"The Currents of Space"

The Currents of Space (Isaac Asimov)

I think I'm giving up on early period Asimov; It's a mess. This book is better than Pebble in the Sky, but that's not saying a whole lot. Reading it nowadays, it's serviceable, but the story is clunky and takes forever to get going (I bailed on page 75, at which point exposition was still getting dumped on me). Oh, and the main character having amnesia does the book no favors. (And! There's also there's some very clumsy parts that come off as racist to the modern reader where a black guy in space reflects on how people of different colors ended up settling on different planets). This may be a case of Seinfeld is Unfunny, and obviously Asimov got a lot better, but I really can't recommend these early novels.

Grade: C-