The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov is organized into 3 distinct parts. The first follows a young physicist doing research on the history of the Electron Pump which is a nifty invention providing unlimited energy for all of humanity. He comes to believe that the 'Father of the Electron Pump' is mere...
"Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens."Friedrich SchillerI admired it much more than I actually enjoyed it. Asimov's ideas are brilliant but his characters are somewhat bloodless and cardboard. Even when he tries to work against this it comes out all embarrassing. The third section on th...
A somewhat interesting book that was up and down in holding my interest. It does wrap up the story very well in the end and the last part raised my rating from a 3 to a 4.
A somewhat interesting book that was up and down in holding my interest. It does wrap up the story very well in the end and the last part raised my rating from a 3 to a 4.
The title of this book is a part of a longer title, which is used to split up the three sections of the book: Against Stupidity the Gods Themselves Contend in Vain'. I believe that that is actually an Ancient Greek saying, which is not surprising at all. Nope, as it turns out I am incorrect (thankyo...
Although Asimov has written better stories, this one was pretty good. I think it may be the only one where he actually writes about aliens and even alien sex. There is also some good hard science here.
It's not that easy to create believable, vivid characters the reader can relate and sympathize with. Asimov achieves that despite the handicap that his characters are clouds of floating gas. One of his best novels.Featured in my Top 5 Weird Science-Fiction Novels: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZMH...
I know I have said this before about other good books but I really do wonder how I missed this one. I've read a good majority of Asimov's works and considering the esteem this is held in I'm slightly lessened by not having read this earlier. I've always loved Asimov best out of the science fiction g...
Read this as a kid, and didn't get it. Upon rereading, it's kickass.The first section belabors very well a nice joke from Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions, proposing a change to the physics of the universe, building an elaborate Tesla-style economics on them, and then exposing how no one ...
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