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19. Twilight
20. Breaking Dawn
21. Eclipse
22. You are here
23. The Gods Themselves
24. Fahrenheit 451 The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov Renee
Thank for the detailed reply! I'll give The Gods Themselves a pass--too many other things I know I want to read to take a chance on a book that doesn't sound that good and that I would have to track down. :-) I do have Canticle for Liebowitz and plan to read it this year. I didn't ... ... I was more into fantasy than science fiction -- still am. Not sure where the impulse came from to buy Asimov.
As far as The Gods Themselves goes, I must confess that I'm not sure why it won the Hugo and the Nebula (unless he won the awards "cumulatively"). I agree with one of the central ... ... I just finished The Left Hand of Darkness last week (review is on my 999 thread)--reading the comments on the LT page for The Gods Themselves there seems to be one element of the alien cultures that might be similar. LH takes place on a planet where the population is bi-sexual, each ... ... favorite mystery authors. Lucking into the ARC at work was the highlight of the week. Of course, I should've been reading The Gods Themselves by Asimov for book group Friday night. {sigh}
Fingers crossed I can get my PC fixed soon and stop using the library computer (and start reading ... ... fair to go for Childhood's End since my memory of it was a confused one rather than an enlightened one. For Asimov, maybe The Gods Themselves cause that is the one my memory says was his best.
... a science fiction book (LibrarianLost also suggested this last night). Two I propose for consideration for August are, The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov, and The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin The Gods Themselves by Asimov.
I'm pretty sure the Culture series should have a nomination, the first of which is
Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks (which I think I bought because of the T.S. Eliot reference, which is in turn referencing other stuff which has since fallen into the murky ... ... A Fire Upon the Deep, and The Diamond Age. Most of the ones I've read are still on my book shelves, although the The Gods Themselves and the Pohl seem to have wandered away. I haven't read Spin or Hominids or Blue Mars or Forever Peace or Hyperion, although I think I started ... ... (215p; 14 January 2009)
Miracle and Other Christmas Stories by Connie Willis (328p; 24 March 2009)
The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov (3 July 2009)
Druids by Morgan Llywelyn (400p; 3 August 2009)
... by Ken Kesey (comes from a children's rhyme)
Sometimes a Great Notion also by Ken Kesey (comes from a Leadbelly song)
The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov (comes from the Shakespeare play Troilus and Cressida)
The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck (comes from Macbeth) ... I first started out on usenet, I used my real name.
I eventually decided that a nickname was in order and was reading The Gods Themselves so picked dua.
I discovered a couple of years later that Dua is a form of prayer in Islam, which somehow didn't seem terribly appropriate for a Christ ... There's Isaac Asimov's The Gods Themselves. An alien race that has three sexes. I haven't read that one yet myself, so don't have much more in the way of details for you. An old-school classic, The gods themselves by Isaac Asimov, fits the bill. The Gods Themselves is a unique work by Asimov. It isn't one of the Empire or Robot works... in that way it's like The End of Eternity (which unfortunately, got tied into Empire/Robot at the end...)
The aliens in that book are truly, wonderfully alien. If Asimov wrote all of his books like ... ... really is. He was the best first-draft-writer in the business, but he rarely went beyond that first draft. (I think his The Gods Themselves transcended his other work by a mile, but that's a different story.)
As to the behavior between husband and wife, Asimov was used to writing for ... >76 Cliff, have you ever tried The Gods Themselves? I slogged through the Foundation series too, but the latter was, IMHO, pretty damn good.
And Jack Vance WAS Ellery Queen, for four or five novels at least....*smirk*.
Something Wicked This Way Comes is a quote fromShakespear
The Gods Themselves (and it's section titles) comes from a quote by Friedrich Schiller
Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls is from the Bible (Job 30:29 apparently)
Once Upon a Time is a pretty standard fairy tale opening
... ... indicated there, but this list seems to show only
Pebble in the Sky
I, Robot
Caves of Steel
Naked Sun
The Gods Themselves
Foundation's Edge
and so seems to be incomplete.
It also shows some later Doubleday "Signed limited editions" which might be the same ... #39
I don't think Asimov had all that many great books in him - probably just The Gods Themselves. The others ranged from good to not so good. Although special mention must be made of the original Foundation books but you would need all three of them.
I also think you are right that it ... ... translation issues here, the book was definitely worthwhile and would definitely fit what you are looking for ... as would The gods themselves by Asimov ... ... and novels. I never got very excited about the novels he wrote in the 80s and 90s. I'll second KromesTomes mention of The Gods Themselves as one of his best works.
As a scientist I love the way he was able to explain science to non-experts. I've had experience in just how difficult ... I'll toss out one I loved that doesn't seem to get a lot of mention: The gods themselves!
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