Asimov's Sci Fi mag under attack

Elionwyr • Feb 21, 2004 10:30 am

This is one of the scariest things I've read in a long time.

http://woodtv.com/Global/story.asp?s=%20%201645394

Happy Monkey • Feb 21, 2004 11:12 am

I still have a crate of old Asimov's, from when Asimovv himself still wrote a column. Great magazine.. If my "to read" shelf wasn't overflowing, I'd probably subscribe again.

xoxoxoBruce • Feb 21, 2004 3:56 pm

Sound's like everyone along the line, was judging the book by it's cover or more accurately by it's title. Asimov + Sci-Fi = OK.

Great magazine.. If my "to read" shelf wasn't overflowing, I'd probably subscribe again.

Monkey, you wrote that after reading about the content that was objectionable to the mother and media? Hmmm.:)

wolf • Feb 21, 2004 5:59 pm

Wow. Asimov's SF sure has changed since I was a subscriber.

Never remember anything even near that "exciting" in there, unless you count getting that special feeling of excitement when there was a new Harlan Ellison story being published ...

Happy Monkey • Feb 21, 2004 10:55 pm

Hey, while I was in junior high, Asimov's turned me on to one of my favorite SF books, John Varley's Steel Beach, a book with a fair amount of unusual sexual content. Why would I want to deny that to the next generation?

Happy Monkey • Feb 21, 2004 10:57 pm

Originally posted by xoxoxoBruce
Sound's like everyone along the line, was judging the book by it's cover or more accurately by it's title. Asimov + Sci-Fi = OK.

Don't be too quick...

xoxoxoBruce • Feb 21, 2004 11:33 pm

OK, but how many people have heard of Asimov, but never read him, at least extensively, and Sci-Fi means Twilight Zone.
Like I said, judging a book by it's (perceived) cover.:D

Troubleshooter • Feb 26, 2004 11:56 am

Originally posted by xoxoxoBruce
OK, but how many people have heard of Asimov, but never read him, at least extensively, and Sci-Fi means Twilight Zone.
Like I said, judging a book by it's (perceived) cover.:D

Speaking of Asimov, and I may have brought this up before, who here else here is pissed about them renaming the Asimovian Laws of Robotics as 3 Laws Safe in the new "I, Robot" movie?

http://www.irobotnow.com/index.php

Happy Monkey • Feb 26, 2004 12:12 pm

Originally posted by Troubleshooter
Speaking of Asimov, and I may have brought this up before, who here else here is pissed about them renaming the Asimovian Laws of Robotics as 3 Laws Safe in the new "I, Robot" movie?

They didn't rename them. In Asimov's books, they were never named after him, obviously. They were just called "the three laws". The "I Robot" ads are in the form of an advertizing campaign for a personal robot, which is advertized as being "3 laws safe". In other words, safe because they follow the three laws.

xoxoxoBruce • Feb 26, 2004 12:25 pm

From the link I get:
Company = Irobot
product = NS-5
a feature of product= 3 Laws Safe

Under 3 Laws Safe it says trademark and copyright 2004 TCF
What is TCF, another company licensing some sort of software or safe guards to Irobot?