I realy think that Asimov shines in his 'robot' novels. My favorit was Robots of Dawn, but here lately I've read his short stories. I can't belive it but I think the Asimov is best in his short storie complations. I've read i, Robot and Asimov Mystorys and I'm looking for more. I just can't get enouhg of his short stories!
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Re: His Best
Tue, September 14, 2004 - 1:13 PMI agree. I, robot was the first book I read by him, and I just couldn't put it down, his short stories are incredible! I'm finishing the robot series now...it's good, but a little slow in places.
I've heard so many kudos for the foundation series, can't wait to get started on it next... -
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Tue, September 14, 2004 - 1:24 PMThe Foundation series was voted the best SF series of all time at one point in the 60s. The original books weren't really a trilogy, but three books made up of short stories originally published in Astounding in the 40s.
Good stuff and to many people one of the seminal series in all of SF. -
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Tue, October 5, 2004 - 11:52 AMReally? Are you sure it wasn't *serialized* in Astounding? They sure read like novels. -
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Tue, October 5, 2004 - 1:45 PMNot sure what you mean. The trilogy, for the most part, ais just a series of disconnected stories that happened to be bundled and sold as a trilogy.
From en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_Series
"The series started as a series of nine short stories, eight of which were published in Astounding Science Fiction magazine (between May 1942 and January 1950) and a ninth which was written a few years later when the series was first published in book form. The stories vary in length from about 7,000 words to about 50,000 words. The early stories are very closely based on Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Asimov said he did "a little bit of cribbin' from the works of Edward Gibbon" when describing the influence of that work on the Trilogy).
These were then collected and published as Foundation, Foundation and Empire, and Second Foundation in the early 1950s by Gnome Press. These three books are thus known collectively as The Foundation Trilogy" -
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Sun, November 28, 2004 - 8:31 AMAbsolutely his best single novel, and in his writings, probably the one he was most proud of. It also had that Asimov rarity - alien sex! -
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Thu, June 16, 2005 - 11:02 AMwas that the one with the parallel earth as a power source?
I think that was the second book I read, after "i, robot". It is tough to pick a fave. The foundation series has been on my mind a lot lately. When describing the star wars films I usually mistakenly refer to "courisant" as "trantor"... -
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Fri, September 16, 2005 - 6:21 AMShort story -"The last question"
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Sat, September 17, 2005 - 12:48 AMWhat book can I find that in? I want to read it. I really need some more Asimov. -
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Sat, September 17, 2005 - 4:33 AMI think I read it in Asimov Gold... that or the second Gold collection book. Definitely one of his best questions. Though it should really be in The Complete Robot, since the whole story revolves around his "Multivac"
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Re: His Best
Thu, December 22, 2005 - 11:17 PMThe best Asimov?
The first three Foundation books.
The past and present meet and mingle - ancient Rome, modern America, and the Galactic Empire - in Foundation in a sci-fi kind of glass bead game. Asimov reveals himself as the Magister Ludi, the master of the game, which was the greatest science fiction could at that time be. It is Bach in a book. It is Gibbon in fiction.
And it has serious shortcomings. It is no use criticising him and Foundation for lacking a consciousness which he cannot have had, because we could not have had the awareness of his shortfalls in Foundation were it not for him having carried us so far along.
Paul Bard.
www.gaiawriter.blogspot.com
