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Isaac Asimov

Anonymous Tue 31 Mar 21:53:23 2020 No.11519293 View Reply Original Report

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What does /sci/ think about this guy?!
also what is your favorite Asimov novel?

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Anonymous Tue 31 Mar 2020 22:15:31 No.11519374 Report

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>>11519293
I like his books and ideas. I like Foundation a lot

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Anonymous Tue 31 Mar 2020 22:23:01 No.11519405 Report

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>>11519293
https://youtu.be/sI1C9DyIi_8?t=1h2m35s

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Anonymous Tue 31 Mar 2020 22:46:03 No.11519490 Report

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>>11519293
He was notorious for being sexist and groping women.
>When you consider Asimov’s treatment of women, you find an identical pattern. As a young man, he was shy and romantically inexperienced, which was reflected in the overwhelming absence of female characters in his fiction. He openly stated that his relationship with his first wife was sexually unfulfilling, and it was shortly after his marriage that his fingers began to rove more freely. While working as a chemist at the Philadelphia Navy Yard during World War II, he liked to snap women’s bras through their blouses—“a very bad habit I sometimes can’t resist to this day,” he recalled in 1979—and on at least one occasion, he broke the strap.
>After the war, his reputation as a groper became a running joke among science fiction fans. The writer and editor Judith Merril recalled that Asimov was known in the 1940s as “the man with a hundred hands,” and that he “apparently felt obliged to leer, ogle, pat, and proposition as an act of sociability.” It was all framed as nothing but good fun, as were his interactions with women once his success as an author allowed him to proceed with greater impunity. He writes in his memoirs of his custom of “hugging all the young ladies” at his publisher’s office, which was viewed indulgently by such editors as Timothy Seldes of Doubleday, who said, “All you want to do is kiss the girls and make collect calls. You’re welcome to that, Asimov.” In reality, his attentions were often unwanted, and women found excuses to be away from the building whenever he was scheduled to appear.
So, typical sci-fi nerd.

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Anonymous Tue 31 Mar 2020 22:48:45 No.11519500 Report

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>>11519490
HOLY BASED

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Anonymous Tue 31 Mar 2020 22:53:17 No.11519518 Report

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>>11519500
>Isaac Asimov
He got all the hotties.

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Anonymous Tue 31 Mar 2020 23:31:14 No.11519615 Report

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>>11519490
Source

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Anonymous Tue 31 Mar 2020 23:58:13 No.11519687 Report

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>>11519615
Here you go https://www.publicbooks.org/asimovs-empire-asimovs-wall/

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Anonymous Wed 01 Apr 2020 01:14:28 No.11519918 Report

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>>11519518
He was the original Joe Biden.
Only with more taste.

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Anonymous Wed 01 Apr 2020 02:03:25 No.11520048 Report

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>>11519918
As far as I can tell, Asimov liked them young but they did need to have already gone through puberty. Handsy Joe doesn't seem to care about age at all. Toddler to Depends, he wants a hand full of it.

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Anonymous Wed 01 Apr 2020 02:07:30 No.11520057 Report

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>>11519490
>Hurr durr evil dead white male. Read my feminist novels instead!

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Anonymous Wed 01 Apr 2020 02:12:02 No.11520064 Report

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>>11520057
>(((white)))

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Anonymous Wed 01 Apr 2020 03:41:23 No.11520246 Report

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>>11520057
The Radio Shack Internet Defense Force is bringing out the big guns tonight.

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Anonymous Wed 01 Apr 2020 09:17:27 No.11521410 Report

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Anonymous Wed 01 Apr 2020 09:25:12 No.11521438 Report

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>>11519293
The Last Question of course

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Anonymous Wed 01 Apr 2020 09:31:11 No.11521459 Report

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>>11519293
"the gods themselves" was weird but i liked it

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Anonymous Wed 01 Apr 2020 13:39:31 No.11522080 Report

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Pretty based

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Anonymous Wed 01 Apr 2020 14:13:22 No.11522173 Report

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>>11519490
Oh, come on. They're all like that.

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Anonymous Wed 01 Apr 2020 14:19:16 No.11522191 Report

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>>11519293
>>11519518
>>11519687
What an ugly motherfucker
What a legend

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Anonymous Wed 01 Apr 2020 14:22:36 No.11522196 Report

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>>11519490
Typical sci fi nerd doesn't have the balls to play grab-ass
Source: I don't have the balls to play grab-ass

Ano?n??y?m?o??u?s??

Ano?n??y?m?o??u?s?? Wed 01 Apr 2020 14:22:53 No.11522197 Report

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>>11519293
scifi is for children just read nonfiction like a man

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Anonymous Wed 01 Apr 2020 14:27:58 No.11522210 Report

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>>11520057
feminist writers are the best at sci-fi, but they don't mean to be.

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Anonymous Wed 01 Apr 2020 15:39:54 No.11522473 Report

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>>11522196
That's because you're not in a position of power and are scared of the consequences. For someone like Asimov, he knew he could get away with it. If any woman in the publishing company objected, they'd fire her on the spot rather than upset one of their best selling authors. If you knew you could get away with playing grab-ass, you'd do it.

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Anonymous Wed 01 Apr 2020 15:44:18 No.11522489 Report

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>>11519500
This.

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Anonymous Wed 01 Apr 2020 19:21:59 No.11523316 Report

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>>11522210
Deep down they want things like The Handmaiden's Tale to become real.

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Anonymous Wed 01 Apr 2020 19:30:48 No.11523364 Report

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>>11519490
unsurprisingly, he wrote a parody of "The Sensual Man", called "The Sensual Dirty Old Man"

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Anonymous Wed 01 Apr 2020 19:33:32 No.11523374 Report

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>>11519293
I grew up reading lots of his stuff, like Foundation and I, Robot. However, it is like going back and watching monster movies you liked as a kid, it ages like milk. Like Heinlein, mostly unreadable today.

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Anonymous Wed 01 Apr 2020 19:35:43 No.11523379 Report

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Anonymous Wed 01 Apr 2020 19:37:27 No.11523385 Report

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>>11519293
hes a fuckking poofter

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Anonymous Wed 01 Apr 2020 20:20:35 No.11523518 Report

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I liked The Last Question and The Gods Themselves

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Anonymous Wed 01 Apr 2020 20:22:26 No.11523522 Report

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>>11523364
Did he self insert?

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Anonymous Wed 01 Apr 2020 21:40:06 No.11523871 Report

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>>11519293
Nightfall

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