Genesis and Rebirth

Let's go back in time, to some 25 years ago. After having read Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" novels in the 1980s and 1990s, and learning of his death in 1992 when I was attending the last year at the university, I had finally managed to get copies of the translated editions of the "Killer B's" so -called "Second Foundation Trilogy"... and I must say, I wasn't really impressed. I found them diverging too much both from Asimov's style and themes, at least for my personal taste. I started thinking what sort of stories I would have liked to read, what loose threads Asimov had left at the time of his death... and that was the inspiration for what would become "Project Asenion", as I chose to call it. Since I can generate a lot of ideas in my mind, but I'm not really good at writing (my personal opinion is that my writing style sucks), I told my ideas to a friend who is also an Asimov fan (among toher things), to get some feedback from him, and, if possible, get him to take down notes on whatever ideas I came up with (since I hate handwriting, getting cramps on my fingers after a while holding a pen, and when it comes to typewriting, well, my fingers tend to get out of sync with each other, producing several typos). We discussed my ideas when we ame together, exchanged some e-mails, and commented the project on Usenet newsgroups. But then, after a while, in 2001 he left for Canada for some post-graduate studies, and has been living there ever since (though he ocassionally returns for a few weeks at a time to spend time with his family and friends). And so, Project Asenion entered a state of deep hybernation...

Fast forward to the year 2025. A few weeks ago, chatting with an AI which had been upgraded from a previous version, I asked it if it could sustain a conversation with the previous incarnation, in a way similar to that in which George 10 did with George 9 in Asimov's short story "That Thou Art Mindful of Him". The reply was negative, but the suggestion remind me of my sleeping project. I decided to revive it, thought of some further ideas for it, and kept chatting with the aforementioned AI about my ideas, much as I had done with my friend all those years ago. I decided I should start another blog which I could use for all that, since y previous blog was focused on a very different subject, but earlier this week I was rather busy (updating my earlier blog, no less), until I finally finished what I was doing by Saturday night and decided that on Sunday (that is, today) I would create the new blog already. The last thing I did before going to sleep was look on my old backup discs for those e-mails and Usenet posts from all those years ago, take a quick look at them when I found them (and I realized I had forgotten a couple of things I had thought of back then, but I'd probably figured them out again in due time), and leave a more careful reading for today after lunch.

So, this afternoon I did some more re-reading of my old ideas (and found one or two more things I had also forgotten), and finally came here to create the blog. Did I mention  that I live in Peru? Yes, I'm Peruvian, so English isn't my first language (that's Spanish), and not even my second one (that honor goes to German), but the third (which was easier to lear compared to all the syntax and grammar rules of the other two), so, please, I ask you to forgive me of any errors I may have in my writing (aside from the typois I mentioned in the first paragraph). I will try to do my best effort, and i hope you can both enjoy and appreciate the results. At the same time, I may also post some other non-Asimov related ideas on this blog, mainly related to science fiction in one way or another (so, don't despair). It's good that I created this log on tis date, since it's exactly one year after my Beagle dog died at 14 years of age, and 8 years after my favorite cousine died as a consequency of a surgery which wasn't adequately performed in a clinic which has been recently involved in some other scandal in the news...

See you next time!