Favorite Asimov passages from non-Sci-Fi book

[Meffy]

IIRC he was considered an honorary Black Widower of sorts. If not, color me corrected.

BTW, for an even longer list of paper inventions, check out Hugo Gernsback's own 1911 novel, Ralph 124C 41+. Terrible story but it's got more gizzies than you can shake a telephot at.

 

[chracatoa]

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent" (Salvor Hardin in Foundation).

I liked the Black Widowers series, but I wish he had written a mystery novel (maybe he has - I don't know. He wrote so many books!). They actually had very few murders to solve, most of it were little problems.

I think that "The End of Eternity" is his masterpiece, and I also loved the Aurora novels, although I find it hard to believe that people would live only underground.

ETA: Foundation is a Sci-fi book, so this is a little off-topic

 

[CrossHair]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe the Black Widowers ever solved any mystery. They were all solved by Henry (I think), the waiter.

Actually it was always "Griswald" that solved the problem/mystery. He was the old gent that was always half asleep sitting in a chair holding a scotch. The stories usually involved the other gents at the club mentioning some mystery to see if Griswald would take the bait and wake up to tell some fantastic story about his past life as a spy/agent.

In my OP I wrote a long quote from an Asimov "Mystery" called "Murder At The ABA" which IS actually a standard murder mystery book. At the very end of the book Asimov reveals that he actually DID say the quote I listed at the American Booksellers Association in 1975, and that the panel mentioned actually DID occur with the listed panelists!!

 

[alfaniner]

Actually it was always "Griswald" that solved the problem/mystery. He was the old gent that was always half asleep sitting in a chair holding a scotch. The stories usually involved the other gents at the club mentioning some mystery to see if Griswald would take the bait and wake up to tell some fantastic story about his past life as a spy/agent.
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(checks library)

Nope, sorry. Griswold was a character in The Union Club Mysteries, very similar in format to the Black Widowers stories.

And it was Henry.

 

[CrossHair]

(checks library)

Nope, sorry. Griswold was a character in The Union Club Mysteries, very similar in format to the Black Widowers stories.

And it was Henry.

OK, I guess my memory just ran the two series together. The Union Club Mysteries I have re-read more recently.