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From: BooklistGr. 3-5. Isaac Asimov's New Library of the Universe series closely resembles Isaac Asimov's Library of the Universe series, published in 1988. Somewhat rewritten, the books include a few bits of new information and...
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From: ExtrapolationAs a psychologist specializing in psychobiography, and as a science fiction fan for over thirty-five years, I have become intrigued by the psychology of science fiction writers. Why do they write, and why science...
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From: Analog: Science Fiction and FactIsaac Asimov's The Roving Mind was first published in 1983. The publisher has decided it is worthwhile to reissue it with a foreword by Paul Kurtz, founder of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of...
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From: Science Books & FilmsIsaac Asimov has managed to squeeze into 32 pages an excellent geological, meteorological, and biological sketch of a dynamic earth. Despite being painted with a broad brush, it contains enough fascinating detail to...
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From: FoundationIt is always cheering to clear up a troublesome literary and scientific mystery. Isaac Asimov's long-running chronicles of our future have posed one such problem, and now in his seventieth year the answer can at last be...
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From:St. James Guide to Science Fiction Writers (4th ed.)At the age of three, Isaac Asimov was brought to Brooklyn from Petrovichi, Russia, by penniless immigrant parents. He grew up in a series of candy stores, earned a Ph.D. in chemistry and reached the rank of associate...
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From: The New York Times[(essay date 7 April 1992) In the following obituary, Rothstein reviews Asimov's life and career.] Isaac Asimov, the pre-eminent popular-science writer of the day and for more than 40 years one of the best and...
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From: Foundation
Reiterated Plots and Themes in the Robot Novels: Getting away with Murder and Overcoming Programming
Just as the Robot stories and novels exhibit the same chaos-theory concepts as does the Foundation series, but in a somewhat different way, so too do the Robot novels exhibit the same fractal quality of duplication... -
From: Christian Science MonitorIsaac Asimov was his own book-of-the-month club. Between 1950, when Doubleday published his first science-fiction novel, Pebble in the Sky, and his death in 1992, Asimov wrote more than 470 books--both fiction and...
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From: The Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov, DoubledayBefore writing "Nightfall" Asimov had written thirty-one stories and sold seventeen (four more would sell eventually). "Marooned Off Vesta," perhaps "The Callistan Menace," and "Homo Sol," along with the robot stories...
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From: BooklistStanley Asimov, editor of this volume [Yours, Isaac Asimov], is a seasoned journalist as well as the brother of the late science fiction writer, and he brought both professional skill and fraternal affection to the task...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)With nearly five hundred books to his credit, Isaac Asimov was probably the most prolific American writer of the century, and his range was as vast as his output. He was among other things a master at explaining science...
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From: Voice of Youth AdvocatesRobert A. Heinlein has his Grumbles From the Grave: the late Isaac Asimov now has his Gold, a collection of Asimov's previously uncollected short fiction and nonfiction pieces. The fiction is at the least serviceable,...
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From: Booklist"Final" volumes of the prolific Asimov's various works probably will be forthcoming for some time yet but should always be considered seriously because of the number of his admirers who want to read all of his work. This...
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From: Isaac Asimov[(essay date 1991) In the following essay, Hassler scrutinizes Isaac Asimov's literary origins and assesses his importance as a short fiction writer.] Many critics writing on Asimov's fiction have argued that the...
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From: School Library JournalGr 3-4--Originally issued in 1988 with different titles, these look-alike entries from an unusually wide-ranging series have been redesigned and (slightly) updated. They still retain some of the originals' flaws--scanty...
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From: ExtrapolationMany science fiction writers attempt to create plausible future worlds by extrapolating scientific, technological, and social trends into the future. Such extrapolations are often quickly out of date, since scientific...
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From:St. James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers (4th ed.)Both science fiction and detective fiction by Isaac Asimov unite in revealing in the author a fondness for the fact, a delight in reasoning from careful observation, and an absorption in cause and effect. Several...
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From: New York Review of Science FictionIf we don't know how many children had Lady Macbeth, maybe we can figure out how many books wrote Isaac Asimov. It's an interesting question. Asimov grew more and more passionate about the number of his books as the...
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From: Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature[(essay date Spring-Summer 1980) Beauchamp is an American critic and educator, who has written extensively on science fiction. In the following essay, he examines the way in which technology is characterized in Asimov's...