Asimov novels are 90% stilted expository dialogue punctuated by tepid action. Yet they somehow work. Why? I think sheer conceptual ambition.
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Replying to @vgr
They defined a genre. Similar to Doc Smith earlier. As space opera? It stinks. But it was the first fumblings towards greatness
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Replying to @craig_montuori
It doesn't stink! Psychohistory is still one of the finest operatic plot devices ever!
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Replying to @vgr
I still wish Asimov stayed with the vignette approach from Foundation. It makes sense that The Plan failed over 1000 years... but still
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Replying to @craig_montuori
Hmm. I kinda liked how his style matured. The last-written books (Forward the Foundation and Robots and Empire) are my favorites.
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Replying to @vgr
Interesting. I loved R&E growing up. It tied everything together. I hated it rereading it. It tied everything together.
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Replying to @craig_montuori
(rereading pebble in the sky now for the second time and very satisfying to know how it fits)
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Replying to @vgr
Ah, those three hidden gems. Currents of Space somehow really spoke to me
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Replying to @craig_montuori
Of course. That one I only read for the first time last year. Very cool indeed.
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Replying to @vgr
Unlike Clarke, Asimov could actually write longer form. But still, ah, his Susan Calvin shorts. Such fun
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Never did like Clarke though I read most of his stuff. Felt too much like science lectures in disguise.
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Replying to @vgr
Read Clarke's Tales from the White Harte. They're sufficiently irreverent and peppy
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