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23455667 No.23455667 [Reply] [Original]

Asimov wrote some big brain stuff, I can feel my IQ increasing as im reading

>> No.23455709

>>23455667
I like Asimov but his early stuff aged badly not just in regards to the shallow characters and repetitive plotting, but many of his ideas reflect a outdated historiography/sociology (the Foundation trilogy was based off Gibbon's Roman history, which was already becoming outdated). He himself acknowledged this which is why the novels after the trilogy depart from the notion of the Seldon Plan.

Frank Herbert's Dune series has issues and I got burned out with God Emperor, but the sociology has aged better, the characters have more depth, and the narratives and plotting are more complex and intriguing.

>> No.23455739

>>23455709
>AHHHHHHH I'M UP TO DATE-MAXXING

>> No.23455766

The first and second novels are great. Third sucks. I wouldn't say it's "high IQ," it really just reads like pulp fiction, although it's good pulp.

>> No.23456235

>>23455709
>Dune
Is gay.
Yeah foundation is not a perfect story but at least they don't pretend you have to use daggers cause muh force field

Foundation and Earth alone mogs dune

>> No.23456563

His dialogue outside of the early material is psychotically inept. Bateman tier treatment of romance and 'incelcore' sex pest typical of post war Boomer scifi.

>> No.23457256

>>23455667
Asimov's plot twists are god tier, though they get a little silly in some of his less famous books.

>> No.23457429

I read the foundation trilogy and it felt like the most subversive reddit atheist tier philosophy I've ever seen in fiction. "We're gonna cover the planet in steel and eliminate cultural diversity from the galaxy it will be great"

>> No.23457466

>>23455766
They just get worse and worse. From fun sci-fi with some interesting thoughts about fate to WOW AND THEN THE CYBER HUMANS USED THEIR MAGIC POWERS AND SAVED EVERYONE.