As the son of the Rancher of Widemos, it seems that his removal is part of a covert coup.
This story begins on Earth with an assassination attempt on young student Biron Farrill, who finds himself drugged in his bedroom with a small radioactive bomb set to go off in his closet. The setting is that humans have spread throughout the galaxy, approximately 10 000 years in the future. Of the so-called Empire trilogy ( Pebble in the Sky (1950), The Stars, Like Dust (1951) and The Currents of Space (1952)) The Stars Like Dust is the ‘middle’ book, written after Pebble in the Sky but actually set chronologically in the galaxy before it. Like the more-famous Foundation series, it is set at a time when people are spread across the galaxy on hundreds of planets.
In terms of context, The Stars, Like Dust is one of the so-called “Galactic Empire” novels. As part of our ongoing commitment to reading older Science Fiction at SFFWorld, my latest read is one of Isaac Asimov’s earliest novels.
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