My brother once read a book by Asimov, I forget which, but it was the first time he'd read him, after a long string of Anne McCaffery and couple other women I can't recall; and then walked into the room where my mother and I were and announced that women were incapable of writing science fiction. We asked why he'd come to this conclusion, and he told us it was because this Asimov book was the best thing he'd ever read. He was pretty young, so we were able to straighten him out after a while.
I have to admit, I've hardly read Asimov at all. I read Caves of Steel a couple years ago, and I enjoyed it enough to hope that someday I'll find time to read more. But I was really amused by the language used by the characters, the 1950s, PG cursing. I could understand why it was in there, it just struck me as funny.
Since I haven't read much else, I obviously don't know if that was a thing with him, but I watched some Probe on YouTube, and I got a similar feeling. Is it the 80s? Or is it me? Am I just so jaded that an hour of TV in which no one says "Damn" feels unrealistic?
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Date: 2011-01-25 05:58 pm (UTC)I have to admit, I've hardly read Asimov at all. I read Caves of Steel a couple years ago, and I enjoyed it enough to hope that someday I'll find time to read more. But I was really amused by the language used by the characters, the 1950s, PG cursing. I could understand why it was in there, it just struck me as funny.
Since I haven't read much else, I obviously don't know if that was a thing with him, but I watched some Probe on YouTube, and I got a similar feeling. Is it the 80s? Or is it me? Am I just so jaded that an hour of TV in which no one says "Damn" feels unrealistic?