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I've read lots of sci-fi, but never Foundation. Knowing how well-regarded it is among fans of the genre, hearing it described as "people sitting in rooms talkin

• kaashif 4y ago
  Researching it now, I think Asimov actually had aphantasia, he talks about how he can't visualise at all: > IA: "I have no talent whatsoever for writing movie scripts." > Interviewer:"How can this be." > IA: "Easy. The requirements are different." > Interviewer: "Writing character or..." > IA: "Well you have to have a picture in your mind. You can't just tell a story. You have to at all times know what's on the screen." > Interviewer: "Visual medium." > IA: "And it's useless to ask me to do that. I never see anything that I write, I only hear it. Conversations, all that I'm aware of. That's why my books are so "talky". One of the reviews of Nemesis says it's talky (oh what do they know) but it's true. It's great talk but he wouldn't know that." > Interviewer: "But what you talk about is visualizable." > IA: "I suppose, but that's purely accidental." From this Reddit comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/Aphantasia/comments/euvz05/apparently_andrej_sapkowski_author_of_the_witcher/ffu1t1p/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Aphantasia/comments/euvz05/apparent... although the video linked appears to be dead.