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>Alberto, your knowledge of the Foundation stories and the BBB trilogy is
>really impressive, much greater than mine.
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I guess I have a higher tendency to "escapism" than most people.
When I like a story series, I immerse myself in it.
>I'm going to have to go look up
>"Stars Like Dust." It's been quite a few years.
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>Those are very good examples. They bring up an interesting point, too: Is
>the history of Asimov's universe as presented in the new trilogy any more
>"real" than the one that readers may have imagined for themselves? Do we
>have to take it as cannon because it was endorsed by the Asimov estate?
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The term I use for it is "deutero-canon". And the term I use for
fan-fiction and what we imagine is "apocripha".
BTW, I am compiling [for now, just in my head] a list of things
that make the BBB Trilogy worth buying. I will post it here and
in the Asimov mailing list.
Hmmm... I guess I will post here, get flamed, improve it, and
then post in the Asimov mailing list. O:-)
>Personally, I'd like to think of them as being a sort of alternate
>history.
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Alternate History to an Alternate History? There ain't no need
to complicate things :-)
Alberto Monteiro
