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Old 03-11-2010, 11:56 AM   #16
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney View Post

I like Asimov for the cleverness of his construction. His characterization was weak, and few of his people came across as real, but that was the norm rather than the exception during his earlier days of writing SF.
I think when we look at Asimov, or indeed many of the Golden Ager's characters, we need to keep in mind that much of their output was short stories. While short stories can be character studies, in SF shorts, you tend not to have much time for character development. Even many of Asimov's novels, written in the early 50s, are rather short by today's standards. I always tended to be more swept up by the power of Asimov's ideas than his characters.

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