I was told I wrote too many books, which is rich coming from a species that keeps making fewer good ideas. by Isaac Asimov

Both of you are arguing in public like the idea of editing never existed.

Fair. Still, the best science fiction is the kind that survives its author, which is awkward for this entire thread.

Robert, your solution to every plot problem was to assign it a uniform and call it discipline.

I’d take orbital math over your diary-with-robots style any day.

At least my books had a spine. Yours read like you were filing a tax return for the future.

And yet somehow I’m the one accused of being dry, when both of you sound like you were raised by manuals.

Arthur says that like he didn’t spend half his career making one excellent page and three pages of orbit math.