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#938822 Fri 24/08/18 13:35 UTC | Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 22,119 Likes: 8 (Buffalo) Moderator | OP  (Buffalo) Moderator Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 22,119 Likes: 8 | | | | | | Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 46,267 Member | | Member Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 46,267 | I read the Foundation Series of novels starting back in the 50's when I was in elementary school along with Heinlein's juveniles and Arthur C Clarke's early novels. Always among my favorites. | | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 42,106 Likes: 5 Member | | Member Joined: May 2000 Posts: 42,106 Likes: 5 | I worry. I have been disappointed more often than not when truly epic stories are made into movies <sigh> But I can always hope <g>
MikeD
| | | | | Joined: Sep 2013 Posts: 568 神の一手 Moderator | | 神の一手 Moderator Joined: Sep 2013 Posts: 568 | I confess, I have never read the Foundation books.
I used to like Asimov's short stories when I was a kid. But as an adult, every Asimov novel I've read has been, well, kind of boring. He has interesting ideas, but his stories are animated by puppets with vaguely human motivations. | | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 42,106 Likes: 5 Member | | Member Joined: May 2000 Posts: 42,106 Likes: 5 | Keep in mind that many of his most famous books were written in the 50s & 60s. The world was a =VERY= different place then <g>
MikeD
| | | | | Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 22,119 Likes: 8 (Buffalo) Moderator | | OP (Buffalo) Moderator Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 22,119 Likes: 8 | Yes, Heinlein and Asimov's Robot and Foundation stories were my intro to Science Fiction. They led me to all of the other great authors I might not have otherwise been exposed to. If you do read the two Foundation series, Amadan, read all of the Robot stories first. | | | | | Joined: Sep 2013 Posts: 568 神の一手 Moderator | | 神の一手 Moderator Joined: Sep 2013 Posts: 568 | I did read some of the robot stories way back when.
Heinlein and Asimov were my introductions to science fiction also. I am still a Heinlein fan (though he was such an uneven writer - some of his books were classics, and some were just crap). | | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 17,952 Likes: 1 Moderator | | Moderator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 17,952 Likes: 1 | The Foundation series is the first set of books that I read for "pleasure". We all had books that we had to read in school, but the Foundation series hooked me on SciFi.
-Nep
| | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 42,106 Likes: 5 Member | | Member Joined: May 2000 Posts: 42,106 Likes: 5 | 's funny how things work. I was not a big fan of reading all though middle school and much of high school. Then one of my classes put 'War of the worlds' on the reading list for the semester. By the time I finished my undergrad in collage (about 6 yrears in all) I had purchased and read over 5,000 F & SF books <g>
MikeD
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