Its clear writing and excellent suspense make this book a welcome addition to the science fiction lists.'-The New York Times 'This little novel will transport you back to a simpler time, when storylines we are jaded towards today were fresh and intoxicating, and that gosh-wow! sense of wonder covered science fiction like a layer of fine, gold dust.'Product DescriptionBiron Farrell was young and naïve, but he was growing up fast. Asimov plenty of opportunities to plot those involved and subtle twists for which he is known.

A small group of rebels wage a determined battle against the dictators, giving Mr. The scene of his new book, a rousing adventure story of the remote future, is the Galaxy, which, with its hundreds of inhabited planets has been taken over by a dictatorial race called, appropriately enough, the Tyranni. Chapters 6 and 8 also showed that magnetic field strengths in protostellar environments do not exceed 1 or a few kG.ReviewPraise for The Stars, Like Dust: 'Science fiction on the larger scale is Isaac Asimov's specialty. Synchrotron radiation from magnetic fields as high as 10 11G can be ruled out on the grounds that superdense degenerate matter, as found in neutron stars, is needed to carry such high field densities. Thus the energy has to come from a different pool, which is most likely rotational and magnetic energy inherited from pre-collapse cloud dynamics. The previous chapters already demonstrated that gravitational potentials in protostellar systems are by far too small to free enough energy (see Sect. In order to emit at short wavelengths, one either needs very high temperatures or very high magnetic field strengths or some mechanism to produce high-velocity electrons. High energy emission requires special circumstances and the responsible physical processes are often different from the ones at the origins of the optical and IR emissions. Models for gravitational collapse do not provide many clues about mechanisms for emissions at wavelengths much shorter than a few microns (see Chaps. At the time, these stars were investigated for their complex emission patterns at long wavelengths. X-rays from Orion had been detected with Uhuru, the first X-ray satellite launched in the early 1970s, but due to the lack of spatial resolving power a connection to young low-mass stars seemed far from likely. The discovery of bright X-ray emission from young low-mass stars in the wake of the launch of the EINSTEINX-ray observatory (see Chap.

From Dust To Stars by Norbert S. Schulz