I'm in the mood for a nerd melee, so I would like to pose this question: Which Science Fiction Grand Master best represents the grandeur, the inspiration, the creativity, the excitement, and the possibility of a bold, high-tech humanist future: Arthur C. Clarke, he of 2001: A Space Odyssey fame and others, or Isaac Asimov, who showed us the epic decline, falla, and resurrection of a galactic empir over thousands of tyears. Sadly to say Heinlein will not be joining do to a mild case of sucking Frank Herbert will be waiting in the waitings becaues he's just too cool to compete. So which is it: Clark or Asimovc -whose vision do you want to get birth to the future?