My Isaac Asimov reread continues with the sequel to Caves of Steel — The Naked Sun. We return to the covered city of Earth long enough for our hero, Elijah Baley, to be given a new assignment — investigate a murder on a Spacer World! What’s the story of The Naked Sun? Here’s a blurb from the version I just finished: On the planet of Solaria, … Continue reading The Naked Sun — some thoughts
I first read Asimov’s 1954 novel The Caves of Steel in the ’70s. Published not long after Second Foundation, on the surface it’s a very different story. I may have re-read at some point, reading now I was immediately struck by how developed Asimov’s writing style had become. Yes, it’s punctuated with amusing ideas on calculating machines and references to pipe-smoking, but that aside there’s … Continue reading The Caves of Steel — some thoughts
Over the course of decades, Isaac Asimov wrote a lot of short stories, many (but far from all) on the them of robots. There are various collection, in this article I’m talking about I, Robot and The Rest of the Robots. Despite the second title, there are many other robot stories (short and long) in various places, including The Complete Robot and The Bicentennial Man. … Continue reading I, Robot and The Rest of the Robots — some thoughts
If you’ve noticed, this blog consists (roughly) of Musings about SF and other stuff. Back in the day, the first posts were from my original blog, where I would occasionally cover the odd piece of science fiction. When I formed this blog, I realised from my work at CultBox I wanted to cover a lot more besides. Labels such as cult are great as they … Continue reading What exactly is science fiction? #weisf
Symmetry Junction 