Damn, I miss this little nigga. I'm reading the "last"

What are good hard sci-fi books, or whatever the fuck that means? I read the Last Question and it was pretty good.

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>>9431840
>I read the Last Question and it was pretty good.

>>9431840
Hard sci-fi means the "science" in it isn't just magic, and the author makes an effort to come up with plausible mechanisms for space travel etc. I think. Asimov was great at this because he was also a pretty good scientist.

Read foundation and then I, Robot. or the other way around, actually.

>Saw this post
>looked to my left to the stack of Asimov sitting by my desk
same

>>9431840
Rendevouz with Rama is pretty great
so is the Ben Bova series about all those little planets, It's been a good ten years though since I was 12 so they may not hold up quite so well as I hoped.

>>9431536
I loved First Foundation. Also, did you read I, Robot? It's a good collection of conected short stories with interesting ideas.

he has a great lil book about the neutrino that's pretty quick

>>9431536
Asimov = dog shit

>>9433498
I'm reading his "Understanding Physics" collection. Very smart hoss.

if you can find John Sladek's "The Steam-Driven Boy and other stories", there's a brutal parody of Asimov's robot stories by "Iclick Asimove"

>>9433489

>Also, did you read I, Robot?

No, but I read the Baley and Daneel saga. It's a sort of prequel of te Foundation Books.

>>9431536
What are you on about? The last books he wrote were dreadful. Have you read Prelude to the Foundation? I feel nauseos just thinking about it.

>>9431536
Didn't they all agree to give up their individuality and be subsumed into the collective at the end?

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