Isaac Asimov's ability to take the Big Ideas so crucial to the sense of wonder in science fiction and embody them in compellingly human stories and s… - Isaac Asimov

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Isaac Asimov's ability to take the Big Ideas so crucial to the sense of wonder in science fiction and embody them in compellingly human stories and settings — particularly in his robot stories, Foundation works, and other speculative fiction both long and short — raised the bar high for all of us who have followed him in the tradition of idea-driven science fiction. Asimov was a law unto himself, yet he gave his fellow writers laws — of robotics, and psychohistory — that have shaped all of us who have tried to write of machine intelligence or of human civilizations vast in time and space. That is his great and vital legacy. — Howard V. Hendrix