Books : Anybody here read ISAAC ASIMOV or ARTHUR C CLARKE?
Re: Anybody here read ISAAC ASIMOV or ARTHUR C CLARKE?
I avidly read Asimov when I was a kid. I've never read Clarke.
Clarke is wrong about magic and he betrays the ignorance of any rational materialist atheist. Magic comes from the supernatural. It's 100% daemonic in it's source. Anything which can be explained scientifically is not magic.
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Clarke is wrong about magic and he betrays the ignorance of any rational materialist atheist. Magic comes from the supernatural. It's 100% daemonic in it's source. Anything which can be explained scientifically is not magic.
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Re: Anybody here read ISAAC ASIMOV or ARTHUR C CLARKE?
The Decades-Long Flame War Between Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Asimov
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/sci-fi-fantasy/the-secret-decades-long-flame-war-between-arthur-c-clarke-and-isaac-asimov/
Robert A. Heinlein, Philip K. Dick and Frank Herbert
The greatest SF work about rationality is "Foundation" (Asimov), the greatest SF work about technology is "Rendezvous with Rama" (Clarke), and the greatest SF work about humanity is "Stranger in a Strange Land" (Heinlein). Reading these three gives a pretty good overview of what mid-20th century SF was all about.
Wells, Bradbury and Gibson
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/sci-fi-fantasy/the-secret-decades-long-flame-war-between-arthur-c-clarke-and-isaac-asimov/
Robert A. Heinlein, Philip K. Dick and Frank Herbert
The greatest SF work about rationality is "Foundation" (Asimov), the greatest SF work about technology is "Rendezvous with Rama" (Clarke), and the greatest SF work about humanity is "Stranger in a Strange Land" (Heinlein). Reading these three gives a pretty good overview of what mid-20th century SF was all about.
Wells, Bradbury and Gibson
Anybody here read ISAAC ASIMOV or ARTHUR C CLARKE?