I got this book because it seemed like a cool edition of The Foundation Trilogy. I later discovered that it glows in the dark when I turned the lights off to go to sleep.
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Cool! That book cover alone is better than the show 😂
I’m curious? is it the warm glow of atomic energy?
(or was it ‘the warm glow of radiation’?)
The series believes nuclear is the end all of energy sources, so I would say it’s probably radiation.
That was the context times they were in. Nuclear sciences were new, and miraculous; but they didn’t quite know how dangerous it was to be around, so Asimov envisioned it was safe to have tiny little nuclear reactors powering personal shields around one’s neck
But how do we know that the assumption is not them having perfect nuclear shields? To be fair, besides fusion, our most powerful source of energy is still nuclear. And fusion is not close to being practical yet.
Because of the comments about the “glow” of radiation and such like.
It’s commonly forgotten that humans can actually see X-rays- before people knew how dangerous it was, it was common for researchers to see it. The glow is literal- In low light with enough intensity, yiu can see a hazzy bluish glow when an X-ray source is on the other side of, say, a wooden door.
The thing is, at that level of intensity… well it’s very much not good for us
as someone who has had a really hard time getting into this series. Does it get better?
Foundation is basically all concept. If you do want to get into it, there’s a dated but still entertaining (IMO) radio drama version the BBC did in the early 70s. You can hear it here.
I personally have found them very easy to read. It doesn’t spend time on character development but it summarized the story well and moves on (jumps forward in time) before it gets boring.
That’s awesome, I want one!
Snagged the audiobook from my library this morning & started it via libby. Audiobook was an excellent idea, thank you!!
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That’s pretty cool! Where did you get it?
I got it from Ebay. I can’t seem to find an official source of it. It seems to be published by “Spectra”.
Absolutely expected this to be a weird makeup thread from the title. Don’t Lemmy while tired, kids.
I know it’s just the cover because the pages need to be exposed to light first in order to glow, but imagine if the entire book glowed so you could read it at night…
What happens when you turn the lights off for reasons other than sleeping?
I have the whole set of 7 books I’ve been reading through, do people mainly only focus on the first 3?
They just happened to be first and then the others were written later. I have the other books as well, but not as a set.
I had to take a break around book five. I just finished do androids dream of electric sheep, yesterday I started Neuromancer.
Neuromancer is so damn good! Basically the beginning of the cyberpunk genre.
I like the image. Makes you think about how Golan Trevize saw Galaxy in his mind
Where can I find this? Looks so cool!
So smart and inventive! Which publishing house is it?
I believe they are called “Spectra”.
Cheers! Never seen it here, I’ll check online.
