Interesting about KSR's thesis! I've bounced off his Mars trilogy but liked parts of the three California books. (Some parts of each of them, none of them wholeheartedly.) I've also survived Years of Rice and Salt. The one KSR story I can still rec is "Lucky Strike," which SH has reprinted recently. (When I reread it there, the text had a few minor errors--not sure whether those have been corrected.)
I remember finding Gods Themselves really fascinating at thirteen, as nearly the last thing by Asimov I read before running out of library fodder, but I have not tried rereading. Foundation was always a bounce, though I did like parts of the robot books despite everything; I also liked some of his non-fiction essays, and "The Last Question."
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Date: 2014-12-15 18:10 (UTC)I remember finding Gods Themselves really fascinating at thirteen, as nearly the last thing by Asimov I read before running out of library fodder, but I have not tried rereading. Foundation was always a bounce, though I did like parts of the robot books despite everything; I also liked some of his non-fiction essays, and "The Last Question."