Yep I fell in love with him reading his work in the hospital. The short stories got me started and all of his Robot "Three Laws Of Robotics" stories were absolutely brilliant and I started on the Foundation Trilogy either while I was still in the hospital or while I was home recovering.

I recently picked up one that I had missed so long ago... The Gods Themselves. Amazing, can't believe I had missed it.

I find Robert J. Sawyer to be very similar in style and themes and I am enjoying him thoroughly. If you like mysteries (like Asimov's mysteries) I can also recommend Sawyer's The Golden Fleece. Setup very very similar to Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey with a colony ship heading out to populate a planet and a murder by a computer. The mystery is the protagonist discovering that the computer committed murder and then exposing why. Engaging with a satisfying if spooky ending.