We're not an etymology podcast even though we sometimes make up our own words.  Nevertheless, if you follow our blog you've recently read about the origins of the words "robot" and "robotics."  Asimov has been known to make up his own words too.  In fact, he's credited in the Oxford English Dictionary as the originator of the word "robotics."  In this episode, we learn the origin of the word "Asenion" through a miraculous combination of brilliance, scholarship, and real-time detective work which the uninitiated might dismiss as mere Google-fu.  Did the Great and Glorious Az invent the word "Asenion?"  You'll have to listen to find out!

Meanwhile, we ruminate over the second section of the Caves of Steel in which Baley throws around some wild theories, learns the sinister,  not-so-sinister, or not-sinister-at-all designs of Spacetown, and sees an object eerily similar to a slide rule.  If you think that sounds like fun, you're in for a wild ride!  Join us!