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	Bambooweb: Isaac Asimov
		Asimov was born around January 2, 1920 (his date of birth for official purposes -- the precise date is not certain) in Petrovichi, near Smolensk, Russia, to Anna Rachel and Judah Asimov, a Jewish family.
		Isaac Asimov was a humanist and a rationalist.
		Asimov began contributing stories to science fiction magazines in 1939; his short story "Nightfall" (1941) is described in Bewildering Stories, issue 8, as one of "the most famous science-fiction stories of all time".
	www.bambooweb.com /articles/i/s/Isaac_Asimov.html (2565 words)

	Galactic Empire (Asimov)
		In Isaac Asimov's Robot/Empire/Foundation series of novels, the Galactic Empire is an empire consisting of planets settled by humans across the whole galaxy.
		The Galactic Empire consists of the worlds inhabited by Settlers from Earth (as opposed to Spacerss), although by the time when the novels are set, no one remembers that humans originated from that small planet.
		The Empire's capital is Trantor, a planet covered entirely by a giant city, located near the center of the Galaxy.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/galactic_empire__asimov_ (482 words)

	Learn more about Psychohistory in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Psychohistory was also the name of a fictional science in Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy universe, which combined history, psychology and mathematical statistics to create a (nearly) exact science of the behavior of very large populations of people, such as the Galactic Empire.
		Asimov used the analogy of a gas - In a gas, the motion of a single molecule is very difficult to predict, but the mass action of the gas can be predicted to a high level of accuracy.
		Asimov applied this concept to the population of the fictional Galactic Empire, which numbered in the quadrillions.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /p/ps/psychohistory.html (762 words)

	Isaac Asimov - SciFi/Fantasy Wiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Asimov was born around January 2, 1920 (his date of birth for official purposes — the precise date is not certain) in Petrovichi, near Smolensk, Russia, to a Jewish family that emigrated to the United States when he was three years old.
		Asimov began contributing stories to science fiction magazines in 1939; his short story Nightfall (1941) is described in Bewildering Stories, issue 8, as one of "the most famous science-fiction stories of all time" [1] (http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue8/asimov.html).
		Asimov said that of all his writings, he was most proud of the middle section of The Gods Themselves.
	www.infoshop.org /sf/index.php?title=Isaac_Asimov&printable=yes (2132 words)

	Isaac Asimov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Asimov was born around January 2, 1920 (his date of birth for official purposes—the precise date is not certain) in Petrovichi, near Smolensk, Russia, to Anna Rachel and Judah Asimov, a Jewish family.
		According to Asimov, the most essential element of humor is an abrupt change in point of view, one that suddenly shifts focus from the important to the trivial, or from the sublime to the ridiculous.
		Asimov once explained that his reluctance to write about aliens came from an incident early in his career when ''Astounding'''s editor John Campbell rejected one of his early science fiction stories because the alien characters were portrayed as superior to the humans.
	www.infothis.com /find/Isaac_Asimov (4327 words)

	Asimov, The Good Doctor
		Asimov became an instructor of biochemistry at the Boston University School of Medicine in May 1949, an assistant professor in December 1951, an associate professor with tenure in July 1955, and finally a full-time writer in April 1958.
		On 30 November 1973, Asimov and Janet Jeppson espoused each other, a marriage that lasted until Asimov's death, due to the accidental contraction of AIDS during a 1983 surgery, in New York City on 6 April 1992 (Allen 28; "Past").
		Asimov's first novel, Pebble in the Sky, which takes place prior to the events in the Foundation series, appeared in 1950, followed by other novels in the same universe, The Stars, Like Dust (1951) and The Currents of Space (1952).
	www.bewilderingstories.com /issue8/asimov.html (1625 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)

	ASIMOVIANS.COM - In Memory of Isaac Asimov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		While it was during the war, Asimov was stateside during the whole conflict and new of the brutality and scope of conflict only through newspapers and newsreels.
		Asimov was not thrilled with the idea because it meant derailing his story idea, and sending it in a direction he was not yet sure of.
		In fact, Asimov later related that Bayta’s quieter husband in “The Mule,” was modeled after himself and what he saw as his role in their marriage.
	www.asimovians.com /bookreviews.php?op=showcontent&id=58 (1332 words)

	Articles - Galactic empire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Galactic empires are a fairly common theme in science fiction.
		The capitol of a galactic empire is frequently a core world.
		Some of these empires are clearly based on the Roman Empire; the Galactic Empire of Isaac Asimov's Foundation series (which inspired empires of later writers and film-makers) being an obvious example.
	www.lastring.com /articles/Galactic_Empire?mySession=7dc1e5d7670717c314a85e21f663ad7e (182 words)

	SF REVIEWS.NET: Psychohistorical Crisis / Donald Kingsbury
		Asimov's epic was predicated on a concept he called psychohistory, founded by the iconic Hari Seldon.
		Psychohistory is a mathematical principle that, in the context of Asimov's Galactic Empire milieu, enables its practitioners to predict trends in human culture and civilization and thus plan the most beneficial futures for humanity accordingly.
		To be famless is tantamount to a death sentence; it makes day-to-day living in the Second Empire difficult, and mastery of the advanced mathematics of psychohistory impossible.
	www.sfreviews.net /psychohist.html (878 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)

	Amazon.com: Books: Foundation and Empire (Foundation Novels (Paperback)) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Asimov is playing with the idea of predicting human behavior scientifically (or controlling it scientifically,) but this character is also a humanistic meditation on how masses of people get overwhelmed by evil social forces like fascism and soviet communism.
		Asimov himself wrote in 1982 that the knowledge of astronomy at that time was "primitive" and that he could now take advantage of electronic computers in his stories, which hadn't been invented until he was halfway through the series in the 40s.
		In this sequel to "Foundation," Asimov continues to channel Edward Gibbon, charting the rise and fall of the Galactic Empire and the subsequent rebirth, like a phoenix from the ashes, of a new and improved federation.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553293370?v=glance (2737 words)

	Empire Series - SciFi/Fantasy Wiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Their only common point is Asimov's idea of a future Galactic Empire, and this is barely mentioned in Pebble in the Sky.
		Asimov later integrated them into his all-engulfing Foundation series.
		In reality, this was due to the magazine editor Asimov worked with at the time (John W. Campbell) disliking robots in science fiction, and discouraging (forbidding?) Asimov from including them.
	www.infoshop.org /sf/index.php/Empire_Series (152 words)

	Isaac Asimov
		Asimov's scientific background allows him to infuse his writing with fictional but plausible science and technology.
		Asimov hooks you with a flawless story-line and personable characters, and reels you in with superb twists and turns and a way of resolving things that is limited to only his intellect.
		Let Asimov put you on-board a gravitic starship, supposedly searching for the lost homeworld of humanity's origin, while actually hurtling towards a confrontation at "intersection point" that will decide the fate of the galaxy.
	www.geocities.com /happybluedog/asimov.html (837 words)

	Review: The Foundation Trilogy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		It is a statistical science, inspired by thermodynamics, which cannot anticipate the behavior of individual particles, but once you have myriads of them, statistical laws produce a perfectly predictable behavior subject to handling by the tools of mathematics.
		Its subject are not individuals but enormous populations, and from the psychology, sociology, and economics of the masses it can distill a history of the future and assign probabilities to individual predictions.
		Asimov displays occasional sparkles of wry wit, but the overall impression is one of oppressive dullness.
	sites.inka.de /mips/reviews/Foundation.html (395 words)

	Bicentennial Man (1999)
		Isaac Asimov may not have been the world’s greatest science-fiction writer, even if he is often seen as such by people outside the sf field.
		Asimov’s characterization, when not underwrit by a schoolboyish sexism, was non-existent to wooden and his plotting stilted.
		Rather than his science fiction, Asimov’s best work is probably still the enormous body of non-fiction books he wrote wherein he brought his prodigious and much vaunted intellect to bear on popularizing various aspects of science and history.
	www.moria.co.nz /sf/bicentennial.htm (806 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: PEBBLE IN THE SKY (The Empire Novels) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Asimov also uses a plot element to be found in both the Robot Novels and the Foundation Novels: Psionics, obviously a favorite concept of his.
		Nor does Asimov convincingly describe how the biological WMD at the heart of the plot could actually spread across the Galaxy so quickly without the many technologically-advanced worlds of the Empire discovering a way to stop it.
		Asimov is known for his highly complex plots, which often mix mystery elements with plausible science.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553293427?v=glance (1772 words)

	The Foundation Series (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Asimov's novels covered only 500 of the expected 1,000 years it would take for the Foundation to become a galactic empire.
		Asimov himself wrote that he assumed the one-time award had been created in order to honor ''The Lord of the Rings'' and he was amazed when his work won.
		George Lucas used elements of the Foundation series to construct the universe in which ''Star Wars'' is set, including propulsion by hyperdrive and the Galactic Empire (although Lucas' Empire was by definition evil, while Seldon openly says that in principle the First Empire is not evil).
	www.infothis.com /find/The_Foundation_Series (2409 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Psychohistorical Crisis at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The new empire is openly ruled by the 'Pscholars', a secret and elite brotherhood who 'manage' the future of society via psychohistorical prediction and adjustment.
		Much of the detail of Asimov's original stories is referred to during the book's long historical musings, although many names are changed (Faraway instead of Terminus, Splendid Wisdom instead of Trantor, etc.) However, most of the story after the end of "Second Foundation" is left out.
		Unlike Asimov's galactic empire, Kingsbury's future society is still deeply rooted in the history and literature of 'Old Rith' (Earth), whose fam-less 'sapiens' inhabitants are seen as little better than animals but still manage to be the galaxy's most notorious hucksters, forgers, and conmen.
	www.epinions.com /content_66084310660 (638 words)

	4Literature \|\| Isaac Asimov's Robot-Empire-Foundation Series (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Isaac Asimov's Robot-Empire-Foundation series (so called because it's the union of what was originally three separate storylines into a single fictional universe) is the story of the rise of man from the present day onward.
		The rigid and bureaucratic empire undergoes a decline reminiscent of the decline and fall of the Roman empire.
		Empire initially supports changing of Earth's radioactive soil for healthy, then the effort is mysteriously abandoned.
	www.4literature.net /story/2003/1/21/94638/5941 (5165 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Encyclopedia Galactica
		Perhaps Isaac Asimov's most famous creation is his Foundation series of novels, which, towards the end of Asimov's life, came to include his robot novels and short stories as well as his three Galactic Empire novels.
		Asimov created the Foundation in theory to produce the Encyclopedia Galactica, meant to categorize and maintain as much knowledge of human existence as possible.
		Having just passed the sixth anniversary of Isaac Asimov's death, one would have to think that Asimov would be honored by the time and resources Mike Carlin has expended.
	www.sfsite.com /05a/gala32.htm (740 words)

	Psychohistory Was Hari Seldon pulling our leg?
		It's too late to prevent the catastrophe, nor is it desirable; the empire is arteriosclerotic and authoritarian, and must be remade, not rescued.
		The empire is said to have a quintillion souls on 25 million inhabited words.
		The Foundation, intent on galactic empire, uses any means necessary to crack even markets that don't want to be cracked.
	www.zompist.com /psihist.html (3425 words)

	Asimov's 'Foundation' theories on society move from fiction to academia
		Asimov's "Foundation" novels — the most famous science-fiction trilogy between "Lord of the Rings" and "Star Wars" — described a new science of social behavior called psychohistory.
		Among the newest of the enterprises — and closest to the spirit of Asimov's psychohistory — is a discipline called sociophysics.
		Like Asimov's psychohistory, sociophysics is rooted in statistical mechanics, the math used by physicists to describe the big picture when lacking data about the details.
	www.jewishworldreview.com /0704/asimov.php3 (2577 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Foundation and Chaos: The Second Foundation Trilogy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Asimov would have been proud to see his Foundation series added to with this wild tale.
		The Foundation series of the late Isaac Asimov and its continuation by Brin and Bear is a work of Creative Geniuses, the modern analogue of the classic Shakespeare.
		This is forgivable because Bear never tried to emulate Asimov's style, he only tried to take Asimov's unfinished story and do the best job he could with his own writing style, which is really a better way to go if you think about it.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0061056405 (822 words)

	physics - Science fiction
		One could make an argument, for example, classifying Isaac Asimov's Foundation series as part of the "soft" subgenre, since the series focuses on the vast sociological movements of the dying Galactic Empire.
		On the other hand, one of the most frequent comments made about Asimov's work is that his stories lack description, and that there are few sharply memorable characters scattered throughout the whole Foundation epic; this would seem to go against the grain of the argument that Soft SF necessarily has deeper characterization.
		Furthermore, Asimov treats his "soft sciences" in a remarkably "hard" way: his fictional science of psychohistory is a mathematical way of encapsulating the "human texture" of his sociological story.
	www.physicsdaily.com /physics/Science_fiction (3191 words)

	ASIMOVIANS.COM - In Memory of Isaac Asimov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Galactic Empire Series, The Robot Series and The Foundation Series.
		Galactic Empire Homepage is unofficial Asimov Foundation Universe database.
		A page tribute To asimov with a very beautiful track Call Naked Sun in free mp3 streaming compose in his memory.
	www.asimovians.com /links/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=3 (428 words)

	Psychohistory: Hari Seldon’s dead hand? Or is Adam Smith's dead Hand?
		It did not resurface until the Galactic Empire was in decline when, at the Decennial Convention on Trantor, Hari Seldon presented a paper of the theoretical potential of psychohistory as a mathematics of social change, dealing with the reactions of very large human populations to social and economic stimuli.
		Psychohistory had two fundamental axioms; that the number of people to whom it was being applied should be large enough for a statistical treatment of them to be valid, and that humanity should not know the results of the application of psychohistory before the results were achieved.
		Psychohistory, the science of historical motivation, combines the insights of psychotherapy with the research methodology of the social sciences to understand the emotional origin of the social and political behavior of groups and nations, past and present.
	www.prime-radiant.com /Psychohistory.html (2130 words)

	Reader's Club: Email Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Like the decline of the Roman Empire, Asimov's Galactic Empire falls into ruin.
		The story ends with mankind establishing a second and greater Galactic Empire.
		When you consider Asimov writing much of the trilogy just after the horrors of World War II, it's no wonder his view of man's future is so intriguing.
	www.readersclub.org /emailReview.asp?id=1970 (134 words)

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