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Originally Posted by bill_mchale
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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Bill
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Definitely, but it's interesting to compare Asimov's novels of the 1950s with, say, Heinlein's "juveniles". Asimov had the big ideas, yes, but for me, at least, Heinlein is by far the better writer in terms of "story telling". I still find Heinlein's juvenile novels gripping even today.