#isaac asimov

[the9mm]

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[thornyenigma]

Hey guys look what we got news on for the first time in eight years literally like two hours after I had been googling it again

[humanoidhistory]

Michael Whelan's cover art for Foundation's Edge by Isaac Asimov, 1983.

[retroscifiart]

Tim White - Prelude to Foundation (Isaac Asimov, 1988)

[travelingcryptologist]

Ralph McQuarrie cover art for Isaac Asimov’s "Robot Visions" and "Robot Dreams". Both homages to Maxfield Parrish’s "Morning" , and Frederic Leighton’s "Flaming June" respectively.

[aster-ish]

Just learned that the word "robot" is derived from the Czech word "robota" which means "forced labor," coined in 1920 for use in the Czech play Rossum's Universal Robots (which! Yes! ROZZUM from The Wild Robot appears to be a reference to)

I'm usually p unwell about robots in literature as it is, but just thinking about it....... their very existence.... inextricably linked to the concept of humanity's greed, arrogance, and cruelty: those themes aren't just a byproduct of what the subject naturally entails, they're implanted deep into the heart of the word itself.........

...and yet, no matter how much we as story writers like to subvert tropes.... no matter how much we as society change, and our stories change with us.... we still can't help but to humanize them. In part because of our pack bonding tendencies, but also because we've seen all too well that a person doesn't need to be artificial to be treated as inhuman. After all, the ones made to do robota were originally humans... Ough.

[crisisofinfinitemultiverses]

Ralph McQuarrie illustration for "Robot Visions" by Isaac Asimov, 1990

[cadmuslabs777]

ISAAC ASIMOV AND GENE RODDENBERRY EXCHANGED LETTERS ABOUT STAR TREK?????!?!?! And Asimov told him to make Kirk and Spock even CLOSER??? Gene started to see Kirk and Spock as One AFTER TALKING TO HIM???? You mean, the guy who wrote about the one sided unrequited homosexual love in strong male friendships in Shakespeare's plays??!! And wrote that into his own duo bc he likes the concept so much?! This explains EVERYTHING.

[lettherebecrows]

This was a really good use of my time.

[joehills]

Isaac Asimov: the first five books of my Foundation series tell how one mathematician became a legend by predicting social forces at interplanetary scales.

Also Asimov: the 6th book will be a prequel about him being dunked on for months straight for not knowing liberal arts like at all. He gets owned so badly by experts in other fields that he repeatedly nearly dies. I’ll open each chapter with an excerpt from an encyclopedia written ten thousand years later that makes this period of Seldon’s life sound historically important and mysterious, but then the actual story is about how this moron doesn’t know the word “religious” or how to use an oven or clock. The novel will stress out the same types of readers who are bothered by It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia because if Craig Mazin, Charlie Day, and Megan Ganz wrote an episode called “Dennis invents Psychohistory” that work would be functionally identical to this novel to all but the shrewdest of branch managers of a regional paper company. While this novel is a prequel, it will advance readers’ understanding of the Foundation setting as ineffective Trantorian leaders trip over themselves trying to capture Seldon, while he continuously fails upward like Bill Murray in the film The Man Who Knew too Little so preposterously and frequently that it will become inescapably thematically clear that his Foundation can only inevitably do the same. I expect this will be a great comfort to readers.

Me: huh, that was a choice.

[thehauntedrocket]

Vintage Paperback - B R-R-R-! by Groff Conklin

Avon (1959)

[magic-crazy-as-this]

Damian Wayne starts reading more literature to engage more with the world, Jason suggests Isaac Asimov and the "I, Robot" stories in particular, 'cause robots are cool.

Unfortunately, Damian learns from this that almost murder technically still fulfils "do not murder" rules.

[humanoidhistory]

Ralph McQuarrie's cover art for Robot Visions by Isaac Asimov, 1990.

[retroscifiart]

Ralph McQuarrie for Isaac Asimov’s Robot Dreams (1986)

[daneelsolivaw]

hope people realize that it’s impossible to be normal about foundation. you’ve got soaking wet buff lee pace, a man who has two holograms each with their own custom mental trauma, a 20,000 year old genderfluid robot with impeccable taste AND trauma, a daughter who’s older than her mother, and three men who are the same man ruling an empire, one of which btw is lee pace. and he is naked. watch this show.

[found-in-retro-game-mags]

TRS-80 Color Computer

"Practical Advice from Isaac Asimov" (Video Games #1, Aug. 1982)