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Message: [QUOTE="SVCBeercats, post: 3692081, member: 7874"] I like your Mother! As a kid and a young man I only read Asimov's non-fiction books. I considered him the Great Explainer. Any applicaion of Gunning's, Flesch's, Kincaid's , etc. methods of measuring clarity and readability will bear this out. Somewhere in my late 20s I was discussing Heinlein and Bradbury with a new acquaintance when he mentioned Asimov's Foundation series. He was appalled at my ignorance. I had never heard of it and furthermore I didn't know Asimov wrote SciFi. Today, too the best of my knowledge, I own a copy of every Asimov work of fiction, including the short story books he editted. He gets beat up a bit relative to character developement but for me his ideas more than make up for any shortfalls. Although I had a bowling buddy who would get quite worked about Asimov's lack of rich character development. Cardboard characters was his description. Oh! I had a customer, Maritz, in Saint Louis area who contracted with Asimov to give a motivational speech. My customer knew I liked Asimov so he invited me to attend. Asimov was an amazing speaker. He was totally extemporaneous. He asked what folks wanted to hear and he was off and running. Funny, he was! Better than any comedian. And yes he came by train! :) [/QUOTE]