Good to hear your thoughts on The Gods Themselves. And I especially appreciate how you often will make related recommendations. I predict your channel will explode in subscribers eventually, as long as YT's algorithm will allow it. I watch several sci-fi 'booktube' channels, and yours is possibly my favorite due to how you present your findings. Keep it up!
Thank you kindly Greg, that is very nice of you to say. One of the things I will never change will be my transparency, candid and honest review on these classics. I hope you continue watching and enjoying.
I remember reading in Asimov's autobiography that with Gods Themselves he challenged himself to invent the most non-human aliens that he could. He thought that it was unrealistic for aliens to be that so similar to humans as they are in most SF novels. I did like the ending of the novel. I interpret the whole thing as a metaphor and soft critique of environmentalism. They find this amazing energy source, but then it turns out it has potential world-ending consequences, and yet humanity would still not give it up. In the novel is that they find a separate technical solution to the problem. This was his broad view of technology, that it creates both benefits and problems, and that we use additional technology to fix the problems created by earlier technology. So I take it as him saying that fossil fuels causing global warming will not be enough to get people to give up fossil fuels, and the solution is to further advance our technology.
Thank you for a very insightful message. I remember reading that about TGT as well, and the aliens are very well done in this novel. I've often mentioned on the channel how sometimes these aliens we encounter in SF are just driven by human motivators which I always feel at odds with. It was good for Asimov to push the boundaries. Nice comment, I enjoyed reading your take on the ending. I would have to agree.
7:16 I think it's best to start with "the Caves of Steel" before the Foundation cycle, because the character R. Daneel Olivaw comes up several times in the cycle and is an essential part of it and the plot involving him in "the Caves of Steel".
Its weird, I've been reading science fiction since the early eighties, but I've only read 3 Asimovs, and 2 of those were short story collections. I've got about 20 books by him, but I never get around to reading him. Maybe its time to give him a go.
I definitely recommend it Richard, I'm rereading all the Foundation novels at the moment in preparation to rank Foundation's Edge. That video will be up in around 8 weeks. I will give the whole series a quick round up and share my entire thoughts on it.
I found The God's Themselves to be a fun read. Even though Asimov goes into way too much detail regarding the reproduction of the aliens 😂 Have you read Childhood's End, by Clarke?
hahaha yeah, I should have mentioned that part in my video. It definitely gets a little weird at times lol.. In regards to Childhood's End, yes I have, and absolute classic and I would rank it amongst Clarke's best novels. What a brain buster that one is. I should reread it one of these days, it's been decades since I last read it, but it was one of the novels that first made me a huge Clarke fan. I would consider Clarke my favourite of the big three.
Good to hear your thoughts on The Gods Themselves. And I especially appreciate how you often will make related recommendations. I predict your channel will explode in subscribers eventually, as long as YT's algorithm will allow it. I watch several sci-fi 'booktube' channels, and yours is possibly my favorite due to how you present your findings. Keep it up!
Thank you kindly Greg, that is very nice of you to say. One of the things I will never change will be my transparency, candid and honest review on these classics. I hope you continue watching and enjoying.
That’s a great quote from that poem.
@@CptSamelsSigils brilliant isn't it, I really need to read it
I remember reading in Asimov's autobiography that with Gods Themselves he challenged himself to invent the most non-human aliens that he could. He thought that it was unrealistic for aliens to be that so similar to humans as they are in most SF novels.
I did like the ending of the novel. I interpret the whole thing as a metaphor and soft critique of environmentalism. They find this amazing energy source, but then it turns out it has potential world-ending consequences, and yet humanity would still not give it up. In the novel is that they find a separate technical solution to the problem. This was his broad view of technology, that it creates both benefits and problems, and that we use additional technology to fix the problems created by earlier technology. So I take it as him saying that fossil fuels causing global warming will not be enough to get people to give up fossil fuels, and the solution is to further advance our technology.
Thank you for a very insightful message. I remember reading that about TGT as well, and the aliens are very well done in this novel. I've often mentioned on the channel how sometimes these aliens we encounter in SF are just driven by human motivators which I always feel at odds with. It was good for Asimov to push the boundaries. Nice comment, I enjoyed reading your take on the ending. I would have to agree.
7:16 I think it's best to start with "the Caves of Steel" before the Foundation cycle, because the character R. Daneel Olivaw comes up several times in the cycle and is an essential part of it and the plot involving him in "the Caves of Steel".
@@Gilbrae it's definitely a great place to start
Interesting ranking - it has the QWAN
Its weird, I've been reading science fiction since the early eighties, but I've only read 3 Asimovs, and 2 of those were short story collections. I've got about 20 books by him, but I never get around to reading him. Maybe its time to give him a go.
I definitely recommend it Richard, I'm rereading all the Foundation novels at the moment in preparation to rank Foundation's Edge. That video will be up in around 8 weeks. I will give the whole series a quick round up and share my entire thoughts on it.
The Foundation series are my favourite books, sci-fi or otherwise. Liking science fiction and not reading Asimov seems like the strangest idea to me.
@@janpersson9818 they definitely have that Asimov factor indeed
I found The God's Themselves to be a fun read. Even though Asimov goes into way too much detail regarding the reproduction of the aliens 😂
Have you read Childhood's End, by Clarke?
hahaha yeah, I should have mentioned that part in my video. It definitely gets a little weird at times lol.. In regards to Childhood's End, yes I have, and absolute classic and I would rank it amongst Clarke's best novels. What a brain buster that one is. I should reread it one of these days, it's been decades since I last read it, but it was one of the novels that first made me a huge Clarke fan. I would consider Clarke my favourite of the big three.