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    Posted: December 04 2010 at 14:59
Name your favorite books by Isaac Asimov and if you want why you love them.
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Points: 15784 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 04 2010 at 15:29
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. "
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Points: 741 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 04 2010 at 19:16
Ah... yes. What's my error in this sig?
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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.Heart

The man deserves a statue made of solid thiotimoline.
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Points: 3247 		Direct Link To This Post 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! LOL
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Points: 15784 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 05 2010 at 11:19
Originally posted by The_Jester The_Jester wrote:

Ah... yes. What's my error in this sig?

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. "
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Originally posted by wikipedia wikipedia wrote:

"David Frost" interview program, August 1969. This is the show in which Frost asked Asimov if he had ever tried to find God and, after some initial evasion, Asimov answered, "God is much more intelligent than I—let him try to find me."
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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!
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Points: 32995 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 05 2010 at 13:19
..but this sin't a poll I might add.
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...so it isn't. I've moved it. I hope a robot wasn't harmed in the process.
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Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

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!


Yep, same here, certainly in terms of novels, although I loved Star Trek quite a few years before thatLOL
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Originally posted by lazland lazland wrote:

Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

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!


Yep, same here, certainly in terms of novels, although I loved Star Trek quite a few years before thatLOL

Me too. But I was referring to books. 
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Points: 15784 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 05 2010 at 19:32
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by wikipedia wikipedia wrote:

"David Frost" interview program, August 1969. This is the show in which Frost asked Asimov if he had ever tried to find God and, after some initial evasion, Asimov answered, "God is much more intelligent than I—let him try to find me."

Thank you.
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Points: 741 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 10 2010 at 21:19
I knew I was about right, since I saw the interview.
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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.
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 11 2010 at 04:18
^ you could at least change the sig so it made sense. Wink
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 11 2010 at 04:27
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".
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Points: 20382 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 14 2010 at 08:31
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....
 
 
 
 
let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
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Points: 741 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 10 2011 at 19:02
I never read Nemesis.
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Points: 741 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 10 2011 at 19:03
I finally changed my sig.
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