Isaac Asimov appreciation thread
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Topic: Isaac Asimov appreciation thread
Posted By: The_Jester
Subject: Isaac Asimov appreciation thread
Date Posted: December 04 2010 at 14:59
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Name your favorite books by Isaac Asimov and if you want why you love them. ------------- La victoire est éphémère mais la gloire est éternelle! - Napoléon Bonaparte |
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Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: December 04 2010 at 15:29
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I believe you misquoted him in your sig. ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: The_Jester
Date Posted: December 04 2010 at 19:16
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Ah... yes. What's my error in this sig? ------------- La victoire est éphémère mais la gloire est éternelle! - Napoléon Bonaparte |
Posted By: clarke2001
Date Posted: December 05 2010 at 09:11
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I love Asimov. Among my favourites are The Robots of Dawn, perhaps the best of the 'Robots' series. Also, I love Nemesis and The Gods Themselves (an underrated masterpiece) neither of them belonging to 'Robots'/'Foundation' series. His short stories are also hiding some real gems (Bicentennial Man and The Last Question, anyone?) Of his non-fiction work, I love Asimov On Numbers - old-fashioned, charming, nerdy stuff right up my alley.  The man deserves a statue made of solid http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Endochronic_Properties_of_Resublimated_Thiotimoline - thiotimoline . ------------- |
Posted By: yanch
Date Posted: December 05 2010 at 09:32
One of my favorites. I love all the Robot and Foundation and Empire books. Truth is I like just about everything he wrote! 
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Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: December 05 2010 at 11:19
I haven't read the source work, but the second part of your quote doesn't appear to be a sentence. I just assumed you missed a verb it there or something. ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
The_Jester wrote:Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: December 05 2010 at 13:11
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: December 05 2010 at 13:18
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Love Asimov. My first major foray into SF..started with " Foundation" never looked back. When he resumed writing SF in the eighties to continue his FRoundation/ Robot series he was even better! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: December 05 2010 at 13:19
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..but this sin't a poll I might add. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: December 05 2010 at 13:20
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...so it isn't. I've moved it. I hope a robot wasn't harmed in the process. ------------- What? |
Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: December 05 2010 at 13:48
Yep, same here, certainly in terms of novels, although I loved Star Trek quite a few years before that ------------- Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: December 05 2010 at 13:49
Me too. But I was referring to books. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: December 05 2010 at 19:32
Thank you. ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: The_Jester
Date Posted: December 10 2010 at 21:19
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I knew I was about right, since I saw the interview. ------------- La victoire est éphémère mais la gloire est éternelle! - Napoléon Bonaparte |
Posted By: The_Jester
Date Posted: December 10 2010 at 21:21
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I read the Foundation serie and the Robot serie and I loved them both. I read a lot of novel by him in fact, you know he made 1000 publications. ------------- La victoire est éphémère mais la gloire est éternelle! - Napoléon Bonaparte |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: December 11 2010 at 04:18
^ you could at least change the sig so it made sense. 
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: December 11 2010 at 04:27
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Hmm, I've posted a lot in this thread and not said anything about Azimov.
I've read most of the robot stories and didn't like them much. I tried to read the Foundation trillogy, but failed.
John T Sladek did some good Azimov robot parodies that I thoroughly enjoyed (the Roderick series and Tik-Tok .... a sociopathic robot with defective azimov-circuits) - he also parodied Issac Azimov as "I Click As I Move". ------------- What? |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: December 14 2010 at 08:31
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Asimov, uh???
actually I'm not that big on him anymore
I used to like his novels about robots commandements, but I must say that it's lost some odf its flavour with the numbers of novels dealing with it
Never did like much the empire & Foundation series
What remains my fave novel is his one-shot novel called Nemesis, about a huge red star heading directly at our solar system, but not visible because hidden by the halo/cloud of a black hole, and will not be visible until way too late to avoid catastrophe....
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Posted By: The_Jester
Date Posted: January 10 2011 at 19:02
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I never read Nemesis. ------------- La victoire est éphémère mais la gloire est éternelle! - Napoléon Bonaparte |
Posted By: The_Jester
Date Posted: January 10 2011 at 19:03
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I finally changed my sig. ------------- La victoire est éphémère mais la gloire est éternelle! - Napoléon Bonaparte |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: January 10 2011 at 19:17
I've read a lot of Asimov -- especially when I was a teen (I loved the Foundation and Robot series). I think my favourite of his is "The Gods Themselves" as I found characterisation very engaging. His collaboration with Robert Silverberg for the "Nightfall" novel is another I like very much. ------------- Just a fanboy passin' through. |
Posted By: Soul Dreamer
Date Posted: January 11 2011 at 20:50
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My preferred Asimov books are the Foundation series. I don't like his Robot series that much. The Gods Themselves is great, just as Nemesis. Asimov is my fav. SF writer after Heinlein.
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Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: February 23 2011 at 06:02
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My brother, on hearing a rumour that the Foundation triology is about to be filmed, sent me some cassettes he had recorded (and indeed just about forgotten) made circa 1972 off BBC Radio 4's adaption of the triology (i.e. 8 episodes - 1 hour long each). Having spent ages transferring these recordings to the hard drive of my pc as MP3's and then attempting to remove tape hiss etc, I decided to find some artwork before burning a CD of my somewhat inadequate efforts. Guess what : I was directed to Amazon.uk where I discovered all 8 hours of episodes are downloadable as mp3's for £3-99 but only been there since last year - an amazing bargain and recommended to all. Tapes and my attempts to aural clean up the recordings have been abandoned, having already cost me more than £3-99, and only having a fraction of the sound quality found on the Amazon downloads. ------------- The best eclectic music on the Web,8-11pm BST/GMT THURS. CLICK ON: http://www.lborosu.org.uk/media/lcr/live.php - http://www.lborosu.org.uk/media/lcr/live.php Host by PA's Dick Heath. |
Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: February 24 2011 at 15:21
Just saw this thread. It was posted on Dec 4 last year. What escapes me is why we can spend so muuch time talking about nazis while there has been such a lack of interest in something more redeeming. His writing also influenced more than one prog song.  ------------- |
Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: March 10 2011 at 14:21
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I´ve only read short storys, cause that´s the only books I have from him. And my favorite shortstorys are The last question and The past is dead. I would say he isn´t always brilliant. Some stuff from him are just above avarage, but some other stuff is just beyond genius! ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?" 
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Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: March 16 2011 at 22:08
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Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare. Excellent book, made even more intriguing by Asimov's opinions. He takes his Shakespeare personally. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: Zargus
Date Posted: March 22 2011 at 10:27
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I started with the Foundation books, like many others i gues, i like him very much and have read many books, and im a fan, think i gona start read some books by him i have that i havent read yet, thx for this thread for remining me! :) ------------- 
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