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	Isaac Asimov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Asimov was by general consensus a master of the science-fiction genre and, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke, was considered to be one of the "Big Three" science-fiction writers during his lifetime.
		Asimov was afraid of flying, only doing so twice in his entire life (once in the course of his work at the Naval Air Experimental Station in Philadelphia during the Second World War and once returning home from the army base in Oahu in 1946).
		Isaac Asimov was a humanist and a rationalist.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Isaac_Asimov (5860 words)

	Isaac Asimov FAQ
		Asimov died on April 6, 1992 of heart and kidney failure, which were complications of the HIV infection he contracted from a transfusion of tainted blood during his December 1983 triple-bypass operation.
		Asimov discovered that he was acrophobic at the New York World's Fair in 1940, when he took his date and first love Irene on a roller coaster, expecting that it would cause her to cling to him in fear and give him a chance to kiss her.
		Asimov also edited or co-edited a large number of anthologies, and since his name was usually featured prominently on the cover, readers sometimes mistakenly associate his name with a story that appeared in an anthology that was in fact written by another author.
	www.asimovonline.com /asimov_FAQ.html (12119 words)

	Roger Clarke's Asimov's Laws of Robotics
		Asimov was not the first to conceive of well-engineered, non-threatening robots, but he pursued the theme with such enormous imagination and persistence that most of the ideas that have emerged in this branch of science fiction are identifiable with his stories.
		Asimov investigated this in an early short story and later in a novel: A mind-reading robot interprets the first law as requiring him to give people not the correct answers to their questions but the answers that he knows they want to hear 14,16,17.
		Asimov suggested one class of deadlock that would not occur: If in a given situation a robot knew that it was powerless to prevent harm to a human, then the first law would be inoperative; the third law would become relevant, and it would not self- immolate in a vain attempt to save the human.
	www.anu.edu.au /people/Roger.Clarke/SOS/Asimov.html (13168 words)

	Isaac Asimov
		Asimov: I imagine that the large majority of the population, in the United States at least, either accepts every word of the Bible as it is written or gives it very little thought and would be shocked to hear anyone doubt that the Bible is correct in every way.
		Asimov: Well, all of the scientific evidence we have seems to indicate that the universe is billions of years old.
		Asimov: Well, individual human beings may. There's a certain comfort, I suppose, in thinking that you will be with all of your loved ones again after death, that death is not the end, that you'll live again in some kind of never-never land with great happiness.
	www.positiveatheism.org /hist/asimov.htm (5677 words)

	Isaac Asimov - How I, Robot gets the science-fiction grandmaster wrong. By Chris Suellentrop
		The thread that connected this prodigious output was Asimov's role as a teacher, "the greatest explainer of the age," as Carl Sagan called him.
		Asimov's faith in the rule of robots was genuine and based on his faith in the rule of reason.
		But Asimov probably would have known why Asahara failed to understand his books—just as he surely grasped why it proved impossible for him, despite his best efforts, to stomp out the literary archetype of the evil robot run amok.
	www.slate.com /id/2103979 (977 words)

	Asimov's Science Fiction
		Asimov's was also the 2001 recipient of the Locus Award for Best Magazine.
		Originally published in Asimov's and Analog magazines, these classic stories have garnered numerous literary awards and span every style and theme in speculative fiction.
		From centuries of repression to private moments of triumph, from a plague of silence to an era that curses menstruation, these stirring tales explore the complexities of imagination and the boundless scope of the human experience.
	www.asimovs.com (428 words)

	Isaac Asimov Home Page
		Asimov developed the Three Laws (with the help of his editor John W. Campbell) because he was tired of the science fiction stories of the 1920s and 1930s in which the robots, like Frankenstein's creation, turned on their creators and became dangerous monsters.
		Isaac Asimov was born in Petrovichi, Russia, in 1920.
		At their virtual history exhibit is a letter from Asimov to an editor at Horn Book, after he received an unexpectedly large payment, asking to make sure that he wasn't overpaid.
	www.asimovonline.com (3421 words)

	WVU Libraries: Isaac Asimov Online Exhibit
		Isaac Asimov was one of the greatest science fiction writers of the twentieth-century.
		Many critics, scientists, and educators believe Asimov's greatest talent was for popularizing or, as he called it, "translating" science for the lay reader.
		Asimov was a faculty member at Boston University for many years.
	www.libraries.wvu.edu /exhibits/asimov (441 words)

	Isaac Asimov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Isaac Asimov, however, would not feel he had been really launched until he had sold to Campbell, and it would be six months after his first sale before Campbell bought "Trends", which was published in the July 1939 'Astounding'.
		Even Isaac Asimov, not known for his modesty, regards this as an exaggeration and it is, of course, absurd to be absolute.
		Isaac Asimov was none too smitten with the idea, having hitherto written only robot short stories, but at length he capitulated, and the result was "The Caves of Steel" (1954).
	www.kruse.co.uk /asimov.htm (2455 words)

	Asimov's Laws
		Isaac Asimov, who, in my opinion, is the greatest writer of all time, published his three laws in a short story called "Runaround" which was published by Street and Smith Publications, Inc. in 1942.
		Asimov detected as early as 1950, a need to extend the first law, which protected individual humans, so that it would protect humanity as a whole.
		Notwithstanding my great admiration for Asimov, I do not agree with his laws (nor do many other roboticists or sci-fi writers - such as Robert J. Sawyer).
	www.androidworld.com /prod22.htm (1247 words)

	Asimov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Asimov was born near Smolensk in Russia in the town of Petrovichi in 1920, however, his family emigrated to the USA when he was just three years old, and he grew up in Brooklyn.
		Asimov uses his exceptional writing talents in order to provide simple explanations of complex subjects, each presented in such a way as to make knowledge fun.
		Asimov has always been prepared to write about the world, space and the human condition as he sees it, and in this collection he expresses strong and possibly controversial views.
	members.aol.com /ibstore/asimov.htm (1710 words)

	Asimov's I, Robot
		Isaac Asimov was called a "genius" …"the nearest thing to a human writing machine"..."a natural wonder." His writing career spanned more than forty-five years and produced 477 published books of nearly every type of fiction and nonfiction.
		Isaac Asimov was born in Petrovichi, Russia in 1920, and emigrated to Brooklyn, New York with his parents in 1923.
		In Russia, where Asimov and I were born, he is one of the most renown authors.
	www.iit.edu /~cs485/reports/asimovsi.htm (1558 words)

	WVU Libraries: Isaac Asimov Collection
		Asimov's Sherlockian limericks / by Isaac Asimov ; introduction by the author ; frontispiece by Gahan Wilson
		Asimov's biographical encyclopedia of science and technology; the lives and achievements of 1195 great scientists from ancient times to the present, chronologically arranged
		Asimov's biographical encyclopedia of science and technology : the living stories of more than 1000 great scientists from the age of Greece to the space age, chronologically arranged
	www.libraries.wvu.edu /exhibits/asimov/rare (538 words)

	The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov, a Robot series novel
		Asimov began his writing career with "Marooned Off Vesta" in the March 1939 issue of Amazing Stories, and wrote for publication almost without pause for the next fifty plus years.
		In the 1950's, Asimov turned to writing novels, beginning with Pebble in the Sky (1950), The Stars, Like Dust (1951, vt The Rebellious Stars), and The Currents of Space (1952), all of which were set earlier in the future history of the galactic empire featured in the Foundation series.
		Asimov's important collections of short SF during this last phase of his career include The Winds of Change and Other Stories (1983), The Edge of Tomorrow (1985), The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov (1986), The Asimov Chronicles (1989), and Gold (1995).
	members.aol.com /firoane/asimov.htm (1635 words)

	Jenkins' Spoiler-Laden Guide to Isaac Asimov
		I don’t particularly care for them, and I don’t think they reveal anything particularly interesting about Asimov or his fictional universe—mainly because the bulk of the writing was done by his collaborator, Janet Asimov, and he did very little actual work on them.
		Anthologies of Asimov’s stories are often influenced by whether or not the worthwhile material in them is readily available elsewhere.
		Asimov’s doctoral dissertation is included in my list (officially) because Asimov would have counted it himself if he’d written it in the 1960’s or 1970’s; it’s certainly more book-like than some of the things he did count.
	homepage.mac.com /jhjenkins/Asimov/Asimov.html (2344 words)

	Isaac Asimov. Biography and complete works
		Asimov began contributing stories to science-fiction magazines in 1939 and in 1950 published his first book, Pebble in the Sky and his first science book, a biochemistry text written with two colleagues, in 1953.
		Among his best-known science fiction works are the sequel of The Foundation Trilogy, Foundation's Edge (1982), wrote 30 years later; The Naked Sun (1957); The Gods Themselves (1972).
		Among his major science books are the Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (1964; rev. 1982) and Asimov's New Guide to Science (1984), a recent revision of his widely acclaimed Intelligent Man's Guide to Science (1960).
	www.booksfactory.com /writers/asimov.htm (377 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Foundation (Foundation Novels (Paperback)) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		By then Asimov had long ago tired of the series; you can tell by the first part of the third book.
		This is where it begins in realtime, although the later novel _Prelude to Foundation_ is "first" according to the chronology of the Foundation universe.
		In book two, Asimov introduces the mystery of the mule, and in book three Asimov pulls a rabbit out the hat called the Second Foundation.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553293354?v=glance (2076 words)

	3 Laws Unsafe - Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics & I, Robot
		Isaac Asimov and other science fiction authors present a future where only behavioral restrictions on robots stand between peace and destruction.
		At the heart of the movie are Isaac Asimov’s “Three Laws of Robotics”;, invented as a simple, but immutable moral code for robots.
		Bundy notes that simple safety measures are already a crucial part of the design of industrial robots, which have in rare cases caused the death of people.
	www.asimovlaws.com (1143 words)

	Isaac Asimov, Science Fiction, Mystery, and Fantasy Writer
		Asimov, Isaac, In Memory Yet Green, Doubleday, New York, 1979.
		Asimov, Isaac, The Wendell Urth Series, in The Great Science Fiction Series, edited by Frederik Pohl, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Joseph Olander, Harper & Row, New York, 1980, 420 pp.
		Asimov: A Memoir, Doubleday, New York, 1994, 562 pp.
	www.hycyber.com /SF/asimov_isaac.html (601 words)

	Asimov - a question-answering program. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Asimov is a unique program that can answer English questions.
		Asimov, the old version, was awarded 5 cows by Tucows
		To use the new version of Asimov, go to our new website.
	www.sondergaard.clara.co.uk (104 words)

	Isaac Asimov Bibliography
		Isaac Asimov was the most famous, most honored, most widely read, and most beloved science fiction author of all time.
		Isaac Asimov was born in Russia in 1920 and grew up in the USA.
		With nearly five hundred books to his name and several hundred articles, Asimov’s output was prolific by any standards.
	www.fantasticfiction.co.uk /authors/Isaac_Asimov.htm (867 words)

	BeyondAsimov.2ya.com - Fan fiction and more based upon Isaac Asimov's sci-fi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		“The Reagan Doctrine” and “Asimov on Science and the Bible” — Essay and interview with Isaac on religion and atheism.
		Isaac Asimov Interview — Conducted by a fan in Poland, 1988.
		Sons of Asimov — June 20, 1999 interview with the Second Foundation Trilogy’s Killer B’s: Benford, Bear and Brin.
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	Isaac Asimov - Summary Bibliography (Long Works) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Asimov, Isaac (Petrovichi, Russia, 2 January 1920 - 6 April 1992)
		Norby and the Invaders (1985) with Janet Asimov
		Norby and the Court Jester (1991) with Janet Asimov
	www.isfdb.org /cgi-bin/ea.cgi?Isaac_Asimov (1810 words)

	Isaac Asimov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Asimov's parents emigrated from Russia to the US with him in 1923.
		Discuss this person with other users on IMDb message board for Isaac Asimov
		Find where Isaac Asimov is credited alongside another name
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0001920 (274 words)

	Isaac Asimov - Wikiquote
		Yours, Isaac Asimov (20 September 1973) page 329.
		The Asimov Vault (Photos, sound recordings, biography and links)
		Internet Science Fiction Database page for Isaac Asimov
	en.wikiquote.org /wiki/Isaac_Asimov (1905 words)

	Asimov - Profession by Isaac Asimov (1957)
		is Isaac Asimov's Profession is an allegorical description of the manner in which education currently functions in our primitive western societies – abelard [1]
		, copyright ©1957 by Street and Smith Publications, Inc., from ISAAC ASIMOV: THE COMPLETE STORIES OF VOL.
		Used by permission of Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc.
	www.abelard.org /asimov.htm (14388 words)

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