Science fiction is important because it fights the natural … - Isaac Asimov

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Science fiction is important because it fights the natural notion that there's something permanent about things the way they are right now.

Isaac Asimov

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Isaac Asimov (c. 2 January 1920 – 6 April 1992) was a Russian-born American biochemist who was a prolific writer of both fiction and non-fiction, his works include the Foundation series and I, Robot.

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Alternative Names: Isaak Osimov • Paul French • Asimov • Isaak Ozimov • Itzhak Ozimov

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TRADERS … With psychohistoric inevitability, economic control of the Foundation grew. The traders grew rich; and with riches came power … It is sometimes forgotten that Hober Mallow began life as an ordinary trader. It is never forgotten that he ended it as the first of the Merchant Princes

Where the stars are scattered thinly,' quoted Barr, 'And the cold of space seeps in.

Just you think first, and don't bother to speak afterward, either.

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