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Originally Posted by januaryman
... Asimov is still amazing to me. ... I was fortunate enough to have met and chatted with him before he died. ...
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And did you just want tug on his sideburns? Every time I see a photo of him that's what I want to do.
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Originally Posted by januaryman
Heinlein's pretty good, but a bit dry for my tastes. But how about Clarke, and Childhood's End?
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I think 1953 was a particularly good year for Arthur C. Clarke:
Childhood's End and
Against the Fall of Night are, I think, some of his most inspired work (
let's not discuss G.Benford's follow-on). Also in that year was his famous short-story
The Nine Billion Names of God - I still love that one. When I was younger I liked more of Clarke, but more recently I have found his work less appealing, whereas Asimov - to my taste - has lasted much better.
Robert Heinlein I found a strange one. Quite a lot of his stuff I quite liked the first time through, but few suffer a second. Some of his shorter novels are quite good yarns but when you get to his longer stuff ... well they have moments of brilliance but he can't seem to stay the distance.