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   From: bredband.net@ojevind.lang   
      
   "Steve Morrison"  skrev i meddelandet   
   news:KridnVflMLDw4hjXnZ2dnUVZ_vKdnZ2d@posted.toastnet...   
      
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   > Somewhere (possibly his autobiography?) Asimov said he avoided writing   
   > about aliens for years because of John Campbell's attitude toward them:   
   > humanity always had to be superior in some unique way, such as having a   
   > sense of humor when no other species did. Asimov was deeply   
   > uncomfortable with such human exceptionalism, and simply chose after a   
   > while to set his stories in a "humans-only galaxy", even though he   
   > considered it a hugely implausible concept. In fact, he expressed   
   > annoyance at the fact that he was sometimes credited with inventing   
   > the humans-only galaxy, as though it were some sort of literary   
   > advance.   
      
   Now that you mention it, I believe I have read that too. If not by Asimov,   
   then by someone else. And, as I said in another post, Asimov depicted aliens   
   in an interesting and sympatetic way in "The Gods Themselves", written long   
   after Campbell's death.   
      
   Öjevind   
      
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