The Currents Of Space

This is Volume 2 in the three-volume Empire series of novels by Isaac Asimov. It was first published in 1952; this paperback edition is a 2009 reprint by Tom Doherty’s well-known sci-fi publishing company in New York. I am very glad that this book is sold by Amazon India.What else is there to say? If you like English-language science fiction, the Empire series has to be on your must-read list! In these three novels, Asimov sets up the grand stage of a Galactic Empire upon which the events of his epic seven-volume Foundation series takes place.In “The Currents of Space”, the story is set on a planet called Florina, which is controlled by people living on another planet called Sark. The Florinian people do not have much freedoms; all they do is to harvest a crop called kyrt for the Sarkites, who are extremely wealthy because kyrt is extremely valuable as a fabric material and it doesn't grow anywhere else in the Galaxy. Well, one day, a strange, naked, mentally-retarded man is found lying by a road on Florina …

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Currents of Spaceby Isaac AsimovGenre: Space opera/crime/thrillerAudience: Teenage and aboveRating: 5 starsReviewA man in a village on a slave planet, thought to be an idiot, turns out to be a space scientist whose mind was wiped because of the frightening news he was carrying. The rest of the story comprises twists and turns as his memory begins to return and he is befriended, rescued, and makes his escape to reveal what he knows, to the people who matter, on another planet.There are many layers to the convoluted plot of this book. There are plots within the plot. Nevertheless, at no time does the story become so complex that the reader is exasperated; rather, the reader is drawn further and further into the story with new discoveries.Not till the very end does the whole truth emerge, and the surprises do not stop until the last sentence of the book.This book is well-written and ranks high in Asimov's prolific output. It is a book well worth reading more than once.