NB: Some of the links [to stories] below contains spoilers/endings [not the complete stories]. If you want to read the stories first, then it would be better not to visit those links.

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What I will be remembered for are the Foundation Trilogy and the Three Laws of Robotics. What I want to be remembered for is no one book, or no dozen books. Any single thing I have written can be paralleled or even surpassed by something someone else has done. However, my total corpus for quantity, quality and variety can be duplicated by no one else. That is what I want to be remembered for.

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A friend of mine, who also is my source of “what’s good happening in reading department”, was once reading short stories by Issac Asimov [Let me clarify, by "Once" I meant some 3 years back]. And as usual he asked me to come back in 2 days, so that once he’s done with this novel, he’ll hand it to me.

I had heard about Asimov’s work but never got the opportunity [or inclination] to read them. And since I’m not too avid “Classics” reader, I simply didn’t gave too much thought to taking the book from him.

And then I saw Bicentennial Man [Well, I am die-hard fan of Robin Williams, but that's another story for another time] and later on I, Robot . Well, I really loved both the movie and then decided that I have to read Issac Asimov’s work. But, as it always happens, I never really got to read any of his work for a long time.

And then in February this year, while I was passing my time in a bookstore waiting for a friend, my eyes Super-Glued to The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories by Issac Asimov and alongside that was Robot Dreams by Issac Asimov . And just out of curiosity I bought both the books [Yeah! Both at once].

But then as the saying goes “There are lots of slips between the cup and the lips” [or something like that only], I didn’t got the opportunity to really read the books until recently.

And Boy O’ Boy !!! I was really swept off my feat. Asimov is truly a master in writing SciFi stories. And what an amazing collections of stories both the books turned out to be. I really love “Robot Dreams” [the story]. If you love reading Sci-Fi, then Asimov is THE author to read.

The last novel I read [ironically it also happened to be the last one he wrote] is The Naked Sun , a futuristic murder mystery.

I still have a long way to go, untill I read most of his works. But if you had read his work, feel free to let me know what are your impressions of Issac Asimov’s work.

TAGS: Novels . Stories . Issac Asimov . SciFi . fiction . Robots . Robotics