![]() Carefully planned and thought out "caracter development" can sometimes be a drag. ![]() Asimov is certainly a somewhat overrated writer, but he is much more readable than some highly praised but dry and academic writers like Ursula le Guin. I too became annoyed and had to look it up in the first edition! As for lack of "character development", that complaint is true enough, but in my opinion it is rather an asset, not a drawback in stories of this kind. Perhaps the reader should have said "end of quotation" or something like that. ![]() ![]() These quotations are meant only as glimpses, but when read aloud they certainly give the impression of having been cut by accident. Someone complained about partial loss of sentences, but citations from the "Galactic Encyclopedia" are actually truncated in the original text also and ends abruptly in the middle of sentences with a series of dots. ![]()
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