Unironically everything everything I’ve been searching for in science fiction. Favorite novel or short story from him?
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asimov sucks. he's everything i'm NOT looking for in science fiction: tolkien in space
if you want that, just read fantasy, you homosexual
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Tolkien in space is the last thing I'd call Asimov. I don't know how you even come to that conclusion.
>Asimov enjoyed the writings of J. R. R. Tolkien, and used The Lord of the Rings as a plot point in a Black Widowers story, titled Nothing like Murder.[267] In the essay "All or Nothing" (for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Jan 1981), Asimov said that he admired Tolkien and that he had read The Lord of the Rings five times. (The feelings were mutual, with Tolkien saying that he had enjoyed Asimov's science fiction. This would make Asimov an exception to Tolkien's earlier claim that he rarely found "any modern books" that were interesting to him.)
Absolute morons on this board.
What are the similarities you two are referencing? Compare the robot detective noir novel with the hobbit ok. Assignment is due tomorrow.
>tolkien in space
You clearly haven't read either, moron.
>tolkien in space
What a braindead post, especially what I greentexted. Filtered.
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>Asimov enjoyed the writings of J. R. R. Tolkien, and used The Lord of the Rings as a plot point in a Black Widowers story, titled Nothing like Murder.[267] In the essay "All or Nothing" (for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Jan 1981), Asimov said that he admired Tolkien and that he had read The Lord of the Rings five times. (The feelings were mutual, with Tolkien saying that he had enjoyed Asimov's science fiction. This would make Asimov an exception to Tolkien's earlier claim that he rarely found "any modern books" that were interesting to him.)
Absolute morons on this board.
You just got filtered.
That doesn't say what you think it says.
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One of the best short stories ever in all fields: The Last Question
He has tons of kino nonfiction too that holds up great and with a kind of explanatory clarity sorely lacking today.
i admit i have not read his short stories. how are they?
Asimov was never a novel writer. His short stories are the only thing you should read.
I’ve been collecting his text books. It’s nice reading someone grounded in non-fiction.
What were you looking for in science fiction anyway
>everything I’ve been searching for
>searching
>top 3 writers in the genre of all time
op do you also struggle with finding the sun in the sky or differentiating your hands? how did you manage to make a thread? this is like saying you've been searching horror and found this guy "stephen king"; your search much have been timed in seconds, he's one of the most well known authors in the genre.
Asimov doesn’t get mentioned nearly as often as he used to. My guess is that op was scared away by redditors and good reads. For some reason Asimov filters a lot of brainlets.
I love horror but unironically have never read Stephen King
“The Last Question,” it was the only one of his that I’ve read. Some anon on the IQfy Friday night thread recommended it to me.
>everything everything I’ve been searching for in science fiction
>some midwit israelite
Damn, that's sad.
Back to your containment board you sad sack of shit for brains
I mean, he's factually correct.
The obvious connotation is that israelite=bad
>interesting ideas
>prose as dry as dry toast
It's a challenge to get through his books. Rewarding at the end, but it's a job getting there.
I would recommend listening to the 80's BBC radio drama of Foundation over reading it, because it actually injects a bit of life into it.
The Foundation Series is just self-insert fanfic about some guy who's so smart he knows everything that's going to happen ever and all the dumb army jocks have to do what he says and all the girls love him. Most "Golden Age" sci-fi and fantasy follows a similar formula to appeal to the beta male audience.
>Good tier
Foundation
>Great tier
Nightfall
>God tier
The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline
>elder God tier
Azazel
>Great tier
Foundation, Second Foundation, The Caves of Steel, The End of Eternity,
>Good tier
Foundation and Empire, Foundations Edge, The Bicentennial Man, The Currents of Space, The Gods Themselves
>Okay tier
Pebble in the Sky, The Stars like Dust
>Shit tier
Nemesis, The Robots of Dawn (super boring until the ending)
>Haven't read
Foundation and earth, robots and empire
Too many short stories to rank but the Martian way, In a good cause..., The wendell urth stories and of course the robot stories are my favorites.
The scenic Foundation And Earth. If you're already familiar with his fictional universe, it has the effect of an impossibly good road movie.
The Feeling of Power
lies
His mystery fiction.
He is the greatest deception for me.
Foundation first book began as epic utter ki’o and then it devolves into some boring ass story about a creepy mutant mind raping people.
Hack.
Are you moronic? Did you even finish Foundation and Empire?
Its because you came into the series expecting something completely different than what you got. asimov isn't tolkien. his books are almost always mysteries or focus on intrigue and characters double crossing each other. the comparison to tolkien is ridiculous and overblown.
The comparison is moronic.