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beamjockey ([personal profile] beamjockey) wrote2007-01-02 08:03 pm
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Remembering Doctor A

Today is Isaac Asimov's 87th birthday.

I only met him once, but I read fifty or sixty of his books, so I owe many memories to him.
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[identity profile] drzarron.livejournal.com 2007-01-03 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
I dig your Icon.. Bill and Barry in 3-D!!

[identity profile] dd-b.livejournal.com 2007-01-03 04:41 pm (UTC)(link)
And 87 wouldn't be all that old for him to still be alive, even. Sigh.

I have little idea how many of his books I've read, probably in the same range as you; but it occurs to me that he may be the author that I've read the *smallest* percentage of the works of (that I've read any of at all), because his output was so high (including fiction and non-fiction together).

[identity profile] purpleranger.livejournal.com 2007-01-03 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
The first Asimov I ever read was his novelization of FANTASTIC VOYAGE. Yeah, Raquel Welch turned me on to Isaac Asimov.
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[identity profile] theengineer.livejournal.com 2007-01-04 05:13 am (UTC)(link)
I would have *loved* to have met him.

[identity profile] serge-lj.livejournal.com 2007-01-04 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I remember seeing him at the first worldcon I ever attended, Boston's in 1980. It took a few worldcons before I could get him to autograph anything because the lines were always so darn long. At that first worldcon's autograph session, I eventually noticed that the person right behind me was writer Patricia McKillip. While I was chatting with her, her fellow writer Ellen Kushner showed up and, upon seeing my French edition of I, Robot, with its photo of a young Asimov, exclaimed "He looks like Clark Kent!"

Come to think of it, was the Good Doctor ever seen anywhere near kryptonite?
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