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Asimov was definitely an idea man. His best stuff is probably his robot stories, where he takes an interesting concept (his Three Laws of Robotics) and then turns them into pretty good stories that also serve to show the twists and turns and limits of the basic concept.
They are fairly dated, though. I reread I, Robot after the Will Smith movie came out, and stuff like astronauts on Mercury riding on the shoulders of robots and steering them with the robots' ears was just wacky by that point. Even his Three Laws of Robotics are kind of a charming anachronism in the modern day.
I will also say that I appreciate the economy with which the 50's sci fi guys wrote. I like it when I can read an entire novel within 150 pages.
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