Oh I *adore* Asimov's worldbuilding and love the anachronisms in his futurisms. Such as the robots operating a physical control panel to operate the video-phone equivalent; or actually speaking to each other rather than using local-area wireless :D

I didn't read "robots" yet! Stop the spoilers right away! :p

You should get on with that. Some of the Elijah Bailey books are wonderful. I imagine Rammstein in my head while reading them since about 2000 when I spent a lovely summer with those books and rammstein on my mp3 player :D

I'm slowly catching up. I read hyperion recently and the "commonwealth" saga from Peter F. Hamilton (well, a few other books from this same author because it was awesome). But I'm going through the big SF hits!

The Hyperion/Endymion quadrilogy is gloriously good. Did you enjoy it?

Honestly, meh. Definitely not one of my fav series... For me it felt like the serie didn't know if they wanted to go full SF or that they were trying to pull in some mystical stuff and we end up with a lot unexplained, which I didn't appreciate.

Aah I quite like mysticism approaches sometimes :D The reverse-time-travel things were really interesting to me as a way to look across mysticism as well.

Well, the problem is that finally we kinda understand that a war in the future was "brought back". However, that doesn't explain the "bears and the tigers" which seem to control the universe but not be part of the war. A lot of unexplained.

I kinda thought of those as thought-entities running on a compute substrate which was out of "phase" with normal space. But it has been many years since I last read those books :D

The commonwealth sage was much better on the "thought-entities" part. I really liked their approach on the topic.