Stellar Dark Current

Author: Isaac Asimov
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Publish Date: 2006-03-16
Features: After years of interstellar warfare, Trantor has swept half the galaxy, leaving only the wealthy Saka to stand against it. The economic lifeline of Saka is its colony planet Floreana, where the rare plant cactus is grown. This plant has brought Saka wealth across the galaxy, and Trantor has long coveted it. Uruk, a man once mentally altered into a fool, suddenly declares that the end of Floreana is at hand, and other worlds in the galaxy will face the same fate. What secret is hidden in his mind? A series of murders—does this have anything to do with this earth-shattering secret? To save the entire galaxy, the two superpowers break the norm and cooperate. In their actions that are both united and in conflict, which side will be the ultimate victor?
The American writer Isaac Asimov is a world-class science fiction master. For many Chinese science fiction fans, Asimov's name has long been a household word. In 2004, with the Hollywood blockbuster I, Robot, adapted from Asimov's original work, screening widely in China, Asimov's name became familiar to the general public. However, the recent Asimov craze sweeping China was sparked by Tian Di Press. This time, they are releasing one of the translated editions of Asimov's "Empire" series science fiction novels—The Stars' Dark Current.
After years of interstellar warfare, Trantor has swept half the galaxy, leaving only the wealthy Saka to stand against it. The economic lifeline of Saka is its colony planet Floreana, where the rare plant cactus is grown. This plant has brought Saka wealth across the galaxy, and Trantor has long coveted it. Uruk, a man once mentally altered into a fool, suddenly declares that the end of Floreana is at hand, and other worlds in the galaxy will face the same fate. What secret is hidden in his mind? A series of murders—does this have anything to do with this earth-shattering secret? To save the entire galaxy, the two superpowers break the norm and cooperate. In their actions that are both united and in conflict, which side will be the ultimate victor?