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22843787 No.22843787 [Reply] [Original]

So is there an actual reason that they decided Clarke to be the better science fiction writer and Assimov to be the better science writer?

>> No.22844507

the fact that one wrote better science fiction and the other better scientific dissemination

>> No.22844894

>>22843787
one diddled little boys and ran off to sri lanka to avoid the law, the other was a lecherous and randy old man who frequently pressured young women into sexual situations they did not enjoy.

more to the point, Asimov had like 2 decent SF ideas (Foundation, and the laws of robotics), but then proceeded to churn out the dullest slop from those for the next 50 years.

Clarke had a few more interesting SF ideas (2001, Childhood's End, Rama, Fountains of Paradise), but he wasn't really that strong of a writer when compared to non-genre authors.

i think the shift was probably because someone wanted to have a contrarian take so that meant moving someone else above Asimov and then making the semi-clever distinction about SF vs sciene writing, simply because he wrote a ton of non-fiction slop.