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Post by LinksFan on Dec 1, 2006 18:54:46 GMT
Who else loves this author? I think he is amazing, especially the End of Eternity and the other one that I can't remember of the title of...
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Post by Richard El Britannia on Dec 2, 2006 16:39:01 GMT
I've never heard of the chap. What kind of books does he write?
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Otzlowe
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Post by Otzlowe on Dec 4, 2006 2:42:39 GMT
He sounds familiar, but I can't place anything he's written off the top of my head... I'm sure if you reminded me of a title, I'd probably know.
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Post by Surreptitious Cardboard Box on Feb 6, 2008 17:18:38 GMT
Today I started Foundation, by Isaac Asimov. I ended up with three free periods today, so I went and visited Karl in SPICE and he was reading the second book in this series, so I had a look at the first, and - because I was incredibly bored, but also because it looked pretty interesting - I decided to start reading. I only got to page 27, which is in chapter 6, because I kept getting distracted by various things, but it's pretty good so far. Occasionally, I have to re-read a sentence a few times, because some of the syntax is a little confusing - possibly because it's more archaic than what I'm used to - but it's fairly engrossing, and quite a few aspects of it seem to have directly influence STAR WARS (although I'm aware that George Lucas drew on a lot of sources for inspiration, such as the films of Akira Kurosawa and Flash Gordon, and not just one particular novel, or series of novels for that matter). The concept of the core planet of the universe being covered in a planet-wide city, built up on many levels is especially apparent in both Lucas and Asimov's works, but they both also share similar ideas in terms of space travel.
I'm not at all familiar with Asimov's works, really, unless you count the I, Robot film, although obviously that was only suggested by his collection of short stories (of the same name). However, this is so far pretty interesting, so I intend to continue reading it for now.
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Post by Richard El Britannia on Feb 6, 2008 18:17:03 GMT
So they're old books? How old are we talking?
Even so, from your descriptions here and in the 'what are you reading' post, it sounds interesting.
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Post by Surreptitious Cardboard Box on Feb 6, 2008 19:49:20 GMT
The particular book I'm reading was published in 1951, I believe, and appears to be one of his earlier novels. He wrote mostly science-fiction novels, or at least that's certainly what he's renowned for. My only criticism thus far is that a lot of the dialogue seems very stilted, and not particularly natural-sounding. On more than one occasion, earlier today, I laughed out loud at unintentionally funny dialogue.
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