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- When it comes to written science fiction, the 50s onwards was a period of
- incredible richness. But before delving into the classics of that time, I ought to skip back to H.
- G. Wells. His second great, The First Men in the Moon, is very much of this class.
- With tongue-in-cheek humour and exciting adventure, it bypasses Space Opera and is good
- reading to this day. Picking a handful of classics is almost impossible. But there are some names
- that can't be ignored. First on many lists is liable to be Isaac Asimov . With a prodigious output
- in fiction and non-fiction, Russian born but American to the core, Asimov typified the new
- breed of writer. His characterisations might have been weak, his love interest minimal, but his
- science and rich spattering of ideas were wonderful. Probably best to illustrate this particular
- period are Asimov's trilogy Foundation,
- Foundation and Earth, and Second Foundation.
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