The captivating rereadability

External Since: Dec 05, 2006 Posts: 38

Boy, you know, it's easy to forget just how hard it is to put
*down* an Asimov book until you've been sorting things to put them
into mailing boxes and flip open (say) The Left Hand Of The Electron
and get lost in a discussion of mirror-asymmetric biochemicals.

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Joseph Nebus
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External Since: Jul 29, 2003 Posts: 54

Joseph Nebus wrote:
> Boy, you know, it's easy to forget just how hard it is to put
> *down* an Asimov book until you've been sorting things to put them
> into mailing boxes and flip open (say) The Left Hand Of The Electron
> and get lost in a discussion of mirror-asymmetric biochemicals.

There is hardly an F&SF Asimov science essay that I haven't read a half
dozen times. The only ones I'm missing are the early ones that never
got collected--I have all the later uncollected ones, and the last one,
"Of Human Folly," is a much better capstone than the hastily assembled
effort in his posthumous book.

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