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Review title: This book is an embarassment to a great sf writer
Product review: As Martin Amis once pointed out, every anecdote Asimov tells involves him tossing off a witticism and ends with "Everyone laughed." Well, reading this book you might enjoy laughing at Asimov as he tries to pass platitudes off as deep thinking and flaunts that famous ego nonstop. You'll be laughing and laughing until you reach the part where Asimov is joking about what his last words will be and says (after the joke) that really his last words will be an affirmation of love for his wife; his wife here adds an editor's note that, those were, indeed, his last words. And then you go "Awwww" and feel bad for laughing at this poor guy. After all, he did write "Nightfall" and _Foundation_. But this book, this book is awful.If you want to read a good sf memoir, read Pohl's masterful _The Way the Future Was_ and see how it ought to be done; if you want to read a worse one you're goingto be hard pressed (but Anthony's _Bio of an Ogre_ might do the trick).
