This story tells us an enigma. We are the creator and the creation at the same time.As humans evolve, they become "God" or Creator.Each story shows humans evolution in increments. ( We evolve from flesh and blood to disembodied mind/energy/nano-tech particle cyborgs)First story, humans are on Ear...
An absolute mindblowing read.Truly showcases the outermost limits of 3 dimensional space. And the eventual transcendence of humanity in a technologically post-Singularity era.The closing remark of: "Let there be light!" truly sets for an unexpected experience from the AC(analytical computer). And...
The Currents of Space is a fast paced "lesser novel" by Isaac Asimov I found engaging and hard to put down.Part 2 of 3 of his Galactic Empire Series, it does not have to be read with the others, as I understood each and every facet of the book and did not feel at anytime that I was missing someth...
This is somehow my first Asimov book. At first, I was underwhelmed. However, as the book went forward, I found that there was much more depth to the writing than originally met the eye and that the shallow characters were shallow with a purpose. Asimov sets up a group of scientist who are outside...
It's been a long time since I actually finished a book I hated through and through as much as I hated F&E, but I was determined that if I was going to give this a bad review I had to go ahead and read the entire thing to justify the rating in the face of those who feel one has to read an entire n...
The author’s purpose for writing Nemesis was to entertain the reader by creating a fascinating, futuristic, and astronomical setting that evokes the imaginations of its readers. The story is told in third person omniscient, which allows the reader to engage in the thoughts of several characters, ...
This story is truly a product of its times, and I suspect Asimov, though most authors would never admit this, was somewhat embarrassed by it. I've not seen why he used a pseudonym for this series, but I could guess. It, like Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, and Tom Corbett behaves like a serial children's...
First published in 1982 almost 30 years after the last volume of the iconic original Foundation Trilogy, namely Second Foundation, I was skeptical that Asimov would be able to maintain his mojo post the Golden Age of Science Fiction when he was publishing his most iconic sci-fi stories and novels...
Foundation and Earth (1986) is a science fiction novel by Isaac Asimov, the fifth novel of the Foundation Series and chronologically the last in the series.Plot introductionSeveral centuries after the events of Second Foundation, two citizens of the Foundation seek to find Earth, the legendary pl...
Šo grāmatu izlasīju „Fantastikas pasaulē” sērijas lasīšanas projekta ietvaros. Par grāmatas kvalitāti pirms lasīšanas es ne mirkli nešaubījos, jo kā gan var šaubīties par stāstu krājumu, kuru esi lasījis desmitiem reižu. Pirmo reizi, kad man vēl nebija pat desmit gadu. Sākumā pārlasīju pāris reiz...
“I cannot say what I feel in any human sense, Partner Elijah. I can say, however, that the sight of you seems to make my thoughts flow more easily, and the gravitational pull on my body seems to assault my senses with lesser insistence."Ahh.. good old R. Daneel Olivaw, how I have missed you.It ha...
tI won't necessarily say that this is the last of the Foundation/Galactic Empire/Robot story arc that I needed to read to complete the whole series because there is still Forward to the Foundation (the last novel I believe that Asimov wrote before he died) as well as a number of robot short stori...
"Credo che a un occhio non allenato questo turbine multicolore sembrerebbe soltanto un guazzabuglio di numeri, figure e forme, ma per me -e Yugo, e Wanda, e Gaal- questa è la Psicostoria sbocciata alla vita."Trovo che Asimov sia un autore fondamentale per un numero di ragioni talmente grande che,...
In the realm of science fiction, Isaac Asimov’s stories have always been my woobie. This rings especially true for his Robot and Foundation series. For me, they’re a literary panic room where I can escape the stress storms and never-ending deadlines of the day-to-day ruckus into a much simpler ...
Asimov foresees the climate change debate29 May 2012tThe title of this book is a part of a longer title, which is used to split up the three sections of the book: Against Stupidity the Gods Themselves Contend in Vain'. I believe that that is actually an Ancient Greek saying, which is not surprisi...
Scroll down for the English version.Un Sherlock Holmes su Solaria Apri un libro di fantascienza e ti ritrovi a leggere un giallo classico, di quelli alla Sherlock Holmes (con tanto di citazione nel testo) o con i personaggi di Agatha Christie. Qualcuno è stato ucciso in un pianeta lontano e il de...
Brief synopsis of story: (1-2 paragraphs). Earth civilization labors under the pressures of overpopulation and all citizens live under vast domes of metal and concrete—the titular caves of steel. Further, robots are making inroads on the human labor market, causing even more distress. On the fl...
Two and a half stars. Mainly curiosity value, but . . .This was Asimov's first published novel; it preceded 1951's Foundation by a year, though most of the contents of the latter were older, having appeared in magazines in the 1940s.Coming belatedly to Pebble after reading other Asimov novels was...
Wow. All together, it's taken me about a month to get through this. Not that it's bad, it's just very dense and at times very dry. More concerned with history than theology, Asimov gives detailed information of place and characters in the Bible, tries to explain the ever-shifting politics that dr...
Well...I just read about 3 chapters on this book, and i think I was totally caught on it. For what I've read so far, this is an unrealistic science-fiction journey into a human brain. Benes, who kept the secret of Uncertainty Principle which may maintain miniaturization process constantly, was se...
The Tales of the Black Widowers are a set of 66 mystery stories. It's a group of middle-aged guys that get together each month for dinner and drinks. Each story involves a mystery that arises out of a guest attending the dinner with a problem to solve. Invariably, the waiter, Henry, solves the...
The world of Isaac Asimov's Lucky Starr is a young science geek's wildest dream come true. Imagine: a thousand years from now, the solar system's secret agents and protectors of the weak are...scientists! —Who don't mind showing off what they know!Dr. Asimov often lamented the pernicious and ever...
«It was ok». Ni más ni menos, la verdad. Me esperaba algo más de este autor que ya me había sorprendido hace bastantes años con El viaje alucinante . Pero será que es el tercer libro de una saga de la que no he leído los primeros, o que hace mucho que no pruebo la ciencia ficción.Sea lo que fuer...
In his introduction to Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain, Issac Asimov tells us that he wasn't satisfied with his novelization of Fantastic Voyage and that this novel is an attempt to correct some things he didn't like about the first novel.The result is this book which is less a sequel to t...
My first exposure to Isaac Asimov was in the Super-Valu grocery store of Upper Lonsdale in 1971, when I was 12. I was accompanying my aunt Jackie on the weekly grocery shopping for our household (budget: $20), and while we were awaiting our turn to pass through the checkout I was perusing the sin...
Isaac Asimov realiza un analisis ameno y desde un punto de vista secular, de la tierra de Canaan, su importancia en la civilizacion, habla del origen de los primeros pobladores y sus distintas luchas, traza el origen de las tribus hebreas y su llegada a Canaan desde arabia.El autor describe el or...
The world of Isaac Asimov's Lucky Starr is a young science geek's wildest dream come true. Imagine: a thousand years from now, the solar system's secret agents and protectors of the weak are...scientists! —Who don't mind showing off what they know!Dr. Asimov often lamented the pernicious and ever...
En la cuarta entrega donde apesar de que los Sirios no son el villano predominante me parece interesante la analogía que se hace con respecto al nazismo (o eso creo): —De la crueldad todo puede esperarse —dijo el doctor Peverale—, igual que de lapolítica. Nos desprecian. Nos consideran como anim...
I rarely learn very many new facts from Asimov's non-fiction books. They tend to cover basic areas of study with which I'm passingly familiar, and so it's mostly recovering old material for me. The thing is that Asimov's writing is so brilliantly clear and he puts all of these facts an incidents ...
