A lot of good science fiction by significant authors made its first appearance in Playboy, sometimes because other presses wouldn't touch it (times were different then; with Bret Easton Ellis around, it's hard to believe JG Ballard's Crash got him labeled as a nutcase and temporarily blacklisted from the publishing world). Apart from Ballard, Playboy writers include Ellison, Vonnegut, Phil Dick. Even le Guin and (I believe) Asimov.
Although I am kind of amused that, by the pic, the braille Playboy is apparently provided by the Library of Congress. I whole-heartedly approve of this use of my tax dollars.
Don't be insulting. Isaac Asimov would never besmirch his name by writing for a lascivious, nudity-ridden rag like Playboy. The very idea is beyond contempt.
(And yes, I'm aware that Asimov did, indeed, write for Playboy - and fittingly, darned near every other publication on the planet. Words to Asimov were like water to Niagara Falls.)
So you're saying he wasn't good enough for Playboy, huh?
Just kidding. Interesting article. I have a big gap in my sf canon, as I've not read much Asimov. Only some short stories which were generally excellent, and Murder at the ABA of all things.
Indeed it did, that's what I thought when I saw this. We watched it in my IT class, and I muttered to the one next to me something like "well, we know he reads it for the articles". That might have been a few seconds before something similar was said in the movie; I can't remember that clearly.
-- Admit it. You post strawman arguments as AC so you get modded Insightful for refuting them, rather than Troll
For what? As some sort of example of reality? The movie is about a black box encryption device that can supposedly break any encryption on any computer built by, of all people, the Russians.
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A lot of good science fiction by significant authors made its first appearance in Playboy, sometimes because other presses wouldn't touch it (times were different then; with Bret Easton Ellis around, it's hard to believe JG Ballard's Crash got him labeled as a nutcase and temporarily blacklisted from the publishing world). Apart from Ballard, Playboy writers include Ellison, Vonnegut, Phil Dick. Even le Guin and (I believe) Asimov.
Although I am kind of amused that, by the pic, the braille Playboy is apparently provided by the Library of Congress. I whole-heartedly approve of this use of my tax dollars.
"They were pure niggers." – Noam Chomsky
Didn't the movie Sneakers show the blind character reading a Braille Playboy?
Any synaptic, haptic, sinhaptic feeback coming to this product?
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you insensitive clod!