like you I haven't read in long time. Read those back in high school.

I have a vague memory of thinking the final psychic confrontation with "The Mule" in the Foundation series was epic, but I can't recall those details at all now.

Where people had become so isolated, everything was delivered to there homes so there was no need to leave, and over time people found it impossible to leave home. I don’t know if I have the right book, that was at least 40 yes ago. Back when you’d go in a book store and you’d be lucky to find a half shelf of sci-fi and Fantasy. Now there are entire sections with rows of those kinds of titles.

I remember I was out backpacking and reading Dune. Ran into a couple guys who told me about Lord of the Rings. First time I’d ever heard of it. They also turned me on to Robert E Howard and Conan. Though I ended up preferring Solomon Kane.

It involved a young boy who discovered that instead of using the teleporter, you could go Outside (yes, it was capitalized) and walk from house to house. His mother was horrified. Can't remember the title of the short story.

I particularly like the way Asimov worked him into the foundation series.

He was a complete elitist, borderline fascist, complete sexist.. His solution was ALWAYS the 'strong man'

(pls don't tell me he was outspoken about Hitler and Stalin...I know, he wanted a different type of strong man.)

Most clear in his Foundation series, that he really believed most individuals were irrelevant pawns. Can't respect that, at all.

"When I was a child, I read childish things." Time to toss Asimov into the dust-bin of history, he simply doesn't hold up.

is The End of Eternity. It really deserves to be made into a movie, or better yet a series.

I have never been able to get into his Foundation series.

And one story every single person should read every single Presidential election year is Franchise. It took a bit of searching, but here's a link to the story. Please read it. https://novels77.com/the-complete-stories/franchise-993201.html

He was the first author to not trust people to cause disaster, even on something like killing Hitler before he comes to power.

And then I found out why. He was one of the few Jewish people to not lose anyone to the Holocaust.

Is the name of the novel. Features Elijah Baley (human investigator from Earth), and R. Daneel Olivaw (humanoid robot, Baley’s former assistant).

Baley is sent to Solaria to solve a murder. His impressive qualities as an investigator overcomes his lowly status as an Earthman. Earth is grossly overpopulated, folks live underground in massive multilevel cities. Processed yeast is a staple of their diet, due to population. People have a taboo/aversion to being outdoors. The Caves of Steel describes Bailey’s Earth.

Solaria is a planet that is the complete opposite of Earth. Population limited to 20,000. Everyone has his/her separate estate. Physical contact with other humans is taboo/aversion. Socialization is via holographic “Zoom” meetings only.

The Naked Sun is book three of the four part Robot Series. I read them as a kid, and recently read again. Nothing wrong with a literary salty snack or chocolate once in a while.