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Sucker Bait/Un-Man/to the Storming Gulf
Stated First Bart Books Printing in Fine condition. Contains "Sucker Bait" by Asimov, "Un-Man" by Anderson and "To the Storming Gulf" by Benford.
- GenresScience Fiction
256 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1988
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About the author
Isaac Asimov
4,339 books27.8k followersWorks of prolific Russian-American writer Isaac Asimov include popular explanations of scientific principles,
The Foundation Trilogy
(1951-1953), and other volumes of fiction.
Isaac Asimov, a professor of biochemistry, wrote as a highly successful author, best known for his books.
Asimov, professor, generally considered of all time, edited more than five hundred books and ninety thousand letters and postcards. He published in nine of the ten major categories of the Dewey decimal classification but lacked only an entry in the category of philosophy (100).
People widely considered Asimov, a master of the genre alongside Robert Anson Heinlein and Arthur Charles Clarke as the "big three" during his lifetime. He later tied Galactic Empire and the Robot into the same universe as his most famous series to create a unified "future history" for his stories much like those that Heinlein pioneered and Cordwainer Smith and Poul Anderson previously produced. He penned "Nightfall," voted in 1964 as the best short story of all time; many persons still honor this title. He also produced well mysteries, fantasy, and a great quantity of nonfiction. Asimov used Paul French, the pen name, for the Lucky Starr, series of juvenile novels.
Most books of Asimov in a historical way go as far back to a time with possible question or concept at its simplest stage. He often provides and mentions well nationalities, birth, and death dates for persons and etymologies and pronunciation guides for technical terms. Guide to Science, the tripartite set Understanding Physics, and Chronology of Science and Discovery exemplify these books.
Asimov, a long-time member, reluctantly served as vice president of Mensa international and described some members of that organization as "brain-proud and aggressive about their IQs." He took more pleasure as president of the humanist association. The asteroid 5020 Asimov, the magazine Asimov's Science Fiction, an elementary school in Brooklyn in New York, and two different awards honor his name.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_As...
Isaac Asimov, a professor of biochemistry, wrote as a highly successful author, best known for his books.
Asimov, professor, generally considered of all time, edited more than five hundred books and ninety thousand letters and postcards. He published in nine of the ten major categories of the Dewey decimal classification but lacked only an entry in the category of philosophy (100).
People widely considered Asimov, a master of the genre alongside Robert Anson Heinlein and Arthur Charles Clarke as the "big three" during his lifetime. He later tied Galactic Empire and the Robot into the same universe as his most famous series to create a unified "future history" for his stories much like those that Heinlein pioneered and Cordwainer Smith and Poul Anderson previously produced. He penned "Nightfall," voted in 1964 as the best short story of all time; many persons still honor this title. He also produced well mysteries, fantasy, and a great quantity of nonfiction. Asimov used Paul French, the pen name, for the Lucky Starr, series of juvenile novels.
Most books of Asimov in a historical way go as far back to a time with possible question or concept at its simplest stage. He often provides and mentions well nationalities, birth, and death dates for persons and etymologies and pronunciation guides for technical terms. Guide to Science, the tripartite set Understanding Physics, and Chronology of Science and Discovery exemplify these books.
Asimov, a long-time member, reluctantly served as vice president of Mensa international and described some members of that organization as "brain-proud and aggressive about their IQs." He took more pleasure as president of the humanist association. The asteroid 5020 Asimov, the magazine Asimov's Science Fiction, an elementary school in Brooklyn in New York, and two different awards honor his name.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_As...
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November 4, 2021
Sucker Bait - Isaac Asimov - 4⭐
Collected in The Martian Way and Other Stories starship George G. Grundy, or Triple G., has been chartered by the "Confederacy of Worlds" to investigate "Junior". The only non-scientist among the passengers of the Triple G. is our protagonist, 20-year-old Mark Annuncio of the "Mnemonic Service", who has been trained from the age of five to memorize and correlate vast amounts of information. He'll need all his skills to figure out why Junior's previous colonists, all 1000 of them, died despite their repeated calls for help.
A mystery like this could only be written by Asimov, who has several PHDs in hard sciences. This shows of his knowledge in geology, astrophysics, physics, biology and chemistry and this story is hard SCIENCE fiction. Without grounding and knowledge in these fields, this story would not be possible. The protagonist feels like an analogue for Asimov (who also has a photographic memory which made expertise in many fields possible) and the fact that the crew distrusts him for being "different" despite his efforts to save them is exactly how human psychology works. Great story.
Un-Man - Poul Anderson - 3⭐
This psychotechic alternate world novella was nominated for the 1954 retro-Hugo. The title is a play on words, as it could be said that our protagonist, one of many clones of a French Freedom Fighter, is also a United Nations (UN) man, fighting for world unity against bad guys from nationalist sovereign nations. As typical of novels written in the 1950s, it's sexist with the hero being one of the chiseled jaw blonde, blue eyed guys, and the damsel in distress's only goal is to marry him.
To The Storming Gulf - Gregory Benford - 3⭐
Good Ole' Southern boys on Earth are being oppressed by bad guy colonies from outer space. This kind of rubbed me the wrong way because there are bad people from every walk of life, including plenty of racist "good" ole boys which the author makes out to be romantic heroes.
Collected in The Martian Way and Other Stories starship George G. Grundy, or Triple G., has been chartered by the "Confederacy of Worlds" to investigate "Junior". The only non-scientist among the passengers of the Triple G. is our protagonist, 20-year-old Mark Annuncio of the "Mnemonic Service", who has been trained from the age of five to memorize and correlate vast amounts of information. He'll need all his skills to figure out why Junior's previous colonists, all 1000 of them, died despite their repeated calls for help.
A mystery like this could only be written by Asimov, who has several PHDs in hard sciences. This shows of his knowledge in geology, astrophysics, physics, biology and chemistry and this story is hard SCIENCE fiction. Without grounding and knowledge in these fields, this story would not be possible. The protagonist feels like an analogue for Asimov (who also has a photographic memory which made expertise in many fields possible) and the fact that the crew distrusts him for being "different" despite his efforts to save them is exactly how human psychology works. Great story.
Un-Man - Poul Anderson - 3⭐
This psychotechic alternate world novella was nominated for the 1954 retro-Hugo. The title is a play on words, as it could be said that our protagonist, one of many clones of a French Freedom Fighter, is also a United Nations (UN) man, fighting for world unity against bad guys from nationalist sovereign nations. As typical of novels written in the 1950s, it's sexist with the hero being one of the chiseled jaw blonde, blue eyed guys, and the damsel in distress's only goal is to marry him.
To The Storming Gulf - Gregory Benford - 3⭐
Good Ole' Southern boys on Earth are being oppressed by bad guy colonies from outer space. This kind of rubbed me the wrong way because there are bad people from every walk of life, including plenty of racist "good" ole boys which the author makes out to be romantic heroes.
October 12, 2022
Muy buena historia me demoré, por que no tuve mucho tiempo, me gustó el personaje de mark y su tutor, aunque el final fué un poco difícil, pero me mantuvo en vilo todo el tiempo.
February 28, 2015
I really loved how Sucker Bait worked. Basically, Asimov identifies and describes what Asperger's is and works it - many years before it became a talked about thing. Anyway, as I continue to dig up old Asimov stories I become more and more impressed by him. Great stuff.
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