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I definitely remember sex in both, the foundation as well as the robot series. However, I agree with the point of your second paragraph. You may be illustrating
by kingsley_20 18y ago
I definitely remember sex in both, the foundation as well as the robot series. However, I agree with the point of your second paragraph.
You may be illustrating your point better than you had planned to- your example of Asimov doesn't quite hold up, but your general point does.
- SwellJoe 18y agoI definitely remember sex in both You have a vivid imagination. The sex scenes are perhaps the mildest of any modern scifi I can think of...and they came in later novels, perhaps after he was thoroughly confident no one took his writing lightly. He also practically murdered the one actually sexually explicit story he wrote in his early career (The Portable Star), by insuring it wasn't published again in any collection during his life. Compare Asimov to any of his contemporaries...Heinlein, Farmer, Dick, etc. Clarke was also a bit more "polite", and I guess, also more inclined toward people taking his work more seriously and thinking more about the serious issues he was addressing. Of course, he also felt that he just wasn't very good at writing female characters or romantic subjects, so he avoided it for the sake of his readers. So, if we're being entirely strict about using Asimov as an example, it also falls apart because he had several reasons for not doing sex very often...not just wanting to be taken seriously.