isaac asimov

Having recently re-read "Caves Of Steel" & "Naked Sun", and currently half way through "Robots of Dawn" I have to stay that I find Plainclothesman C-7 Mr Bailey a rather dislikeable figure! More so the first two books where he come across as being arrogant, aloof, short-tempered, hypocritical...

...are you currently reading/have just completed? Well, I've been away from my Asimov library for a good few years regrettably, but just recently I felt very much inclined to re-read the Robot books again. So for the last few days I have read and completed:- Caves Of Steel Naked Sun and am...

Hi guys, I've read a "few" sience fiction stories in my time... but now wish to join the ranks, of the hard core fans and give Asimov's Robot/Empire & foundations series a good going over. I note there seems to be two seperate opinions. Either go the DATE system or Order of Published. I think...

I've read as much of Asimov as I could find (though definitely not half - he wrote too many books that aren't in print, or even in the library) - and I like Heinlein and Clarke as very good second-bests. Are there any other authors that write like they did today? I am very prejudiced...

Dr. Susan Calvin is a central character in many of Asimov's Robot stories. US Robots and Mechanical Men's robopsychologist, she can seem rather robot-like herself at times. Some stories, though, show her in a more human light, mainly, I think, Liar! and Lenny. Personally, I quite like her. I...

Throughout the sixties, the "good doctor" wrote a series of science fact articles for "Analog" magazine. These covered a wide range of different sciences, mathematics, new dicoveries; I remember particularly "not as we know it" (about possible alternative biochemistries) and the first...

i have to ask why is Issac Asimov, one of the founding fathers of scifi, not in the authors forum?? i am discraced and i was wanting to comment on how good his books are as well

Hi everyone, I've tried about seventy-five Google searches, and I can't discover the name of this book that I read nearly 10 years ago (And I'm 20 now..) All I remember of it (Which is quite a lot, for the time that's passed since then) is that it starts with a robot landing on a planet, sent...

Hello, I'm new here, so I hope this is the right place to ask this question. I need to find a book that I read a really long time ago and I can't remember the name anymore. It's from Isaac Asimov and basically it was about a guy, who is sent to a remote planet to investigate the loss of a space...

In 1942, Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics were published in a story titled Runaround. Now, more than 60 years later, does there seem to be anything missing from the laws? would you change anything? perhaps a fourth law? 1. A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a...

hi, i just read the original 3 books of the series and i must say i loved them. i have one question regarding the plot however. i think i missed it or something. i don't understand why the first foundation wanted to destroy the second foundation. just because a millenia later the...

Please start whenever you'd like - I'm not trying to rush anyone - I just wanted to get the thread posted so that whenever anyone feels like posting their thoughts, ideas, questions or whatnot regarding the work, they could do so.

Clearly a person who knows which side her bread is buttered: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/a/2004/07/25/PKGG47P63L1.DTL&type=movies

http://www.irobotmovie.com/ Anyone got any news?

Hi, I'm new around here, and had a question about this series. What novels are included in the Robot series, and what order should I go about reading them? I have I, Robot already, and that is the very next book on my list, but where do I go from there. I am pretty clueless, so feel free to...

Hi all, I've just finished off an Asimov related web site I call "The Asimov Vault". Since there are so many fans here, I'd like if people could check the content of my site. Suggestions welcome also! The url is: http://asimovault.cjb.net or...

I don't see why not. Here's the info from http://www.scifi.com: "Asimov Stamp Urged Gordon Van Gelder, editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, is urging fans to come together in a letter-writing campaign to get legendary SF author Isaac Asimov on a U.S. postage stamp. Van Gelder...

Someone pass me my copy of Fahrenheit 451... the article: http://woodtv.com/Global/story.asp?s=%20%201645394 Granted that the magazine may be better suited for an older (college) readership. But, I find the article's tone of advocacy while refusing to put the magazine in a fair...

Anyone read Isaac Asimov's Foundation series? If so, what did you think? I've only read "Foundation", and what struck me was, firstly, that it was basically a couple of short stories stuck together - but the two latter ones seemed to repeat themselves. What's the rest of the series like, and...

Foundation - too dated? Read the first book in the "Foundation" series. Although I found the third crisis far too repetitive of the second, and thought it not well resolved, I generally liked it - a decent novel. But I couldn't help noting how terribly dated it read - I'm sure people could...