I remember being at the 1983(or about) World Science Fiction Convention where Isaac Asimov was asked if he was upset that Lucas had ripped off so much of the Fo

I remember being at the 1983(or about) World Science Fiction Convention where Isaac Asimov was asked if he was upset that Lucas had ripped off so much of the Foundation Trilogy. Asimov replied he was a flattered. And in any case, Asimov said he used Edward Gibbon's "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" as source material for Foundation