Let's be fair: science fiction has always been divided between idea stories and adventure stories, and the best were both. In Asimov's day, characterization and prose were optional extras. And before Asimov, in the pulp era that Asimov grew up reading(I believe his parents spoke Yiddish more than English), lots of magazine readers were immigrants for whom English was a second language, so a sparse prose style was important.
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