- Author:
- Isaac Asimov (author)
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Orb Publications
- Category:
- Science fiction
- Series:
- Empire (1/3)
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Original publication year:
- 1951
- ISBN:
- 978-0-7653-1915-9
- Pages:
- 235
- Synopsis:
Biron Farrill wakes up in his dorm room in the University of Earth to discover a radiation bomb. He then has to quickly escape and figure out who the assassin is.
The title is taken from a (fictional, to my best knowledge) poem:
"The stars, like dust, encircle me
In living mists of light;
And all of space I seem to see
In one vast burst of sight."- Table of Contents:
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- 1. The Bedroom Murmured
- 2. The Net Across Space
- 3. Chance and the Wrist Watch
- 4. Free?
- 5. Uneasy Lies the Head
- 6. That Wears a Crown
- 7. Musician of the Mind
- 8. A Lady's Skirts
- 9. And an Overlord's Trousers
- 10. Maybe!
- 11. And Maybe Not!
- 12. The Autarch Comes
- 13. The Autarch Remains
- 14. The Autarch Leaves
- 15. The Hole in Space
- 16. Hounds!
- 17. And Hares!
- 18. Out of the Haws of Defeat!
- 19. Defeat!
- 20. Where?
- 21. Here?
- 22. There!
- Afterword
- About the Author