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Isaac Asimov
Books and Stories
Isaac Asimov was born in Petrovichi, Russia in 1920. He was awarded a PhD in Biochemistry in 1948 and joined the faculty of Boston University. He started writing science fiction in 1939. He wrote:
"at the age of nine, he found the love of his life (in the inanimate sense) when he discovered his first science-fiction magazine. By the time he was eleven, he began to write stories, and at eighteen, he actually worked up the nerve to submit one. It was rejected. After four long months of tribulation and suffering, he sold his first story and, thereafter, he never looked back."
His extraordinary output comprises some 500 volumes on every conceivable subject. His most famous science fiction works include the Foundation trilogy and I, Robot. Select
a novel or story title to see the inventions from that work:
All the Troubles in the World, Super-Science Fiction, 1958
Catch That Rabbit, Astounding Science-Fiction, 1944
Caves of Steel, Galaxy, 1953
Dead Hand, Astounding Science Fiction, 1946
Evidence, Astounding Science Fiction, 1946
Fantastic Voyage (Novel), Bantam, 1966
Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain, Spectra, 1987
Foundation, Doubleday, 1951
Foundation and Empire, Doubleday, 1952
Franchise, If: Worlds of Science Fiction, 1955
Homo Sol, Astounding Science Fiction, 1940
Jokester, Infinity Science Fiction, 1956
Lenny, Infinity Science Fiction, 1958
Liar, Astounding Science Fiction, 1941
Light Verse, Saturday Evening Post, 1973
Lucky Starr and the Moons of Jupiter, Doubleday, 1957
Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus, Doubleday, 1954
Point of View, Boy's Life, 1975
Prelude to Foundation, Doubleday, 1988
Reason, Astounding Science Fiction, 1941
Robbie (Strange Playfellow), Super Science Stories, 1940
Robot AL-76 Goes Astray, Ziff-Davis, 1941
Runaround, Street and Smith, 1942
Sally, Fantastic, 1953
Second Foundation, Doubleday, 1953
Someday, Infinity, 1956
Sucker Bait, Astounding Science Fiction, 1954
The Bicentennial Man, Ballantine Books, 1976
The Currents of Space, Doubleday, 1962
The Dead Past, Astounding Science Fiction, 1956
The Dead Past, Astounding Science Fiction, 1957
The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline, Astounding Science Fiction, 1948
The Evitable Conflict, Astounding Science Fiction, 1950
The Feeling of Power, Worlds of Science Fiction, 1958
The Fun They Had, Children's Magazine, 1951
The Last Question, Science Fiction Quarterly, 1956
The Stars, Like Dust, Doubleday, 1951
Tyrann, Galaxy, 1951
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