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Isaac Asimov is widely considered a master of the science-fiction genre and, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke, he was considered one of the "Big Three" science-fiction writers during his lifetime. Asimov's most famous work is the Foundation Series; his other major series are the Galactic Empire series and the Robot series, both of which he later tied into the same fictional universe as the Foundation Series to create a unified "future history" for his stories much like those pioneered by Robert A. Heinlein and previously produced by Cordwainer Smith and Poul Anderson. He penned numerous short stories, among them "Nightfall", which in 1964 was voted by the Science Fiction Writers of America the best short science fiction story of all time, an accolade that many still find persuasive. Asimov wrote the Lucky Starr series of juvenile science-fiction novels using the pen name Paul French.

I'd have to said I'm not unhappy about this. Just to fully observe my 'writing style' in this high tech internet generator I chucked in my last blog post, the result:

 

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

Cory Doctorow is a Canadian blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing. He is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organisation, using some of their licences for his books. Some common themes of his work include digital rights management, file sharing, and post-scarcity economics

Again not unhappy, regardless if I'm bitching or trying to convice an academic that I'm not dumb I still manage to get to connect with sci-fi.

Do you know what I find interesting about History?

There are always two sides to every story, at least. As they say History is written by the victors.

For a rehash on my history particularly relating to relationships I was dumped a two years ago by my boyfriend of almost 4 years, only a few weeks after discussing engagements rings for another woman. This woman was known to me, she was kind of in the friend circle. He said that he still loved me but he couldn’t be with me that he needed to find himself etc. every excuse in the book.

Suffice to say I went on to detest them both with a fiery passion reserved for a special circle of hell. When I found out the woman, also shortened to ‘that wench’ had joined the gym where I work I was disgusted, even more so when she tried to communicate with me over the net.

It had seemed that she was an easy replacement for me. She took over my (and two of my friends, note they were ‘our’ friend before the ‘divorce’) spot in the podcast. The podcast was renamed and changed to cover his shame.

She came in today to renew her membership. I was freaking out a little bit. This woman took from me a man who I thought I could be quite happy with for the foreseeable future. The man who broke up with me a week after my 21^st birthday and a week before by 21^st birthday party. I has explained to my manager of Friday the issue and my manager being the totally awesome woman that she is said she’d come in and handle it.

So she shows up and I am professional, polite but do my best not to engage her or make eye contact. This all goes well right up until the end when she enquires about my Honours which I completed last year. I said it went well and inquired to her and her friend how they were going and how the ‘boys’ were.

This is where stuff gets enlightening. 

They told me that they’d both been dumped. Her friend (who I do know through her now ex) termed her dumping as a ‘I love you but I’m not in love with you’ one. The woman told me that he has done to her almost what he’d done to me, minus the added excuse of the other woman. He’d said that he was ‘feeling restless’ and ‘needed to blah, blah, blah…’ I was a little shocked to tell you the truth. She elucidated by comment on how much of a douche bad he’d become how crazy his family was, particularly his mother who, much like she had to me, was borderline hostile toward me that I was ‘taking him away’.

It had come out. I wasn’t the defective one he has to rid himself of, she was a convenient person to move onto when he’d gotten tired of me and then when he’d gotten tired of her, history repeated itself. He’s the defective one not me. And you have no idea how great it was to understand that.

I told her that I still didn’t like her, that there is a part of me that still hates her, she replied that she understood that and I was well within my rights to. She also said she should have seen it coming after what he did to me.

But on top of that, and after phoning two friend about it something else became apparent. He’s also using the same misdirection target. A male friend of mine gave me a letter from him about a week after we broke up (actually he gave it to me at my 21^st party but I refused to read it then) the letter which outlined all the things I’d ever done wrong in the relationship and at the heart of it the breakup was my fault. My male fried didn’t know what was in the letter he was just blindly doing a ‘favour for a friend’. The result was not good, he didn’t know what was in the letter and my bastard of an ex had been able to misdirect some of my anger onto my innocent friend.

Well he did it again. He construed to the ‘woman’ that he’d decided to break up with her after a conversation with the very same male friend.

I think he’s running out of people he can use and throw away. Particularly once we all start communicating with each other. In a way he’s getting away with it because he has his adoring fans who don’t know how much of a somewhat sociopathic douche-bag he in.

And that’s my history new and old. I now feel a bit better about the whole thing.