The robot mysteries are better. One thing you have to say about Asimov is that he wrote A LOT. All sorts of things from science text books to non sci-fi mysteries. Probably one of the more prolific popular writers. The prose style doesn’t sparkle but is adequate most of the time, some really good ideas.
Here’s a 1982 interview with Asimov, maniac Harlan Ellison, and the great Gene Wolfe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZvcKB9vQO0
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And about the Bible as well. I heard him speak when I was an undergrad. Impressive man, and I rarely say that.
Asimov: One's view of humanity is that which we recognize in ourselves.
A letter to Gene Wolf from a nuclear physicist friend: My experiments in time reversal are going slower than I would like.
Ellison come across to me as an insufferable, nitpicking, egotistical, self-centered bore.
On Hollywood sci-fi movies: Take away the special effects and there is little to nothing left.
Asimov on writing about a different world/time/place: Its the little details - the ordinary, pedestrian - which have noting to do with the plot which make the story seem real.
Asimov on robots: If robots are not allowed to harm you, then the least you can do is not harm the robot - The Bicentennial Man.
Poster on the YouTube page: Gene Wolfe is the man who made science fiction into full blood art literature on par with Dostoyevsky and Dante.
Comments made that shows like this would never be broadcast by modern TV/Cable networks.
Link to a simular show with Harlan Ellison and J. Michael Straczynkski (JMS).