SF out there in my opinion. But these Galactic Empire novels, well, they’re already on the dust heaps of history and sinking fast.
On a funny side note, every time I see the title all I can think of is Currants of Space. And I imagine The California Raisins in space suits playing their instruments, hahahahaa.
Thankfully, there is only one more book to go and I’m already girding up my loins to do battle. Conan AND Tarzan, combined, couldn’t do more loin girding that I am doing. And with that wonderful image, I shall say my goodbyes.
★★★☆☆
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I liked the Foundation series.
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I did too.
These novels, not so much…
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These old book covers are quite a sight🙂
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I know, right? I can’t even figure out how this one relates to the story at all.
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Probably sex sells era, and you cannot have a space themed book without some woman in a tight suit
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I like the raisins! Had not heard of those.
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Ah, they were big back in the day. Pepperidge Farms remembers.
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HAha Brilliant! Cheers Alex.
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His greatest strength is his eyebrows. Fact!
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Yeah, now that you mention it, I think you are correct…
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My attempt at re-reading the Foundation series, a few years back, did not last long “thanks” to Asimov’s plodding prose, and made me wonder at how much I’ve changed as a reader over the decades…
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I do feel that a lot of sff was, and continues to be, aimed at the tween, teen and ya crowd. They are much more forgiving 🙂
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The California Raisins were a very underrated group. Ahead of their time.
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The funny part is that this “full-length” novel is only 165 pages. With today’s standards, this is still a short story in the SFF genre hahahahaha
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It is quite interesting to see how SF has changed over the decades, isn’t it? It really hit its stride with the short story and magazines and now, well, we are where we are today 🙂
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