Nemesis
by Isaac Asimov · first published 1989
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Tearing its way through space on a collision course for Earth is Nemesis, a fiery ball of destruction, a dwarf star as red as the color of blood. Circling Nemesis is Rotor, an Earth colony whose occupants have cut themselves off from the anarchy and degeneration of an old and wasted world to form their own utopian existence. For them Rotor is a kind of Ark; one with hidden dangers that must be understood.
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Isaac Asimov is a must read for people who love Sci-Fi. Some of his books I loved: The Robot Series (The Caves of Steel, The Robots of Dawn etc.), The Foundation Series, Nemesis, the list goes on ...
on “Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days?” ↗Mostly unrelated, but Nemesis, one of Isaac Asimov's lesser known novels, was one I personally found a good read.
on “New Evidence That All Stars Are Born in Pairs” ↗Asimov wrote a novel about this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemesis_(Isaac_Asimov_novel) Not to be confused with the "Nemesis" by Clarke which is about something different apparently.
on “The Nemesis hypothesis” ↗Ironic that Asimov wrote a book about Nemesis. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemesis_(Isaac_Asimov_novel)
on “The Nemesis hypothesis” ↗You can find Isaac Asimov's Foundation on youtube and I think Nemesis is still up?
on “Ask: Free scifi audio books?” ↗…would be unlikely to even recognise them as intelligent. Stanislaw Lem's Solaris is a well known example, and the Pandora sequence by Frank Herbert was interesting. I never quite bought it though, and Nemesis by Isaac Asimov seemed to me to be a particularly lazy example that pretty much put me off the whole idea. (I'm a fan of Asimov, but this one didn't work for me). On the one had we can look at life on…
on “First Ever Image of a Multi-Planet System Around a Sun-Like Star Captured by ESO” ↗