The Asimov thread

[Rac80]

Oh we can't even begin to discuss scifi books without discussing the granddaddy of scifi books...Isaac Asimov! I admit to loving his books, yes they are not "action" packed...no shoot'em ups, but are full on intrigue and interest for me. I have a HUGE collection from his early 50's books to the foundation series and even collections of his short stories. Asimov could always be counted on to write a book/story that left me thinking.

 

[AdamTM]

Just finished Foundation and Empire, still living in the afterglow..... *lights a cigarette*

Tomorrow im going to buy second foundation

 

[Deity59]

Books by Asimov

Asimov & Bear - 2nd Foundation 02 - Foundation and Chaos
Asimov & Benford - 2nd Foundation 01 - Foundation's Fear
Asimov & Brin - 2nd Foundation 03 - Foundation's Triumph
All The Troubles Of The World
Anniversary
Aurora in Four Voices
Black Widowers 01 - Tales of the Black Widowers
Black Widowers 02 - Bouquets of the Black Widowers
Black Widowers 03 - The Backward Look
Bouquets of the Black Widowers
Breeds There a Man
Buy Jupiter and Other Stories
Catastrophes!
Catastrophes
C-Chute
Cleon the Emperor
Complete Stories Vol 1
Dead Hand
Dreaming Is A Private Thing
Earth Is Room Enough
Eyes Do More Than See
Fantastic Voyage II - Destination Brain
Fantastic Voyage I
Feeling of Power
Flies
Fortune and Misfortune
Foundation 00 - Prelude to Foundation
Foundation 1-3 - The Complete Foundation
Trilogy
Foundation 4 - Second Foundation
Foundation 5 - Foundation's Edge
Foundation 6 - Foundation and Earth
Foundation SS Coll - Foundation's Friends
Foundation X - Forward the Foundation
Found!
Gimmicks Three
Gold 01 - Cal
Gold 02 - Left To Right
Gold 03 - Frustration
Gold 04 - Hallucination
Gold 05 - The Instability
Guide to Shakespeare, Volume 01
Guide to Shakespeare, Volume 02
Hallucination
Hostess
In a Good Cause
Insert Knob A in Hole B
I, Robot
It's Such a Beautiful Day
Asimov, Isaac & Janet - The Norby Chronicles
Just Make Them Up, See
Liar!
Lucky Starr 01 - David Starr, Space Ranger
Lucky Starr 02 - and the Pirates of the Asteroids
Lucky Starr 03 - and the Big Sun of Mercury
Lucky Starr 04 - and the Oceans Of Venus
Lucky Starr 05 - and the Moons of Jupiter
Lucky Starr 06 - and the Rings of Saturn
Magical Wishes
Magical Worlds of Fantasy - Faeries
Marooned Off Vesta
My Son the Physicist
Mysteries
Mythical Beasties
Nemesis
Nightfall and Other Stories (SS Coll)
Nightfall Two
Nine Tomorrows
Nobody Here But
Of Time and Space and Other Things
One Night of Song
On the Marching Morons
Opus 200
Out of the Everywhere
Potential
Presents the Great SF Stories - 01 - 1939
Presents the Great SF Stories - 03 - 1941
Profession
Reason
Robot 00 - Robot Dreams
Robot 01 - The Caves of Steel
Robot 02 - The Naked Sun
Robot 03.5 - Mirror Image
Robot 03 - The Robots of Dawn
Robot 05 - The Rest of the Robots
Robot 06 - Robots & Empire
Robot 07 - The Stars Like Dust
Robot 08 - Pebble In The Sky
Robot City 1 - Odyssey
Robot City 2 - Suspicion
Robot City 3 - Cyborg
Robot City 4 - Prodigy
Robot City 5 - Refuge
Robot City 6 - Perihelion
Robot Mystery - Chimera
Robot Mystery - Mirage
Robots and Aliens 1 - Changeling
Robots and Aliens 2 - Renegade
Robots and Aliens 3 - Intruder
Robots and Aliens 4 - Alliance
Robots and Aliens 5 - Maverick
Robots and Aliens 6 - Humanity
Robots in Time 1 - Predator
Robots in Time 2 - Marauder
Robots in Time 3 - Warrior
Robots in Time 4 - Dictator
Robots in Time 5 - Emperor
Robots in Time 6 - Invader
Robot Visions
Sally
Satisfaction Guaranteed
Spell My Name With An S
Standing Room Only
Sucker Bait
Takeoff
The Author's Ordeal
The Best of Isaac Asimov
The Bicentennial Man
The Brazen Locked Room
The Complete Robot
The Complete Stories Volume 1
The Dead Past
The Early Asimov
The Early Asimov Volume 1
The Early Asimov Volume 2
The Early Asimov Volume 3
The End of Eternity
The Feeling of Power
The Final Science Fiction Collection
The Fun They Had
The Gentle Vultures
The Gods Themselves
The Human Brain
The Last Question
The Machine That Won the War
The Martian Way
The Message
The Secret Sense
The Story Behind The Foundation Trilogy
The Strikebreaker
The Two-centimeter Demon
The Ugly Little Boy
The Up to Date Sorcerer
The Winnowing
Trantorian Empire 01 - Pebble in the Sky
Trantorian Empire 02 - The Stars Like Dust
Trantorian Empire 03 - The Currents of Space
What If
What is This Thing Called Love
Wonderful Worlds of SciFi Vol 9 - Robots
Asimov & Niven - On the Marching Morons
Asimov's Choice & De Camp, L Sprague - The
Queen of Zamba
Asimov & Silverberg - The Positronic Man
Asimov & Silverberg - The Ugly Little Boy
Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine - 01-2002
Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine - 02-2002
Isaac Asimov - Caliban1 - Caliban1
Isaac Asimov - Caliban2 - Inferno1
Isaac Asimov - Caliban3 - Utopia1
Isaac Asimov - Gold, The Final Science Fiction
Collection1

Not a total list, just the ones I have

 

[Rac80]

Books by Asimov

Asimov & Bear - 2nd Foundation 02 - Foundation and Chaos
Asimov & Benford - 2nd Foundation 01 - Foundation's Fear
Asimov & Brin - 2nd Foundation 03 - Foundation's Triumph
All The Troubles Of The World
Anniversary
Aurora in Four Voices
Black Widowers 01 - Tales of the Black Widowers
Black Widowers 02 - Bouquets of the Black Widowers
Black Widowers 03 - The Backward Look
Bouquets of the Black Widowers
Breeds There a Man
Buy Jupiter and Other Stories
Catastrophes!
Catastrophes
C-Chute
Cleon the Emperor
Complete Stories Vol 1
Dead Hand
Dreaming Is A Private Thing
Earth Is Room Enough
Eyes Do More Than See
Fantastic Voyage II - Destination Brain
Fantastic Voyage I
Feeling of Power
Flies
Fortune and Misfortune
Foundation 00 - Prelude to Foundation
Foundation 1-3 - The Complete Foundation
Trilogy
Foundation 4 - Second Foundation
Foundation 5 - Foundation's Edge
Foundation 6 - Foundation and Earth
Foundation SS Coll - Foundation's Friends
Foundation X - Forward the Foundation
Found!
Gimmicks Three
Gold 01 - Cal
Gold 02 - Left To Right
Gold 03 - Frustration
Gold 04 - Hallucination
Gold 05 - The Instability
Guide to Shakespeare, Volume 01
Guide to Shakespeare, Volume 02
Hallucination
Hostess
In a Good Cause
Insert Knob A in Hole B
I, Robot
It's Such a Beautiful Day
Asimov, Isaac & Janet - The Norby Chronicles
Just Make Them Up, See
Liar!
Lucky Starr 01 - David Starr, Space Ranger
Lucky Starr 02 - and the Pirates of the Asteroids
Lucky Starr 03 - and the Big Sun of Mercury
Lucky Starr 04 - and the Oceans Of Venus
Lucky Starr 05 - and the Moons of Jupiter
Lucky Starr 06 - and the Rings of Saturn
Magical Wishes
Magical Worlds of Fantasy - Faeries
Marooned Off Vesta
My Son the Physicist
Mysteries
Mythical Beasties
Nemesis
Nightfall and Other Stories (SS Coll)
Nightfall Two
Nine Tomorrows
Nobody Here But
Of Time and Space and Other Things
One Night of Song
On the Marching Morons
Opus 200
Out of the Everywhere
Potential
Presents the Great SF Stories - 01 - 1939
Presents the Great SF Stories - 03 - 1941
Profession
Reason
Robot 00 - Robot Dreams
Robot 01 - The Caves of Steel
Robot 02 - The Naked Sun
Robot 03.5 - Mirror Image
Robot 03 - The Robots of Dawn
Robot 05 - The Rest of the Robots
Robot 06 - Robots & Empire
Robot 07 - The Stars Like Dust
Robot 08 - Pebble In The Sky
Robot City 1 - Odyssey
Robot City 2 - Suspicion
Robot City 3 - Cyborg
Robot City 4 - Prodigy
Robot City 5 - Refuge
Robot City 6 - Perihelion
Robot Mystery - Chimera
Robot Mystery - Mirage
Robots and Aliens 1 - Changeling
Robots and Aliens 2 - Renegade
Robots and Aliens 3 - Intruder
Robots and Aliens 4 - Alliance
Robots and Aliens 5 - Maverick
Robots and Aliens 6 - Humanity
Robots in Time 1 - Predator
Robots in Time 2 - Marauder
Robots in Time 3 - Warrior
Robots in Time 4 - Dictator
Robots in Time 5 - Emperor
Robots in Time 6 - Invader
Robot Visions
Sally
Satisfaction Guaranteed
Spell My Name With An S
Standing Room Only
Sucker Bait
Takeoff
The Author's Ordeal
The Best of Isaac Asimov
The Bicentennial Man
The Brazen Locked Room
The Complete Robot
The Complete Stories Volume 1
The Dead Past
The Early Asimov
The Early Asimov Volume 1
The Early Asimov Volume 2
The Early Asimov Volume 3
The End of Eternity
The Feeling of Power
The Final Science Fiction Collection
The Fun They Had
The Gentle Vultures
The Gods Themselves
The Human Brain
The Last Question
The Machine That Won the War
The Martian Way
The Message
The Secret Sense
The Story Behind The Foundation Trilogy
The Strikebreaker
The Two-centimeter Demon
The Ugly Little Boy
The Up to Date Sorcerer
The Winnowing
Trantorian Empire 01 - Pebble in the Sky
Trantorian Empire 02 - The Stars Like Dust
Trantorian Empire 03 - The Currents of Space
What If
What is This Thing Called Love
Wonderful Worlds of SciFi Vol 9 - Robots
Asimov & Niven - On the Marching Morons
Asimov's Choice & De Camp, L Sprague - The
Queen of Zamba
Asimov & Silverberg - The Positronic Man
Asimov & Silverberg - The Ugly Little Boy
Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine - 01-2002
Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine - 02-2002
Isaac Asimov - Caliban1 - Caliban1
Isaac Asimov - Caliban2 - Inferno1
Isaac Asimov - Caliban3 - Utopia1
Isaac Asimov - Gold, The Final Science Fiction
Collection1

Not a total list, just the ones I have

:shock: i could have sworn you were looking at my bookcase! :shock:

 

[Deity59]

Haha in a way I did that to show that talking about Asimov is just a tad to broad a topic for one thread. It's like "which one of the 200 or so books this cat has written do you want to talk about".

 

[Rac80]

Haha in a way I did that to show that talking about Asimov is just a tad to broad a topic for one thread. It's like "which one of the 200 or so books this cat has written do you want to talk about".

more to appreciate the man's entire body of work. So much of what is commonly accepted in science fiction was his invention/interpretation. Actually i am convinced George Lucas stole from Asimov for the star wars series. han solo is a rip off of an asimov character! then there is lucky starr=luke skywalker....too coincidental for me!

 

[Deity59]

Yes he was and is influential, but all writing sits on what came before to one degree or another. Read some Olaf Stapledon and see what I mean. Try Last and First Men, Odd John, or Star Maker. All written in the 1030's.

BTW as a note to people that want to read vintage or classic sci-fi, put yourself in the time period it is written in or don't even bother. A great example is, I had to read Brave New World for a university class. All my classmates hated it. I asked why, and they all said all the sci-fi in it had already happened. So I said "look at the copyright date, it is from 1932, and see it from those eyes". I mean in '32 we had bi-planes and if you wanted to go cross country you got on a train and it took days. You have to keep in mind we first put a man outside our own atmosphere in 1961, it hasn't even been 50 years yet.

 

[Rac80]

Yes he was and is influential, but all writing sits on what came before to one degree or another. Read some Olaf Stapledon and see what I mean. Try Last and First Men, Odd John, or Star Maker. All written in the 1030's.

BTW as a note to people that want to read vintage or classic sci-fi, put yourself in the time period it is written in or don't even bother. A great example is, I had to read Brave New World for a university class. All my classmates hated it. I asked why, and they all said all the sci-fi in it had already happened. So I said "look at the copyright date, it is from 1932, and see it from those eyes". I mean in '32 we had bi-planes and if you wanted to go cross country you got on a train and it took days. You have to keep in mind we first put a man outside our own atmosphere in 1961, it hasn't even been 50 years yet.

EXACTLY context of the times is everything. Around the world in 80 days- now it would be what 18 hours? I loved Brave New World btw...great story. I heard kids complain about 1984... missing the point that it had a cold war background (thinking about what is happening today...not so farfetched is it! )

 

[Deity59]

I read 1984, but I won't read it again. The cautionary tales type novels just depress me. Ones like Brave new world, 1984, Fahrenheit 451. (shiver) And don't get me started on the Handmaidens Tale :cry:

 

[Rac80]

I read 1984, but I won't read it again. The cautionary tales type novels just depress me. Ones like Brave new world, 1984, Fahrenheit 451. (shiver) And don't get me started on the Handmaidens Tale :cry:

I find those very intriguing myself...the old "be careful what you do..."


Adam-- is this your first run through the foundation novels? I adore them...they are thinking scifi...

 

[AdamTM]

Adam-- is this your first run through the foundation novels? I adore them...they are thinking scifi...

Indeed it is, or at least a full run.

I did read Prelude to Foundation like 12 years ago, but never the whole series. Also ofc i read I, Robot and some other robot stories (more than 12 years ago).

So i can say im re-discovering asimov

 

[Rac80]

Adam-- is this your first run through the foundation novels? I adore them...they are thinking scifi...

Indeed it is, or at least a full run.

I did read Prelude to Foundation like 12 years ago, but never the whole series. Also ofc i read I, Robot and some other robot stories (more than 12 years ago).

So i can say im re-discovering asimov

enjoy the ride...I "rediscover" the foundation series every 4 or so years. always an enjoyable read.