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When Isaac Asimov Burned Robert Heinlein [Literary Feuds]
io9.com - 10/24/2008
When Isaac Asimov Burned Robert Heinlein [Literary Feuds]
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Personalities don't get much bigger than Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov, two giants of the genre. Though their views often clashed, the two spoke throughout their lives; they first met when Heinlein got Asimov a job at a Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. Primarily their conflict became a political ...

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SF Signal — ... than it used to be." Lyda Morehouse talks about SF/F and Race at SF Novelists: "One of the African-American students made a very compelling case that she actually prefers stories that don't physically describe people in terms of race, because then, she felt, race no longer mattered. The future was color blind. I've heard this argument before, and I've come to understand it. But, respectfully, it doesn't work for me." io9 has the scoop of when Isaac Asimov burned Robert Heinlein. Director David Cronenberg is writing ...

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