Isaac Asimov

 WA Even though I was banging, I had this secret life all to myself that revolved around comics and science fiction," he says as our drive shifts yet again, through Skyway. "I just couldn't really share it with anybody, but I was big into Isaac Asimov and ...

By Alasdair Wilkins For that we turn to Asimov's two-volume autobiography, In Memory Yet Green and In Joy Still Felt. He describes the story's rather simple genesis: I tried both [Astounding Science Fiction editor John] Campbell and [Galaxy Science Fiction editor Horace] Gold after that, and both rejecte...

 PA 1992, science-fiction author Isaac Asimov died in New York at age 72. - 1994, the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi were killed in a plane crash near Rwanda's capital; widespread genocide erupted in Rwanda the next day over claims the plane had been ...

Isaac Asimov found such tales of robot rebellion tiresome—he dubbed them the “Frankenstein complex”—and resolved to write stories in a different way. Thus his fictional robots are pre-programmed with inescapable “laws of robotics,” the first of which ...

Science fiction was a ghetto in the '50s and '60s, and Dick was one of its least fashionable residents: While Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke were writing best sellers, he counted himself lucky not to be collecting rejection slips. ...

 Canada The obvious reaction was, “Wow! Was that an Isaac Asimov plot? So very science fiction, Spike!” Wetlands feels like a bit of a throwback to that to me. Girls today are ahead of this book, way ahead. It's slightly less frank and certainly less witty ...

 OK - I’m an SF geek, raised on DC superhero comic books, and a big reader of science fiction and speculative fiction novels from Isaac Asimov to CJ Cherryh to ...

 NC - a Hugo Award as the best science fiction series ever. Asimov has Selden, a mathematics professor during the declining years of a future Galactic Empire, ...

Isaac Asimov, Foundation Series? A. Clarke, Rama series? Never heard of Snow Crash before, gonna have to check that one out. Cheers. Posted 11/10/2008 at 12:50:55 PM. Chris said:. I would love to see something done from the Sword of ...

 MS - Granted, my predilection was more toward comic books, but I followed a few "hard" science fiction writers too - Isaac Asimov and Frank Herbert being my ...

By Jacob Also, they are rather poetic, which is pretty amazing considering that it’s translated from Polish. My friend Alex lent Asimov’s Foundation to me. I’m going to read it. He speaks highly of the series, so I’m excited. ...

By Alex Billington Just the trilogy, Foundation through Second Foundation, those are the ones the movies will be based on and those are the great ones. Read those. The rest aren't bad, they're Asimov after all, but the original trilogy is special. ...

By Mike Garibaldi Frick Here are a few of my favorite quotations: Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right. Isaac Asimov) If you cannot be a poet, be the poem. David Carradine) Murder is a crime. Writing about it isn't. Sex is not a crime, but writing about it is. Why? Larry Flynt)

By John Dupuis Podkayne of Mars by Robert A. Heinlein Lest darkness fall by L. Sprague de Camp 2001: A space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke the space beyond by John W. Campbell, jr. Shatterday by Harlan Ellison Nightfall and other stories by Isaac Asimov 100 sf short short stories edited by Isaac Asimov and others