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That's pretty much where I am with Asimov

What?! Now ... now we encounter problems, kleinbl00. Asimov shit better books than PKD wrote in a lifetime.

kleinbl00 · 3758 days ago · link ·

Yeah, but he's still a mediocre writer with an ouvre of largely forgettable works. He's in the pantheon for two, maybe three standouts.

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user-inactivated · 3758 days ago · link ·

Couldn't disagree more. Greatest of the modern science fiction writers.

(Based on a reading of the 14 of his books that exist in the same universe. And also Asimov on Physics etc, which is different.)

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kleinbl00 · 3758 days ago · link ·

Ech. Niven, Silverberg, Ellison, Sturgeon, Zelazny, Clarke, Heinlein all wipe the floor with him. Asimov just wrote more.

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user-inactivated · 3758 days ago · link ·

Asimov wrote more, yeah, but also his peak -- Foundation -- is better in some indefinable way than any of those others. My opinion, course.

That said I'm short-handed when it comes to having read enough Zelazney (have you read the book he did with PKD? Should I?) and Ellison.