Thread: Over rated Authors-Isaac Asimov
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Old 09-19-2012, 07:01 PM   #127
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Originally Posted by fjtorres View Post
More to the point, when you consider that the ostensible premise of the classic FOUNDATION series is that individual action is subsumed/outweighed by the greater forces of mass human activity (economics, demography, etc) it would be a bit ironic if the series had spawned an iconic protagonist comparable to The Mule (who was defined as an aberration to start with).
I still think Asimov has a much overrated reputation as an SF author.

He wrote hardly any SF between 1960 and 1982 (not counting anthologies of his early works). And the first 15 years were very pulpy works, little of which aged well.
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