Unfortunately, the science here also isn’t particularly interesting. This time, however, clarity isn’t enough to carry the story.Īs always with Asimov, the science is credible, though he stretches the point with Nemesis’ local lifeform. Asimov, in a brief foreword, makes a point that he tries to write clearly rather than poetically, and he’s always succeeded at that. He’s got a lot of the right elements in place – Eugenia, the troubled but brilliant teen Eugenia, her talented but outmatched mother Crile, the focused but malleable father Janus, the colony’s megalomanic director – but much of the dialogue and introspection seems more rote than inspired. It has his usual light-hearted, friendly style, but it lacks the spark of ingenuity that brought his Foundation and Robot stories to life.
This is one of the last of Isaac Asimov’s solo novels, and I’m sorry to say it’s not his best.
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