isaac asimov

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...

Nightfall I found this to be a great Issac Asimov book. Rather creepy and dark, but still full his genius. I heard somewhere that he had written a Nightfall 2 (well somebody wrote it anyway). Is this true and what does it involve? But the characterisation was good, the plot was brilliant...

I have been reading Philip K Dick's collection of short stories (incl. Minority Report) recently, the central defining point of these separate stories seems to be a catastrophic nuclear war at some point in the 20th Century. The stories either deal with the direct aftermath for the survivors...

If you've read his biographies you know quite a bit about him. He's was, of course, intelligent tempered with a great deal of wisdom. He had a sense of humor that was out of this world. He was known as Science Fiction's dirty old man - regardless of his age. He was one of the most prolific...

So who has read any of these. I started the benford book but I must say he is a little bit boring. I am going to give it another go at some point (probably have to start again) and hope it gets better, mainly because i know the other two authors will be better books. Anybody else read them?

My vote goes for between the positronic man and the ugly little boy. What about you?

What order do you recommend reading foundation series in. I personally read them in the order they were written but what about you?

Padders I am glad to find someone who likes him as much as me. His where basically the first sci-fi books that I ever read. I think the very first was 2001 followed by another one of clarkes. Then i read foundation followed by the next four in the series. From then i started reading lots of...