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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
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This is a really good book, and was Asimov's favorite scifi novel. I'll never find where I read it, as it was years ago, but apparently some of the elements in the novel were there to prove critics wrong. Because he didn't have aliens or romance in his works, critics kept saying he was incapable of writing either. A whole third of this book's from the viewpoint of a very alien species in an alternate universe, and there's a romance in the final third. Both handled well, in the case of the aliens, even brilliantly.
He definitely proved that just because he didn't write those things normally, he could do so easily.
