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Originally Posted by BWinmill
Asimov stories are mostly about what the characters are doing and there is a bit about why the characters are doing it, though the why usually fits some sort of archetype. Yet he doesn't really get into who the characters are. I think it is best to describe Asimov-the-storyteller as a writer of adventures and mysteries, with a light touch of exploring the issues that surround science/technology and society.
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Probably has been said before (didn't look through the tread, sorry), but there's a good short story from him where he actually pokes fun at his own writing style and his minimal character explanations: "Gold".
(A story about a writer who apparently wrote the middle part of "The gods themselves" and didn't really describe the aliens, making it very hard to create a movie out of it.)
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Originally Posted by BWinmill
But Asimov is not compelling as literature.
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I'm not sure I understand what you mean - he is read by many, and wrote books. Is that not literature?
Or are you referring to some "rules" of literature?