just be prepared for some somewhat boring character interactions.
he’s a better world builder then dialog crafter, as is true in much sci-fi from that era. more his early stuff then later
his wife wrote some stuff in his universe after he died and i think she did characters/dialog so much better. i suspect she helped him in his later works (which is super cool some of the best writing comes from couples collaborating)
Oh shoot! I gotta read Asimov, lol. Been putting it off too long.
the ‘psychohistory’ in Foundation is pretty much a thinly veiled version of historical materialism, at least that’s the way it came off to me
I’ll have to check it out!
just be prepared for some somewhat boring character interactions.
he’s a better world builder then dialog crafter, as is true in much sci-fi from that era. more his early stuff then later
his wife wrote some stuff in his universe after he died and i think she did characters/dialog so much better. i suspect she helped him in his later works (which is super cool some of the best writing comes from couples collaborating)
Thanks for the heads-up! The later stuff sounds especially cool.