Isaac Asimov's...The Last Question?

.....came across this gem of a short story online and loved reading it again...my first experience with Isaac was a couple volumes of his short stories and I fell in LOVE with his work....this is a great example of the genius of Asimov...he's the only writer who's published a book in every catagory in the Dewey Decimal System in fact!

This story was published in 1956...which shows Asimov's visionary wisdom of computers...and this story is such a trip I thought I'd see if ya'll liked it too...so read it and vote if ya want to!:)

http://dookaloosy.dyndns.org/wail_-_thoughts_on_a_book_-_Asimov1.htm

Haven't read any of his stuff in many years, but I grew up on both his fiction and his non-fiction.

He had a great talent for bringing scientific topics to the general public in a way that conveyed the real essence of the subjects without getting overly technical.

A true genius.

--Peter

smart dude and he can write

....RIP Isaac!:loveya:

Asimov would not fly?

Amtrak or Greyhound got him around the country.

Just a little trivia that makes him even more interesting.

:evilgrin:

I've never read any of his stories, but I've heard he was a cool writer.

....you should check it out...I think it's waaay cool! ;-)

And I love it. Asimov rocks.

Fantastic.

Or the robot series much either. WAY too much credence to the "science" of psychology.

In how the society became utterly lawless.

Asimov died of Aids?

He got it during heart surgery.

Life sucks sometimes.

....he was taken much too soon!:(

But maybe not -- it's just what he would write. Asimov rules!

And where would we be without science fiction?

due to allegations of his extensive use of ghost writers.

.....has all about him...his work...and his life!:)

http://www.asimovonline.com/asimov_home_page.html

He had his good ones and his bad ones, of course.

This is a keeper.

Despite the fact that he had stopped teaching, he still was referred to as a faculty member at BU - the bio on the net says he had been on the BU medical school faculty - but I knew him as just a Boston University bio-chem professor that was not currently teaching.

The local Boston colleges science fiction clubs would have an outing (picnic?) and he came along - at least on the one I recall that included the MIT club...(this was some point between 60 and 64 - my mind is not clear on the date)

He was in his early 40's I believe, and many of the co-eds afterwards thought of him as a dirty old man - but did not explain why to me - not that could have understood the concept as I was a dirty young man at the time.

In anycase, he was one of the SF writers that could actually write well and make you think - a great combination. I spent some pleasant time in HS reading his stuff rather than my assignments! But I preferred AE Van Vogt in World of null-A. :-)

:-)

...he could have told me his dirty limericks all afternoon! :evilgrin:

:bounce:

I remember green paper and lavender ink. I remember that just as well as the outmoded word processor that required correct pronunciaton. I read that in the early 60's.

He was a visionary. So... does anyone know if he was an Aquarian, as well?

The Foundation series is a good yarn!

Just another example of the man's versatility. I have a copy, but it's packed away somewhere. Sorry.

"I am just," moaned a girl from Racine,
"A perpetural motion machine.
I can't help it. I must.
For I service the lust
Of a sex-starved young U.S. Marine."

:evilgrin:

and youll know what I think of him.

....can't believe this is the first time I've seen it! :)

:)

he wrote it. Nobody quite like Isaac. I was truly sad when he died. He was like an old friend to me.