OK, regarding Asimov... he's the perfect example of a horrible writer with great concepts. Nothing stands out? Really?
His "3 laws of Robotics" are rather seminal (I, Robot). His entire fictional theme of Predictive Sociology in the Foundation Trilogy pretty much came true through Big Data and the internet. Asimov was very big to me, despite being functionally unable to write a realistic female character to save his life. Bradbury was probably next, in my life. Followed by Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" and (of course) Orwell's "1984", which arrived in America only some 17 years late. On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 9:32 PM, steve harley <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2015-02-14 13:08 , Steve Cottrell wrote: >> >> I always thought Asimov was overrated. I was a big fan of Larry Niven, >> Clarke, Farmer, Heinlein, and a good dozen more. > > > of the sci fi i read in my early teens, little stands out of Asimov's at > least, but i started reading his non-fiction books and got a far better > science education than my small town high school could give me > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- Life is too short to put up with bad bokeh. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
