Wells set the bar for everyone else, and laid the foundation to ensure that science fiction would be very alive and well into the 20th century and beyond.

威尔士给其他人设定了规则，他也为科幻小说充满活力地进入20世纪并且有所超越奠定了基础。

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The great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov, in a classic novel called the Foundation, posited an advanced mathematical-rhetorical technology that could convert any speech to symbols, which could in turn be simplified like any other complex equation.

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He was famous for his fiction from the Foundation series to I Robot, but his science books were his masterpieces of lucidity.

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