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Originally Posted by orlok
Well I disagree. It is generally acknowledged that his best works are the early Alex Cross books, when he was putting them out at less than one a year on average.
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Acknowledged by whom? I think that an author's worth should be decided by the fans.
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Originally Posted by tompe
Then you are wrong, science fiction is what I am primarily reading and what I like best. And I really like good ideas but now-a-days I require the ideas to be in a good book also. And it is not hard to find good science fiction that also are good books. Authors like China Meiville, Ian Banks, Geoff Ryman, and so on.
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This is my point: the first name that you thought of, China Meiville, doesn't consider his books science fiction.
Iain Banks and Geoff Ryman wrote other genres beside SF, and their SF books would contain elements of these other genres which you don't find in Asimov's work. Asimov wrote pure SF, and you don't like it.