Asimov

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13. He was a essentially a one-man 'Book of the Month' club.

For a while I was the newsletter editor for the NYC chapter of American Atheists, and he was on our mailing list. We were also both on the fundraising committee for the (closed for many years) Museum of Holography on Mercer Street in SoHo. (Never had meetings for this, so there was no personal interaction.)

I did get to meet him at a signing during one of the "Fifth Avenue is Book Country" book fairs in the late 80's. He was set up at a table in front of the Doubleday offices. As he signed my book I mentioned that, at that time, I had just north of 200 of his books. He stopped in mid-signature and looked up at me, probably thinking I was some sort of stalker or something. In reality I had obtained my first Asimov boom when I was in 6th grade - "Asimov's Guide to the Slide Rule" - and had been hooked on his writing style ever since. I also later found that one of my favorite short stories that I had read when I was in 3rd or 4th grade was one of his. Prolific writer on many subjects, and I still cherish the few signed first-editions I still have.