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Originally Posted by pwalker8
It is rather dated though, but a lot of the SF books from the era are a bit dated. Of course, I liked most of what Asimov wrote.
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The datedness of a piece of sci-fi doesn't usually bother me and isn't what bothered me with Foundation. I just never connected much with it.
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There are other masters from SF whom I never could get into.
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Most of the sci-fi masters from the pulp era were no great shakes as writers. Asimov's characters were definitely wooden as Pinocchio. I always thought his robots had more personality than his humans did.
The old master I'm not a fan of is Heinlein. He's probably the best writer of the biggies (not counting Bradbury), but I prefer Asimov to Heinlein. And I like Clarke best of them all.