The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov (1973)

The Gods Themselves

by Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov's favorite of his own works, The Gods Themselves won the 1973 Hugo award for best novel. This is a story in three parts about a technology which allows free energy by exchanging matter between universes with different laws of nature. The conflict of the story is that this exchange of matter also exchanges natural laws which may cause the sun to explode.

This leads into the quote that the title alludes to which reads in full "Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain" because no one is willing to give up the huge advantages of free energy even when they learn it may destroy the earth.

Tuesday

Mar152011

The Gods Themselves Covers

Tuesday, March 15, 2011 at 3:28AM

The covers of The Gods Themselves are strange. I can understand this as the images of this book are either not that interesting or almost impossible, but some of these are on the verge of bizzare.

Is this in 3D or do they just want to give people headaches when they look at this cover.

I just finished reading this book and I really don't have any idea what the image on this next cover is. So far as I remember there are no air battles in The Gods themselves though technically I suppose there are space shuttles of some type as there are people on the moon.