I’m going to revise this blog, which has been dormant for a while, and what better way to start than with an Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) story on his birthday. Asimov is one of the classic authors whose work I want to either reread or read for the first time this year.

I read quite a bit of Asimov when I was in middle school and high school and have dipped into his work from time to time since then. I read the Foundation and robot stories, several of the collections (Nightfall, The Bicentennial Man, The Early Asimov, and I think Buy Jupiter) and a couple of the early novels. There’s still a good bit of his work I haven’t read. Plus, it’s been so long since I read most of the above, it will almost be like coming to those works new. Continue reading →