Three Asimovs that I gobbled up in such a hurry, I can't remember much of them. The first is an exploration of the exploitation of Florina a resource rich world by the colonizers from /Sarkm a middle power on the border of the growing and greedy Empire of Terantor. Things get moving as an amnesiac recovers his memories and organizes resistance. In the second, pebble in the sky, the sad state of a totally used up planet, our Earth from the POV of a modern, for 1950 tailor thrown forward a vast distance in time. This was Asimov's first comleted and published novel. The stars like Dust, a novel set even earlier in the history of trantor, a young rancher solves the mystery surrounding his father's death. ( )

After reading all 3, the sequence in which the stories are sorted in the book kind of makes sense. The stories are numbered by publication date, but read in this sequence gives a better ending for the collection.
#2 Stars Like Dust: His father is killed and he must rescue the rebellion, but everyone he trusts is plotting against him. All this in outer space, on different planets.
#3 The Currents of Space: His mind has been wiped because his study of "Nothing" reveals why some stars go nova. But he starts to remember.
#1 Pebble In the Sky: A freak accident sends him into the future and then they give him super mental powers before they try to kill him.
This is very comfortable, and very pleasant, sci-fi--just complex enough to wonder a) what's going on; b) just how stupid can one get; c) about Asimov's adolescent romance fantasies. ( )