Isaac Asimov is one of the most famous science fiction writer of all time. A part that is probably due to the volume of material he wrote, but also because of the size of his imaginative vision.
Over 50 years, Asimov wrote over 500 books, essays and short stories. He won four Hugo Awards and Nebula Award along with countless other lesser-known awards.
Biography
Isaac Asimov was more than just a-Fiction writer. A biochemist with a doctorate to his name, Asimov also wrote a series of popular science books to explain the many scientific concepts in a historical. A long-time member of Mensa (whom he described as intellectually combative), he was more proud to be president of the American Humanist Association.
Born in Russia, January 2, 1920, Asimov grew up in the United States since the age of three years. He started writing his stories as soon as possibleWith eleven years and his career began in earnest in 1939 when he published the story Marooned Off Vesta Amazing Stories.
Asimov went to Columbia University and graduated in 1939 and continues to earn a doctorate in biochemistry in 1948. In the 40 years spent three years at the Naval Air Experimental Station in Philadelphia Navy Yard. After the end of World War II he was drafted into the United States Army for nine months before receiving an honorable discharge.
AsimovGertrude married Blugerman on July 26, 1942, and later had two children in 1951, David and Robyn Joan in 1955.
After his graduation Asimov was a faculty member at Boston University. In 1958 he became a full-time writer, he maintained an association with Boston in a non-teaching capacity.
Isaac Asimov was a humanist and rationalist society. He respects what he saw as a genuine religious conviction in others, but it was his voice in oppositionwhat he believed to be superstitious or unfounded beliefs.
A progressive on many issues, Asimov was a strong supporter of the Democratic Party and against the Vietnam War in 1960.
Asimov and his first wife had divorced 1973rd He met his second wife Janet early the same year.
Asimov died April 6, 1992 in New York at the age of 72 years as a result of HIV through a blood transfusion during heart bypass surgery to be commissioned. He was survived by his secondWife and his children from his first marriage.
Science Fiction Writing
After the publication of his first short story Marooned Off Vesta in 1939 continued to contribute stories to Asimov's science fiction magazines on a regular basis. Until 1941, when he) has published the short story Nightfall (short story fiction has never been described as the best science writing, had published stories on the 32nd
In 1942 Asimovbegan publishing its series of that definition, the Foundation stories. , Foundation and Empire (1952) and Second Foundation (1953) Foundation (1951): The stories were later collected as the Foundation trilogy. These stories, news, the collapse of an interstellar empire and its rebirth through the Foundation to be on the human condition (through the lens of psycho-history) is addressed, rather than gadgets.
Psycho-history is a science fictional postulatesthe course of history can be mapped using mathematics to predict how large populations will respond to situations.
About this time also began Asimov's robot stories, write the three laws of robotics, filed an ethics for robots. Many of these stories were collected as I, Robot 1950th's three laws of robotics are so deeply ingrained in the culture of science fiction, it is not uncommon to see them relegated to the work of other authors.
In 1977,Asimov has lent his name Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, writing an editorial for each issue .. The magazine also now called Asimov's Science Fiction.
In 1982, Asimov returned to both the Foundation and Robot stories that tie them together with his book Edge Foundation (1982) and The Return to Earth (1986). Asimov continued prequel to the events of the Foundation Prelude to Foundation (1988) writes and transmits the Foundation(1992)
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