(October 20, 2021 at 8:56 pm)Fireball Wrote: If one has read Asimov's stories, they are so cogently written, with a lot of subtleties and convolutions, that it's no surprise that he could dice up the buy-bull. I have to be on my game, even reading his older writings, tp get it all. He wrote some incredibly convoluted murder mysteries, as well. The man was brilliant, no question.
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