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Although many of his stories are set in an SF environment, they are not really hard science fiction like Clarke, Heinlein and Asimov. His use of prose is better than the average bear, and some of his earlier works are quite interesting. ...
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Best Novel: TIE: The City & The City, China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan UK); The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade); Best Novella: “Palimpsest”, Charles Stross (Wireless; Ace, Orbit); Best Novelette: “The Island”, Peter Watts (The New Space Opera 2; Eos); Best Short Story: “Bridesicle”, Will McIntosh (Asimov's 1/09); Best Related Book: This is Me, Jack Vance! (Or, More Properly, This is “I”), ... status offline Jojo Lapin X, Unread Message ...
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This shares some of the same problems as HAL (single massive system with an internal database of 'facts', as opposed to a distributed search index for the web,) but I'd say that Isaac Asimov's Multivac might be closer, especially as ...
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*Bonjour Asimov* Tu as tapot? sur ton clavier le message suivant Oui, mais avec FireFox, pas de souci. Je suppose qu'il faudrait IE7 ou 8 ... -- Jacquouille la Fripouille P?rigord, meitat chen, meitat porc. ...
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And personally, I'm not really thinking in terms of what books are best, per se, but which books provide the best cross-section of Americana. I'm as big an Asimov as anyone, but Foundation, say, isn't really about America in any sense ...
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Three very tough, stumpy robots are sent as Earth's ambassadors to a xenophobic, arrogant alien race that lives on a high-gravity world. The aliens are amazed at how hardy the robots are, and by the end of the robots' visit have become ...
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I saw Asimov do an entire panel presentation about being rejected by Judy Lynn Benjamin (not yet Del Rey.) And I was at a picnic where he brought Willy Ley's hot daughter. So he would have loved it, I'm sure. ...
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They could run it on a full page spread in The Onion or Westword if they wanted. That's the same reason if you leave a message on someone's phone, you don't have to sign with a big record label. It's a message! Not sure if that is the sort of .... Were it posted on the Asimov's Forum, back when I was moderating, it would have been removed as soon as I noticed it. It'll never come to this, but Sanders would be within his rights to sue you, and the law would be on his side. ...
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