Even the ideas were nothing too special¹. His writing was fine, but yeah, not really more than ‘fine’
And he was, to put it mildly: extremely shitty to women, whom he did not consider to be people, to a degree that stood out even in the like 1950s.
Might’ve also done some huac snitching? But definitly check that, low confidence. Extra ‘what the fuck is wrong with you?’ to this tankie if he did.
¹but i am remembering his ‘foundation’ novels, the premise of which is fucking hilarious in context of him saying ‘1984 isnt scifi’-the point of the books being all the lasers and shit aren’t the real technology being brought back, and the descendents of the sociology department dirt farming in the ruins of the old capital whose communication with each other is so advanced nobody else can even tell they’re doing it (its grosser than that, in the context of how rapey he was) are thr real drivers of everything going on and this rim colony full of physicists and engineers was essentially their puppet.
Even on a literary level, asimov had some great ideas and concepts, but the actual writing isn’t particularly gripping stuff.
Even the ideas were nothing too special¹. His writing was fine, but yeah, not really more than ‘fine’
And he was, to put it mildly: extremely shitty to women, whom he did not consider to be people, to a degree that stood out even in the like 1950s.
Might’ve also done some huac snitching? But definitly check that, low confidence. Extra ‘what the fuck is wrong with you?’ to this tankie if he did.
¹but i am remembering his ‘foundation’ novels, the premise of which is fucking hilarious in context of him saying ‘1984 isnt scifi’-the point of the books being all the lasers and shit aren’t the real technology being brought back, and the descendents of the sociology department dirt farming in the ruins of the old capital whose communication with each other is so advanced nobody else can even tell they’re doing it (its grosser than that, in the context of how rapey he was) are thr real drivers of everything going on and this rim colony full of physicists and engineers was essentially their puppet.