Farrill is chasing rumors of a secret rebel base and a long-lost document that purports to outline a super-weapon. Loosely tied to the Galactic Empire phase of his grand chronology, this novel is about Biron Farrill, a young farmboy in the outskirts of the civilized galaxy who is thrust into a generational struggle between an oppressive authoritarian government and a scattered, grassroots rebellion. Somewhere between the most well-known cinematic space operas, Flash Gordon and Star Wars, rests The Stars, Like Dust, the closest I've thus encountered to Isaac Asimov writing pure fantasy. There is one subgenre that straddles that line almost perfectly: the 'space opera,' which is roughly defined as a straight-forward fantasy story set in a science-fiction universe. The line between science-fiction and fantasy is a fuzzy one. So sit back, relax, and enjoy some vintage, epic science-fiction from one of the grandmasters of the genre. This year, we'll be spending most of our time with the Robot and Empire series-tackled in a carefully chosen order-and next year, I plan to cover the entire Foundation series. Covering Asimov adequately over one summer proved to be a daunting task, especially with the current coronovirus situation, so I've had to split it into two. Heinlein, so now we get to the philosophical fantasist, Isaac Asimov. Clarke and the political futurist Robert A.

We've already covered the technologist Arthur C. Welcome to the first Summer of Asimov, where we'll be examining the third of the so-called Big Three Golden Age Science-Fiction authors. The Stars, Like Dust - Summer of Asimov I

The Stars, Like Dust by Isaac Asimov