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	Isaac Asimov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Asimov is widely considered 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 born around January 2, 1920 (his date of birth for official purposes—the precise date is not certain) in Petrovichi shtetl of Smolensk Oblast, RSFSR (now Russia) to Anna Rachel Berman Asimov and Judah Asimov, a Jewish family of millers.
		Isaac Asimov was a Humanist and a rationalist.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Isaac_Asimov (6962 words)

	Isaac Asimov Obituary
		Isaac Asimov, the pre-eminent popular-science writer of the day and for more than 40 years one of the best and best-known writers of science fiction, died yesterday at New York University Hospital.
		Isaac Asimov was born Jan. 2, 1920, in the Soviet Union, near Smolensk, the son of Judah and Anna Rachel Berman Asimov.
		Isaac Asimov, a self-confessed compulsive writer, produced nearly 500 books on a remarkable array of subjects, reaching out not only to distant galaxies but also to the distant past for inspiration.
	www.rudysbooks.com /asimovobit.html (1569 words)

	Isaac Asimov
		Isaac Asimov was born in Petrovichi, Russia, as the son of Judah Asimov and Anna Rachel Berman Asimov.
		Asimov was extraordinarily prolific writer of a prodigious number of works including science fiction, science fact, mystery, history, short stories, guides to the Bible and Shakespeare, and discussions of myth, humor, poems, limericks, as well as annotations of literary works.
		Asimov's strength as a fiction writer was in his great skill to develop logically interesting ideas within a conventional story frame, which did not have much sensual or visual references.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /asimov.htm (2422 words)

	Isaac Asimov FAQ, Part 3/4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Asimov's original intention was to write a series of longer stories to complement the series of short stories he was writing about robots.
		Asimov's view was exactly the opposite -- his robots are "positronic" because positrons had just been discovered when he started writing robot stories and the word had a nice science-fictiony ring to it.
		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.faqs.org /faqs/books/isaac-asimov-faq/part3 (3605 words)

	Isaac Asimov
		Science fiction author Isaac Asimov is one of the best-known and most successful authors to emerge from the Golden Age of science fiction.
		It was Asimov's "Three Laws of Robotics" and his concept of the positronic brain that inspired Gene Roddenberry to create Data, the Star Trek: The Next Generation android.
		Isaac Asimov was born in Petrovichi, Russia (near Smolensk) in 1920, around 2 January.
	www.nndb.com /people/702/000023633 (1332 words)

	Isaac Asimov Quotes
		Especially in writing science fiction and science, Asimov is one of the key figures of the 20th century.
		By 1949, Asimov with Arthur C. Clarke and Robert Heinlein were referred to as "The Big Three" in science fiction.
		Asimov emphasized non-fiction in the 1960s and 1970s, particularly becoming a major science writer.
	www.testermanscifi.org /AsimovQuotesPart1.html (883 words)

	Isaac Asimov
		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'.
		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).
		Isaac Asimov did not return to full length SF until 1972 with probably his most ambitious novel "The Gods themselves" (1972), which went on to win both the Hugo and Nebula awards as best novel.
	www.kruse.demon.co.uk /asimov.htm (2455 words)

	Isaac Asimov
		Asimov devoted his life to popularizing the science fiction genre, and his first Foundation trilogy rank among the best reads of my early life.
		Perhaps as a result, studying history for "presentist" purposes, or using the past solely to understand the present, rather than for its own sake, has never seemed to me to be the grievous historical sin it is in some circles.
		Asimov is admirable not only for his ideas but for his idealism.
	www.kevincmurphy.com /asimov.html (184 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.
		Isaac Asimov does not use a lot unknown technological terms, his language is clear and simple.
	www.iit.edu /~cs485/reports/asimovsi.htm (1558 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)

	Life Stories
		Isaac Asimov was born in Petrovichi, Russia on 2 January 1920.
		Asimov was also involved in other science fiction film classics, such as 1979's Star Trek: The Motion Picture where he acted as science advisor on the request of creator and producer of the original Star Trek series Gene Roddenberry.
		Isaac Asimov remains well known for his science fiction writing, in particular his Positronic Robot and Foundation series, but his influence wasn't limited to sci-fi alone.
	www.channel4.com /science/microsites/S/science/life/biog_asimov.html (1127 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.
		The result is a portrait of the life of Isaac Asimov, the writer, humanist, thinker, wit, and bon vivant, which lovingly illustrates why he was able to truthfully say "It's been a good life".
		Isaac Asimov was born in Petrovichi, Russia, in 1920.
	www.asimovonline.com (3421 words)

	The Templeton Gate - Authors - Isaac Asimov
		Asimov is arguably the most influential genre writer ever, especially considering the vast body of his work devoted to areas of interest outside of SF.
		Asimov accomplished it by establishing that the Galactic Empire was the result of the robots strict interpretation of the Laws of Robotics as a mandate for them to insure the perpetual survival of humanity throughout the cosmos.
		It is possible that Asimov just provided story ideas for this series with the writing actually done by his wife, who had previously written other books and stories - much of them in a juvenile vein - under her maiden name, J. Jeppson.
	members.tripod.com /templetongate/asimov.htm (1726 words)

	Isaac Asimov. By Chris Suellentrop - Slate Magazine
		Isaac Asimov was the steak-and-buffet restaurant of American authors: What he lacked in quality, he made up for in volume.
		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.
	www.slate.com /id/2103979 (1177 words)

	WVU Libraries: Isaac Asimov Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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/index.htm (538 words)

	Amazon.com: I, Robot: Books: Isaac Asimov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Asimov's writing style might not be the most polished in science fiction and his characterizations might be a bit wooden, but the concepts presented here will blow you away.
		Isaac Asimov was, of course, a mover and shaker not just in the field of science fiction, but as a science educator for the masses.
		Asimov's timeline portrayal of technological advances, and their wide-ranging social implications, is remarkably fresh, prophetic, even, to this day and certainly a brisker antidote to the pseudo-pop philosophical rantings of lesser imitations.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553294385?v=glance (2280 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.
		A comprehensive collection of resources pertaining to Isaac Asimov (1920-1992), "the quintessential author, who in his lifetime wrote over 500 books that enlightened, entertained, and spanned the realm of human knowledge." Includes links to an authoritative FAQ, publishing information, where to find books, articles, reviews, and other resources.
	www.libraries.wvu.edu /exhibits/asimov (441 words)

	fUSION Anomaly. Isaac Asimov
		Asimov, Isaac (1920-1992), Russian-born American writer, esteemed for his science fiction and his popular works in all branches of science.
		Asimov published his first science-fiction novel in 1950 and his first science book in 1953.
		Asimov authored more than 400 books for young and adult readers, extending beyond science and science fiction to include mystery stories, humor, and history.
	fusionanomaly.net /isaacasimov.html (562 words)

	"Reflections: A Postage Stamp For Isaac" by Robert Silverberg
		Isaac, though, has been gone from our midst since 1992, more than enough time to qualify him for philatelic immortality.
		Isaac was the Great Explainer, taking all knowledge as his province and expounding on it in that wonderfully lucid, irresistible, inimitable style of his.
		In an era when public education in America was producing the sorriest of results Isaac Asimov functioned as a one-man private university, teaching everything that anyone needed to know to everyone who came within reach of his work.
	www.asimovs.com /_issue_0412/ref.shtml (1390 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)

	Amazon.com: Foundation (Foundation Novels (Paperback)): Books: Isaac Asimov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Given the nature of psychohistory, most events unfold in such a way that a critical moment, at which the probability of success is nearly 100%, always arrives for solutions to the problems facing the foundation.
		This drives the story in a suspenseful manner, as Asimov pursues the interrelation of individual freedom and the "mob psychology" of psychohistory.
		I'm not really sure why Asimov thought that the future galaxy would be ruled by an emporer, which is a dying system of government, instead of a democratic republic.
	www.amazon.com /Foundation-Novels-Paperback-Isaac-Asimov/dp/0553293354 (2847 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)

	Isaac Asimov
		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.
		Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Treasury (1988) (with Martin H Greenberg and Joseph Olander)
	www.fantasticfiction.co.uk /a/isaac-asimov (1448 words)

	Asimov's Science Fiction
		David D. Levine’s first story for Asimov’s, “Tk’tk’tk” (March 2005), is currently a finalist for the Hugo award.
		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 (510 words)

	Isaac Asimov Interview with Don Swaim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Isaac Asimov, author of Foundation, I, Robot, The Naked Sun, and hundreds of other books of fiction and nonfiction, remembers the "Golden Age" of science fiction, the early Astounding Science Fiction magazine, and writing for a penny a word in this 1987 interview with Don Swaim.
		Asimov talks about his method of writing as much as he can, aiming for clarity in style, and how science fiction changed after World War II and changed again in the 1960s and 1970s.
		Listen to the Isaac Asimov interview with Don Swaim, 1987
	wiredforbooks.org /isaacasimov (134 words)

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