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Anyone into Arthur C. Clarke or Issac Asimov? I'm finding that I've really enjoyed their work.

I'm starting to get into them. In fact, I'm currently gathering their books and audios to delve into. I purchased today two of Asimov's science books Atom: Journey Across the Subatomic Cosmos and Understanding Physics, 3 Volumes in One: Motion, Sound & Heat, Light, Magnetism & Electricity; The Electron, Proton and Neutron (v. 1-3). Asimov was a professor of biochemistry before he became a fiction writer.

I like the Foundation series quite a bit, although it's been a long time since I read them. They're on my list to re-read at some point in the not too distant future. So is Clarke.

I heard Rendezvous with Rama is great. I have it and will start on it soon.

Recently finished Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke. Great book! I've read I Robot by Asimov and it was an excellent read!

Aloha wrote: "I heard Rendezvous with Rama is great. I have it and will start on it soon."

Excellent read, Aloha!

Rendezvous with Raman and Childhood's End are great!

Agree about RAMA and CHILDHOOD'S ...

Re-read the first FOUNDATION book recently and was immensely disappointed ... I have much fonder memories of it from my youth than matched reality ...

I met Asimov many, many years ago and spent about an hour talking with him ... He was an amazingly fun person to hang with ...

WAY cool! I would have loved to been able to meet one of my heroes of literature.

recently re-read Foundation and recently picked up Rendezvous with Rama

Rendezvous with Rama is awesome! I want to continue reading the series but have yet to get to it. I tried to read Foundation by Azimove but could never get into it. Maybe I need to start somewhere else by him?

Paul wrote: "Rendezvous with Raman and Childhood's End are great!"

These are both fantastic novels by Clarke. Loved them both.

A fun place to start with Asimov is The Caves of Steel. I liked the first Foundation novel but it's something I need to be in a different mindset for.

Jason wrote: "Rendezvous with Rama is awesome! I want to continue reading the series but have yet to get to it. "
Yup. I even enjoyed Rama II as well. Rama Revealed, I found the whole thing getting a little long in the tooth. But the first two were fantastic and eerie...

OMG..I'm SO jealous you (Rick) got to meet Asimov! He's my hero!!
I've read a ton of Asimov and Clarke and they are some of my favorite sci fi books. I reread The Foundation series every few years. That is a huge homage coming from me since I rarely reread anything at all.

I think in the past year or two they released Asimov's Empire books on the Kindle format and I read those three books also (I had never read them before). The Empire books are set in the same universe as The Foundation books.

SubterraneanCatalyst wrote: "OMG..I'm SO jealous you (Rick) got to meet Asimov! He's my hero!!
I've read a ton of Asimov and Clarke and they are some of my favorite sci fi books. I reread The Foundation series every few years..."

Cool to hear that about the Empire books on Kindle. I've never read them and probably should.

Arthur C Clark's "The Star" a very short story that Blew me away. A 10 minute read that's (legally) available all over the Internet.

Just finished Seveneves by Neal Stephenson. I really enjoyed it. It is jam packed with hard science, as I understand the term.

Does anyone want to buddy read The Punch Escrow?

Brick wrote: "Recently finished Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke. Great book! I've read I Robot by Asimov and it was an excellent read!"

Arthur C Clarke is my favorite science fiction writer, though Asimov is great too. Childhood's End is my favorite all-time book.
Robert B Marcus Jr

Kurt wrote: "SubterraneanCatalyst wrote: "OMG..I'm SO jealous you (Rick) got to meet Asimov! He's my hero!!
I've read a ton of Asimov and Clarke and they are some of my favorite sci fi books. I reread The Foun..."

The Galactic Empire trilogy is a great part of Asimov's universe. The first two - "Pebble in the Sky"(1950) and "The Stars, Like Dust" (1951) and were actually the first SF novels he wrote that weren't mash-ups of short stories written previously - "I, Robot" (1950) and "Foundation" (1951).