[LarryLied]

Yes, they are both, Asimov and Dick, good reads. I prefer the later because Philip K. Dick captured life as it is-- darkly humorous, ultimately unknowable but with a divine presence in it somewhere. Asimov wrote about life as he would like it to be.

[general_re]

I had the misfortune to read "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" after seeing the movie, and that colored it the first time I read it. After many re-readings, I've gradually come to the conclusion that the movie doesn't really do the book justice.

It's a shame so much of his other stuff is out of print....

[PhilDragoo]

Just looking for a place to hang my only Isaac Asimov association.

I read I, Robot about 1962. It was terribly touching.

At that time I had a friend building robots and learned about microswitches and relays.

When he was tired of one we would destroy it with "flamethrowers"--syringes of antifreeze shot through candle flames.

Nothing like an anthropomorphic robot has evolved; only welders of Saturns and Sony pets.

If you don't count Al Gore.

Or the Asimovimagination.

[Doctor Stochastic]

You really like Dick's pro-drug books? (Like Our Friends from Frolix 8). Or his anti-drug books? (Like Through a Scanner Darkly).

Dick is one of two SciFi authors that I kept when cleaning out the shelves. The other is Philip José Farmer.