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	Nemesis (Asimov)
		Nemesis is a science fiction novel by Isaac Asimov.
		The novel is set in an era in which interstellar travel is in the process of being discovered and perfected.
		At the time of the writing, this name was given to a theoretical companion to our sun which could provide a mechanism for periodic disturbances of comets in the Oort cloud, which would then fall inwards causing mass extinctions.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ne/Nemesis_(Asimov).html (215 words)

	Nemesis (Asimov) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the context of Asimov's Foundation Universe, it is told of thousands of years later as a "legend".
		At the time of the writing, the name Nemesis was given to a theoretical companion to Earth's sun which could provide a mechanism for periodic disturbances of comets in the Oort cloud, which would then fall inwards causing mass extinctions.
		Before the novel's opening a "hyper-skipping" mode that allows travel at exactly light speed is used to move a reclusive asteroid colony from the vicinity of Earth to the newly discovered red dwarf, Nemesis (star).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nemesis_(Asimov) (384 words)

	Encyclopedia: Nemesis (Asimov)
		Nemesis is the name given to a hypothetical red dwarf star or brown dwarf, orbiting the Sun at a distance of about 50,000 to 100,000 AU, somewhat beyond the Oort cloud.
		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.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Nemesis-(Asimov) (1090 words)

	Nemesis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nemesis (mythology), the goddess of divine retribution in Greek mythology.
		Nemesis (Transformers), a starship in the fictional universe of the Transformers.
		Nemesis roller coaster, an inverted roller coaster at Alton Towers theme park in the United Kingdom,.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nemesis (376 words)

	Nemesis (1989)
		Asimov is content to drop 60 thousand human beings in extremely limited space and believe that the only problems these people will have is with visiting Earthmen or minorities who somehow do not fit their racial prejudices.
		Rotor is one of these settlements and is only important because its scientists have discovered the hyper-assisted flight: a weird mode of transportation that involves a lot of pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo but that basically reduces to skipping in and out of "hyperspace" traveling sometimes faster and sometimes slower than the speed of light.
		Asimov tells the story from the Nemesis' present and begins with the Earth's past, slowly converging the two stories toward the timeframe of the first.
	www.gotterdammerung.org /books/isaac-asimov/nemesis.html (1105 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 was credited as adviser and co-creator of this television series, which lasted for a 2-hour pilot and six 1-hour episodes on ABC in 1988 before a writer's strike came along and ended the series.
	www.asimovonline.com /asimov_FAQ.html (12119 words)

	Isaac Asimov FAQ, Part 3/4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		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)

	The Outer Rim: The Review - Paper Cuts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Nemesis was published "way back" in 1989 and is quite a different type of book than the Foundation series and Robot novels that we have all come to know and love.
		Nemesis is a tale of a small settlement's venture to another star system, the first such voyage in the history of the human race.
		Asimov takes his time with this tale, letting it develop without much action or the many plot twists with which his novels are usually loaded.
	outer-rim.lweb.net /review/48papercuts1.html (885 words)

	Nemesis by Science Fiction writer Isaac Asimov
		Although the prolific Asimov's forte lies in his dedication to hard science as the basis for his stories, his latest novel features an intriguing mix of believable heroes and villains, a pair of convergent plots, and a nicely foreshadowed conclusion.
		Then, Asimov was writing better stories that sold only to SF fans; today, he writes lesser stories thatmake the bestseller lists.
		Asimov is at his best when his characters discuss science and their schemes for saving Earth's people from destruction by Nemesis.
	www.used-and-new-books.com /sub_isaac-asimov/Nemesis (670 words)

	Books \| Distant pasture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Asimov started writing for Astounding Science Fiction in 1938, and did his best work in the '40s and '50s - the Robot series, the Foundation trilogy - while teaching at the Boston University School of Medicine.
		Nemesis is a neighbouring (double) star, previously unnoticed but heading towards the solar system, like the goddess of divine retribution she is. Her passing will probably make the earth uninhabitable.
		Nemesis does, however, have a habitable planet, Erythro, which sort-of-has a mind of its own made up of tiny, bacteria-like cells.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,3918356-99935,00.html (249 words)

	Amazon.com: The Gods Themselves: Books: Isaac Asimov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		In this novel, Asimov creates a totally believable alien race, complete with three sexes (and deftly handles their mating or lovemaking with sensitivity and creativity.) A bridge between the alien universe and ours offers something for each side, seemingly for free, but scientists on both sides begin to sense that something is evilly wrong.
		Asimov being a professor, this book is filled with real science in a way which integrates with the plot and supports it (contrary to "technobabble" use of science) - this is one of the reasons the book is so good.
		Asimov's speculations, though wild and far-fetched, always had their roots firmly in proven science, and thus his work is speculative fiction at its best; at the same time, the drama and characters are as solid as the basic theories, and the two elements melt together perfectly to create truly great science fiction.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553288105?v=glance (1946 words)

	sffworld.com - Isaac Asimov's Nemesis
		It's one of Asimov's very few non-Foundation/Empire/Robot novels, even though I think it was mentioned in one of the later foundation novels, it's pretty much a standalone.
		Nemesis was an interesting read, although it had a similar tone to some of his later novels (which I didn't quite like, overall, as his earlier ones).
		I'm a big Asimov fan, and this is one book I'd rank as one of his mid-listers, not up there with The Gods Themselves, The Foundation Trilogy or The End of Eternity, but not scraping the dregs with The Stars, Like Dust...
	www.sffworld.com /forums/showthread.php?t=7653 (391 words)

	Nemesis (Isaac Asimov) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		This is an excellent Asimov novel, especially for those that appreciate his style.
		Character is not Asimov's great strength, though he does have some compelling ones, but this is a character-driven story.
		Asimov is the king of hard SF, that is, his stories all have a great reliance on astrophysics as a major plot device.
	www.interference.com /webstore/us/product/0553286285.htm (322 words)

	Fantasy & Science Fiction - April 1990 - Books to Look For
		Nemesis can be read without reference to any of Asimov's other works -- though it doesn't take much mental exercise to connect this story with the later Robots and Foundation series, and see how it explains or foreshadows key events in the other books.
		Asimov is only getting better as he gets older -- a heartening thing for us younger writers to realize, as we move into middle age, for it means we aren't all doomed to follow the downward spiral that so many other grand old coots of the field have marked out for us.
		Nemesis may be his best novel ever, which means it is almost certainly one of the finest novels in science fiction.
	www.hatrack.com /osc/reviews/f&sf/90-04.html (1265 words)

	Isaac Asimov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		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)

	Foundation Series Listing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Asimov considers that there are 15 works in the Foundation series, 14 numbered in the Author's note to 'Prelude to Foundation', plus 'Forward the Foundation', which he would no doubt have numbered at number ten.
		The "second Foundation trilogy", written after the death of Asimov, but with the blessing of the estate, by Gregory Benford, Greg Bear and David Brin, should certainly be included into the series.
		List of all (Asimov's) stories in the order in which they were written.
	users.skynet.be /hermandw/sf/foundser.html (874 words)

	Abebooks: Isaac Asimov
		Asimov died on April 6, 1992 as a result of the HIV infection he contracted from a transfusion of tainted blood.
		Now a fifteen-year-old Rotorian girl has learned of the dire threat that nemesis poses to Earth's people—but she is prevented from warning them.
		Until his death in 1992, author Isaac Asimov would write more than 120 ingenious tales of detection and deduction, and in 66 of them he would present his armchair detectives, the Black Widowers, with the mind-teasing puzzles that they would strive to solve in often-quarrelsome conversation.
	www.abebooks.com /docs/Community/Featured/isaacAsimov.shtml (1012 words)

	Miscellaneous Novels - Kaedrin's Guide to Isaac Asimov
		I would recommend this book to anyone who is thinking about reading Asimov, but doesn't know where to start.
		Nemesis: This novel tells of the story of the first hyperspace travel.
		The majority of the stories are based on Asimov's Azazel character, who has the ironic ability to ruin peoples lives by giving them what they want.
	kaedrin.com /fun/asimov/amisc.html (399 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.ca: Nemesis: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Although the prolific Asimov's forte lies in his dedication to hard science as the basis for his stories, his latest novel features an intriguing mix of believable heroes and villains, a pair of convergent plots, and a...
		Asimov explains the science of this like it's an actual phenomena that's really possible (which of course it is not as far as we know).
		But let's just say that the word Nemesis has several meanings, and the plot twist on the last page (as we realize what's REALLY going to happen in the years to come) is awesome.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0553286285 (784 words)

	Isaak Asimov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		In these stories, Isaac Asimov creates the Three Laws of Robotics and ushers in the Robot Age: when Earth is ruled by master-machines and when robots are more human than mankind.
		Asimov's Three Laws were programmed into real computers thirty years ago at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - with surprising results.
		This is the third volume of Asimov's world-famous trilogy, one of the great classics of science fiction.
	www.execulink.com /~jim21ca/filesj/resume/sci_fi/files/ia.html (1705 words)

	Raymond's Reviews #00009 (Thu Feb 15 11:26:49 EST 1990) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		In Asimov's work the ideas have often been fascinating, and so his work has achieved great success among fans of the genre.
		Asimov has written much better in the recent past, and we can hope he will do so in the future.
		Note: despite Dr. Asimov's introductory disclaimer, the book (especially the last 20 pages) is loaded with foreshadowings and references that tie it to the Foundation/Robots future history; in particular, it sheds a considerable light on the origins of the Spacer culture.
	www.catb.org /~esr/sfreviews/RR00009.html (390 words)

	Nemesis (Asimov) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		At the time of the writing, this name was given to a theoretical companion to Earth's sun which could provide a mechanism for periodic disturbances of comets in the Oort cloud, which would then fall inwards causing mass extinctions.
		This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Nemesis (Asimov) contains research on
		Nemesis (Asimov), Cleanup from August 2005, 1989 books and Science fiction novels by Isaac Asimov.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Nemesis_%28Asimov%29 (302 words)

	ModBlog - Spread The Jam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		I must admit, I have never read any of Isaac Asimov's work (eh, maybe I did read one of his short stories once..) okay I have never read any of his novels, even though my dad had a copy of I'm not sure which novel in the white shelves we call our library..
		I think Asimov did win a few Booker, but no Pulitzer though...science fictions are rare in the PUlitzer annals.
		Asimov is a great writer, in sci-fi, he has visions that surpassed people's minds, even in our era now....
	elisataufik.modblog.com /?show=blogview&blog_id=224476 (964 words)

	Nemesis (Asimov) - RecipeFacts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		This was a radical idea in 1989, but was vindicated with the discovery of the first extrasolar planet orbiting a sun-like star (that orbiting 51 Pegasi) in 1995.
		Question up for the reader due to the death of Isaac Asimov:
		The sentient moon stated that he thinks in thousands of years and absorbed the concept of personality only recently due contact to humans.
	www.recipeland.com /encyclopaedia/index.php/Nemesis_%28Asimov%29 (352 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)

	Nemesis by Isaac Asimov - SFandF.com - Science Fiction Books and Fantasy Books
		Now a fifteen-year-old Rotorian girl has learned of the dire threat that nemesis poses to Earth's people - but she is prevented from warning them.
		And so it will be up to her alone to save both Earth and Rotor as - drawn inexorably by Nemesis, the death star - they hurtle toward certain disaster.
		But upon their arrival on Romulus, the Enterprise crew is faced with a threat that could lead to the destruction of the planet Earth, and Picard comes face to face with a man who may prove to be his most dangerous adversary yet...and a surprisingly personal nemesis.
	www.sfandf.com /html/scifi-fantasy-books.html?id=1&p1=Nemesis (683 words)

	Review of Nemesis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		This is a novel that Asimov wrote to give himself a break from the Foundation and robot novels, but I can’t say that I regard it very highly.
		The social background of the story and the science are generally interesting and Orson Scott Card was right in his review of this book to call it a "page-turner".
		These are common to many of Asimov’s later books—stronger backgrounds with weaker characters— and Nemesis is less interesting than it might have been as a result.
	homepage.mac.com /jhjenkins/Asimov/Books/Book429.html (199 words)

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