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This story is great, I want to checkout the author now! The demon seems less of an actual evil being and more as a person who gets excited about awesome stories

This story is great, I want to checkout the author now! The demon seems less of an actual evil being and more as a person who gets excited about awesome stories, uses ying yang guide the vine of destiny. Maybe half expecting a smile only to see horror. I know this is now the best place for poetry, but this story was very fun to read

lake99 11y ago
This is not Asimov's usual style. The book you should be looking for is "Azazel", later re-packaged as "Magic". It's never establishes that Azazel is a demon. The book vacillates between "demon" and "technologically advanced extraterrestrial being".
imron 11y ago
You want to check out the author? .... Isaac Asimov... Yeah, you should probably do that.
- solipsism 11y ago
  I checked out a bibliography. Seems like lots of derivative stuff playing on the same old memes you see everywhere.
  - deleted 11y ago
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  - PhasmaFelis 11y ago
    Most of those memes are memes because Asimov invented them. You sound like I guy I once heard complain that The Lord of the Rings was just a collection of D&D cliches.
    - EGreg 11y ago
      Actually I think it is a knockoff of the Ring Cycle by Wagner :)
      - PhasmaFelis 11y ago
        I realize you're probably being sarcastic, but I've heard people claim that in all seriousness, so just for the record: that is definitely not true, and I can't imagine anyone thinking it was true unless they were completely ignorant of the myths and stories that both Wagner and Tolkien drew from. (Much like the folks who claim Star Wars is a ripoff of Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress, which shows ignorance of the dozens of other classic films that Lucas quite openly referenced and homaged.) It's like claiming that Sonic the Hedgehog is a ripoff of Super Mario Bros.
    - stvswn 11y ago
      "I tried to read Shakespeare, but the storylines were so cliched... like every romantic comedy..." "I don't like the Beatles, I've heard that pop style a million times before"
      - yoklov 11y ago
        I think the latter is fairly reasonable. They may have invented it, but at this point it has been done an awful lot, and someone could be forgiven for being sick of it. Shakespeare's writing OTOH is still outstanding even if the stories are cliche (and they were cliche at the time as well)
  - golergka 11y ago
    http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunny http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunny
  - dgacmu 11y ago
    it's probably little consolation, but I thought your comment was hilarious. :)
    - PhasmaFelis 11y ago
      You gotta watch out for Poe's Law if you're trying to be funny on the internet.
- theoh 11y ago
  Though it looks like the cool kids these days are reading Samuel L. Delany. Edit: chirality error, Samuel R. Delany
kleer001 11y ago
There's a lot to check out. And it's all well worth your time to check out his fiction, non fiction, AND biography. And he's an interesting character, a bit odd, but not offensive like some authors can get. Trivia time: Issac Asimov published books in 9 of the 10 major categories of the dewy decimal system. Personal note: I grew up reading his non fiction articles in the Fantasy and Science Fiction magazine back in the 80's.

lake99 11y ago

This is not Asimov's usual style. The book you should be looking for is "Azazel", later re-packaged as "Magic". It's never establishes that Azazel is a demon. The book vacillates between "demon" and "technologically advanced extraterrestrial being".

imron 11y ago

You want to check out the author? .... Isaac Asimov... Yeah, you should probably do that.

solipsism 11y ago
I checked out a bibliography. Seems like lots of derivative stuff playing on the same old memes you see everywhere.
- deleted 11y ago
  [deleted]
- PhasmaFelis 11y ago
  Most of those memes are memes because Asimov invented them. You sound like I guy I once heard complain that The Lord of the Rings was just a collection of D&D cliches.
  - EGreg 11y ago
    Actually I think it is a knockoff of the Ring Cycle by Wagner :)
    - PhasmaFelis 11y ago
      I realize you're probably being sarcastic, but I've heard people claim that in all seriousness, so just for the record: that is definitely not true, and I can't imagine anyone thinking it was true unless they were completely ignorant of the myths and stories that both Wagner and Tolkien drew from. (Much like the folks who claim Star Wars is a ripoff of Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress, which shows ignorance of the dozens of other classic films that Lucas quite openly referenced and homaged.) It's like claiming that Sonic the Hedgehog is a ripoff of Super Mario Bros.
  - stvswn 11y ago
    "I tried to read Shakespeare, but the storylines were so cliched... like every romantic comedy..." "I don't like the Beatles, I've heard that pop style a million times before"
    - yoklov 11y ago
      I think the latter is fairly reasonable. They may have invented it, but at this point it has been done an awful lot, and someone could be forgiven for being sick of it. Shakespeare's writing OTOH is still outstanding even if the stories are cliche (and they were cliche at the time as well)
- golergka 11y ago
  http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunny http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunny
- dgacmu 11y ago
  it's probably little consolation, but I thought your comment was hilarious. :)
  - PhasmaFelis 11y ago
    You gotta watch out for Poe's Law if you're trying to be funny on the internet.
theoh 11y ago
Though it looks like the cool kids these days are reading Samuel L. Delany. Edit: chirality error, Samuel R. Delany

kleer001 11y ago

There's a lot to check out. And it's all well worth your time to check out his fiction, non fiction, AND biography. And he's an interesting character, a bit odd, but not offensive like some authors can get. Trivia time: Issac Asimov published books in 9 of the 10 major categories of the dewy decimal system. Personal note: I grew up reading his non fiction articles in the Fantasy and Science Fiction magazine back in the 80's.