Asimov was the reason why we changed some rules in the SFWA, and I'm not convinced we changed it for the best.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's hard not to like Asimov; he's a really likable guy.
I had the honor of speaking with Asimov. The album ended up being something not directly related to Asimov, but related instead to the concept of the power of robotics.
A large fraction of the most interesting scientists have read a lot of SF at one time or another, either early enough that it may have played a part in their becoming scientists or at some later date just because they liked the ideas.
So the thing I realized rather gradually - I must say starting about 20 years ago now that we know about computers and things - there's a possibility of a more general basis for rules to describe nature.
Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.
The other one I did was 'I, Robot.' I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world.
Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.
There's so much that we just accept, but the reasons behind how certain rules came to be are so fascinating and funny, it just increases your affection for language.
I didn't know that there were many rules in music when I first started writing.
Literature invents its own rules.