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Feb. 28th, 2012 02:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seekingferretMy word, these stories I am writing for Purimgifts are a delight, and they're stories I could have written under no other circumstance.
Strangely, about three years after I started posting fic, these stories will be the first I've written that really feel Asimovian. Considering the immense influence Asimov had on my childhood, I'm sure there are Asimovian touches in many of of my stories, (and the drawer stories of my teenage years are full of more overt Asimovian inspriation) but these read like an idea Asimov could have had, and I really feel the hand of Asimov guiding my narrative voice.
I... think that's a good thing? I haven't read anything by Asimov except my periodic I, Robot rereads in at least five years, and I feel like I've mostly outgrown him in the same way I've outgrown Heinlein. (If I forget thee, O Clarke, let my right hand lose its strength) His female characters are notably flimsy and unconvincing and his prose style just doesn't hold up in this post-New Wave era. But Asimov's ideas still accompany me everywhere I go. His conception of a SF story as a puzzle to be solved, something that ought, within certain parameters, to be 'fair' to the reader, shouldn't go away anytime soon. So I'm not upset that I've handed this story over to the Asimov disciple inside me, but I am cautious and careful.
Strangely, about three years after I started posting fic, these stories will be the first I've written that really feel Asimovian. Considering the immense influence Asimov had on my childhood, I'm sure there are Asimovian touches in many of of my stories, (and the drawer stories of my teenage years are full of more overt Asimovian inspriation) but these read like an idea Asimov could have had, and I really feel the hand of Asimov guiding my narrative voice.
I... think that's a good thing? I haven't read anything by Asimov except my periodic I, Robot rereads in at least five years, and I feel like I've mostly outgrown him in the same way I've outgrown Heinlein. (If I forget thee, O Clarke, let my right hand lose its strength) His female characters are notably flimsy and unconvincing and his prose style just doesn't hold up in this post-New Wave era. But Asimov's ideas still accompany me everywhere I go. His conception of a SF story as a puzzle to be solved, something that ought, within certain parameters, to be 'fair' to the reader, shouldn't go away anytime soon. So I'm not upset that I've handed this story over to the Asimov disciple inside me, but I am cautious and careful.