Asimov was an exponent of what science fiction author Brian W. He praised my question - something I will never forget - and said, yes, partly it was. Asimov - he was also a scientific historian - if he felt that it was the duty of the sci-fi writer to prepare the rest of us for the future. The high spot - and I see it still in my mind’s eye - was when we were invited to ask questions at the end, and he spotted a young lad in garish trousers with his hand in the air, and accepted his question. The great man with his mutton-chop sideburns talked of many things and captivated us all. I was enchanted to see someone whose work I had read and loved. The doctor arrived in Britain on Jon the SS France and returned to America on the June 16 aboard the famous QE2. It was his only London lecture, as a matter of fact, as he only visited Britain once, no doubt due to the fact that his fear of flying made the United Kingdom a distant shore. With this in mind, my mother organized a birthday present when I was 13 which no young boy could have failed to love: two tickets to a London lecture by Isaac Asimov. When I was a young teenager, like many boys of my generation, I devoured science fiction, and could often be found with my snout inside some garishly-covered paperback by Robert A. Some ages are lukewarm and complacent, and then it is our business to soothe them yet faster asleep. A Look Inside the Playbook, Anthony Napoleon & Yevgeni Yevtushenkov Back in mother USSR, we used to play a game called “hide the thimble.” The interesting thing about that game involved the requirement that the player hide the thimble in plain sight for all to see.
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