Anyone Read Sci-Fi?

1. 2020-12-14 at 6:15 PM UTC

   #81
   

   Lanny Bird of Courage

   Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson A big vote up for Asimov
   
   EDIT: UNTHANKED (I missed the "not" when I read it.

   
   I mean I liked him a lot when I was in highschool, I read just about every robot story he ever wrote and two of his three autobiographies so I'm definitely not saying he's unreadable. But like the dude can't write a three dimensional character to save his life and his prose is less than amazing. The robots stories in particular are really formulaic, "robot follows instructions in a way that is unexpected, flat human character attempts to reckon with and finally resolves the paradoxical situation that led to a misbehaving robot, the end". The guy had a huge and self professed hardon for Agatha Christie but never seemed to really get how her fiction operates.
2. 2020-12-14 at 6:18 PM UTC

   #82
   Jiggaboo_Johnson Black Hole

   Originally posted by Lanny I mean I liked him a lot when I was in highschool, I read just about every robot story he ever wrote and two of his three autobiographies so I'm definitely not saying he's unreadable. But like the dude can't write a three dimensional character to save his life and his prose is less than amazing. The robots stories in particular are really formulaic, "robot follows instructions in a way that is unexpected, flat human character attempts to reckon with and finally resolves the paradoxical situation that led to a misbehaving robot, the end". The guy had a huge and self professed hardon for Agatha Christie but never seemed to really get how her fiction operates.

   
   I preferred his later work, Nightfall (co wrote) and Nemises are great.
3. 2020-12-14 at 10:38 PM UTC

   #83
   

   vindicktive vinny Black Hole

   Originally posted by Lanny I mean I liked him a lot when I was in highschool, I read just about every robot story he ever wrote and two of his three autobiographies so I'm definitely not saying he's unreadable. But like the dude can't write a three dimensional character to save his life and his prose is less than amazing. The robots stories in particular are really formulaic, "robot follows instructions in a way that is unexpected, flat human character attempts to reckon with and finally resolves the paradoxical situation that led to a misbehaving robot, the end". The guy had a huge and self professed hardon for Agatha Christie but never seemed to really get how her fiction operates.

   
   was his writings originally in english or were they translated.
4. 2020-12-15 at 12:51 AM UTC

   #84
   

   Lanny Bird of Courage

   Originally posted by vindicktive vinny was his writings originally in english or were they translated.

   
   Originally English, his parents were Russian jedis I believe but AFAIK he never learned Russian or anything else.
5. 2020-12-15 at 1:24 AM UTC

   #85
   

   -SpectraL coward [the spuriously bluish-lilac bushman]
   http://www.asimovonline.com/oldsite/asimov_titles.html
6. 2020-12-15 at 12:55 PM UTC

   #86
   

   vindicktive vinny Black Hole

   Originally posted by Lanny Originally English, his parents were Russian jedis I believe but AFAIK he never learned Russian or anything else.

   
   o, i thot that sounded like the way russian arrange their words.