(July 17, 2025 at 10:33 am)Nanny Wrote: Just reread Foundation. The lack of female characters seems strange in my current perspective.
Asimov learned his trade in pulp fiction where the writers didn't know what to do with women (how to involve them into the plot) so he avoided female characters because he also didn't know how to handle them.
Here's an explanation from his memoirs:
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teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
