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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: 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: 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: 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 Such extrapolations are often quickly out of date, since scientific...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:St. James Guide to Science Fiction Writers (4th ed.)Michael Frayn is not an easy writer to categorize. The Tin Men is obviously not SF but witty comedy, school of Waugh; on the other hand, it obviously is SF, as it purports to be written by a computer and satirizes men...
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From:Contemporary Popular WritersIsaac Asimov was almost unbelievably prolific in both the number of books he produced and the variety of genres he tackled. He churned out mysteries, young-adult and adult science fiction, young-adult and adult...
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From:Science Fiction Writers: Critical Studies of the Major Authors from the Early Nineteenth Century to the Present Day (2nd ed.)Introduction ISAAC ASIMOV DID not “burst” into science fiction with a spectacularly successful story, as some science fiction writers have. Instead, his first published story, “Marooned off Vesta,” appeared without...