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  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.
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  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.
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Asimov was born sometime between October 4, 1919 and January 2, 1920 in Petrovichi shtetl of Smolensk Oblast, RSFSR (now Mahilyow Province, Republic of Belarus) to Anna Rachel Berman Asimov and Judah Asimov, a Jewish family of millers.
Isaac Asimov was a Humanist and a rationalist.
Asimov's tendency to contort his timelines is perhaps most apparent in his later novel Nemesis, in which one group of characters live in the "present" and another group starts in the "past", beginning fifteen years earlier and gradually moving toward the time period of the first group.
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 Isaac Asimov's Robot Series
Isaac Asimov's Robot Series is a series of books by Isaac Asimov, both collections of short stories and novels.
Most of Asimov's robot short stories are set in the first age of positronic robotics and space exploration.
The most unique feature of Asimov's robots are the Three Laws of Robotics, hardwired in the robots' positronic brains, which all robots in his fiction must obey, and which ensure that robots don't turn against their creators.
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 Asimov, Isaac: Table of Contents | Macmillan Computer Sciences: Social Applications
Isaac Asimov was arguably the single most important fiction author to treat the subject of computers.
Asimov once described science fiction as "that branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance upon human beings." Asimov took that definition seriously, and wrote many millions of words to prove his point.
Asimov is arguably most famous and influential for what has become known as Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics, with credit to editor John Campbell, who codified them from Asimov's fiction.
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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 Jew ish family that emigrated to the United States when he was three years old.
Asimov died on April 6, 1992, having contracted HIV from an infected blood transfusion during heart bypass surgery in 1983.
Asimov was a progressive on most political issues, and a staunch supporter of the United States Democratic Party.
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 Comprehensive information and links about Isaac Asimov
Asimov was by 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.
Isaac Asimov was a humanist and a rationalist.
Asimov once explained that his reluctance to write about aliens came from an incident early in his career when s editor John Campbell rejected one of his early science fiction stories because the alien characters were portrayed as superior to the humans.
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 Asimov - Information at Halfvalue.com
Asimov is widely considered a master of the science-fiction genre and, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke, was considered one of the "Big Three" science-fiction writers during his lifetime.
Asimov was born sometime between October 4, 1919 and January 2, 1920 in Petrovichi shtetl of Smolensk Oblast, RSFSR (now Mahilyow Province, Republic of Belarus) to Anna Rachel Berman Asimov and Judah Asimov, a Jewish family of millers.
Asimov's tendency to contort his timelines is perhaps most apparent in his later novel Nemesis, in which one group of characters live in the "present" and another group starts in the "past", beginning fifteen years earlier and gradually moving toward the time period of the first group.
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 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.
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 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.
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 ASIMOV : Encyclopedia Entry
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, and once returning home from the army base in Oahu in 1946).
Asimov coined the term robotics without suspecting that it might be an original word; at the time, he believed it was simply the natural analogue of mechanics, hydraulics, and so forth.
Asimov's tendency to contort his timelines is perhaps most apparent in his later novel Nemesis, in which one group of characters live in the "present" and another group starts in the "past", beginning fifteen years earlier and gradually moving toward the time period of the first group.
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 Isaac Asimov FAQ, Part 1/4
However, since Asimov often did not count as "his" books those on which a publisher merely slapped his name, and because a number of his books were published in limited editions by obscure presses, these sources cannot be taken as complete.
Asimov was born (officially) January 2, 1920, in the town of Petrovichi (pronounced peh-TRUV-ih-chee), then in the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic (czarist Russia no longer existed, while the USSR hadn't formed yet) and now in Russia.
Asimov started working in his parents' Essex Street candy store in 1929, when his mother became unable to work a full day due to her third pregnancy, and learned the steady work habits that would stay with him for the rest of his life.
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 Isaac Asimov
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 born around January 2, 1920 (his date of birth for official purposesandmdash;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.
Asimov was fear of flyingafraid 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).
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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.
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".
In 1956 Asimov published the short story "The Last Question", his personal favorite and considered by many to be a contender to "Nightfall".
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Asimov is widely considered a master of the science-fiction genre and, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke, was considered 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, and once returning home from the army base in Oahu in 1946).
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.
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 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 a Jewish family that emigrated to the United States when he was three years old.
Asimov was also a claustrophile, that is, he enjoyed small, enclosed spaces (the opposite of a claustrophobe).
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].
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 Stardust Musings and Thoughts for the Freethinker: Isaac Asimov : January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992
Asimov was an atheist: "I am Jewish in the sense that if an Arab wanted to throw a rock at a Jew, I would qualify as a target as far as he was concerned.
Asimov was married twice, and had a son and daughter.
Isaac's death from heart and kidney failure was a consequence of AIDS contracted from a transfusion of tainted blood during his December 1983 triple-bypass operation.
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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.
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 Isaac Asimov biography, information, news, links, pictures (pics) and products (author: )
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 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.
Asimov remained on the faculty as an associate professor, being promoted in 1979 to full professor, and his personal papers from 1965 onward are archived at Boston University's Mugar Memorial Library, where they consume 464 boxes on 71 meters of shelf space.
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 Isaac Asimov World - Selected bibliography
Asimov aspired to write 500 books but did not quite reach that total; he wrote more than 463 titles.
Asimov could have written an Opus 400, which would have been a celebration of his 400th title; the bibliography lists only up to his commemorative Opus 300.
Later in life, Asimov synthesized them into a single coherent 'history' that appeared in the extension of the Foundation series.
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 Isaac Asimov: It's Been a Good Life
Asimov, covers his entire life, having been finished only two years before his death, but is more a collection of short memoirs and opinions rather than an actual autobiographical narrative.
Asimov's childhood is treated only briefly, mostly focusing on his early interest in science fiction and some information of the formation of Asimov's religious beliefs (or lack thereof).
New information about Asimov, as well as Janet Asimov's own recollections and reflections on her husband's death, are contained in an epilogue which reveals that Asimov's death was not a result of the "heart and kidney failure" (Locus, May 1992), but something else.
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 Isaac Asimov's Robot Series
The unique feature of Asimov's robots are the Three Laws of Robotics, hardwired in the robots' positronic brains, which all robots in his fiction must obey, and which ensure that robots don't turn against their creators.
Although Adam was not one of the Asimov robots, he seemed to exhibit the First Law in his actions.
The Rest of the Robots (1964), collection of Asimov's robot stories written before 1964 that were not included in I, Robot, all of which were later also included in The Complete Robot.
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Suggested," as the credits put it, by Isaac Asimovs 1950 novel of the same title (the credited screenwriters are Jeff Vintar and Akiva Goldsman), directed by the imaginative visual stylist Alex Proyas and starring one of the most charismatic stars in movies, I, Robot - seemed like a sure thing..
The new movie I, Robot, based on Isaac Asimov s 1950 book of the same title and starring Will Smith, topped the box office on its opening weekend..
The film is billed as "suggested by Isaac Asimovs book", meaning that it incorporates some elements of the robot stories that appeared in Asimovs 1950 short story collection..
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 The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov, a Robot series novel   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) was an amazingly prolific writer, and arguably the most important science fiction author of the Twentieth Century (Robert Heinlein being the other leading contender).
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).
Of particular note are Before the Golden Age (1974), in which Asimov himself selected some of his favorite stories from 1931-1938; Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories, collecting in 24 volumes notable stories from 1939-1962; and the first seven volumes of The Hugo Winners, presenting winners of short fiction Hugo awards.
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 Isaac Asimov complete bibliography - ExampleProblems.com
This is believed to be a complete bibliography of the work of Isaac Asimov that is arranged alphabetically.
Asimov's biographical encyclopedia of science and technology, 2d ed.
Asimov's biographical encyclopedia of science and technology, 3d ed.
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