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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. During his lifetime, Asimov was considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke. He wrote or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards. Best known for his hard science fiction, Asimov also wrote mysteries and fantasy, a…
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culture · American writer and biochemist (1920–1992) · biochemist · novelist · prose writer · autobiographer · science fiction writer · science writer · non-fiction writer · university teacher · journalist · screenwriter · also Isaac Asimov, Isaak Osimov, Paul French, Asimov, Isaak Ozimov, Itzhak Ozimov
Born 2 January 1920 · Died 6 April 1992 · Q34981
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When the twenty-seven independent Trading Worlds, united only by their distrust of mother planet of the Foundation, concert an assembly among themselves, and each is big with a pride grown of its smallness, hardened by its own insularity and embittered by eternal danger — there are preliminary negotiations to be overcome of a pettiness sufficiently staggering to heart-sicken the most persevering.
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2026· 16 entries
Financial Times: The Last Emperor of China — Paul French on the life of Puyi
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El Confidencial: Tyler Winklevoss, archienemigo de Zuckerberg, sobre la seguridad de la IA: "Isaac Asimov ya resolvió el problema en 1940"
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Inbox.eu: Tyler Winklevoss, el 'archienemigo' de Zuckerberg, sobre la seguridad de la IA: "Isaac Asimov ya resolvió el problema en 1940"
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Gizmodo: Noted Brain Genius Tyler Winklevoss Thinks Isaac Asimov Already Solved the AI Apocalypse
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SlashFilm: How Spock Led Isaac Asimov To A Major Star Trek And Personal Breakthrough
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South China Morning Post: Paul French lifts veil on final months of China’s last emperor in the Forbidden City
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La Nación: Reseña. Las palabras y los mitos, de Isaac Asimov
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ScreenRant: Isaac Asimov Meets Interstellar In Netflix's 8-Part Sci-Fi Series Confirmed For 2 More Seasons
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“Such unsubtle escapism! Really, Dr. Fara, such folly smacks of genius. A lesser mind would be incapable of it.”
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“When the twenty-seven independent Trading Worlds, united only by their distrust of mother planet of the Foundation, concert an assembly among themselves, and each is big with a pride grown of its smallness, hardened by its own insularity and embittered by eternal danger — there are preliminary negotiations to be overcome of a pettiness sufficiently staggering to heart-sicken the most persevering.”
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“I make no secret of the fact that in my mysteries I use Agatha Christie as my model. In my opinion, her mysteries are the best ever written, far better than the Sherlock Holmes stories, and Hercule Poirot is the best detective fiction has seen. Why should I not use as my model what I consider the best?”
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“s anthology of Jewish science fiction, Wandering Stars:”
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“Of all the writing I do, fiction, non-fiction, adult, or juvenile, these F & SF articles are by far the most fun”
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“My father, for all his education as an Orthodox Jew, was not Orthodox in his heart”
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as.com: Isaac Asimov, American writer: “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom”
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2025· 2 entries
moneycontrol.com: Isaac Asimov's 105th birth anniversary: what you need to know about the GOAT sci-fi writer
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“Citation choisie pour le 2 janvier 2025.”
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2023· 1 entry
Collider: Isaac Asimov Was Actually a Star Wars Fanboy
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2022· 10 entries
Published video “Liar, 4”.
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Published video “Reason, 10”.
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Published video “Liar, 3”.
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Published video “Liar, 2”.
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Published video “Reason, 11”.
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Published video “Runaround, 6”.
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Published video “Runaround, 5”.
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Published video “Reason, 9”.
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Published video “Runaround, 4”.
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Published video “Runaround, 3”.
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2021· 2 entries
Jewish Telegraphic Agency: Isaac Asimov’s epic ‘Foundation’ series is now a TV show. His Jewish life was complicated.
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Publishers Weekly: Books by Isaac Asimov and Complete Book Reviews
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2020· 1 entry
The Forward: For Isaac Asimov, Galactic Talmudist, on his 100th birthday
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2018· 1 entry
Awarded Retro Hugo Award for Best Novelette for Foundation (2018).
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2017· 1 entry
Inc.: Isaac Asimov Published 500 Books and Never Suffered From Writer’s Block. Here’s How He Did It
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2016· 4 entries
The Guardian: I, Robot by Isaac Asimov – review
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Awarded Retro Hugo Award for Best Short Story for Robbie (2016).
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“Citation choisie pour le 12 novembre 2016.”
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Regarding the founding of CSICOP, Kendrick Frazier said that Asimov was "a key figure in the Skeptical movement who is less well known and appreciated today, but was very much in the public eye back then
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2014· 2 entries
The Guardian: Isaac Asimov’s Foundation novels: are they really filmable?
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NPR: Isaac Asimov Right On With Some 2014 Predictions
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2008· 1 entry
“Citation choisie pour le 3 août 2008.”
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2006· 2 entries
Awarded Great Immigrants Award (2006).
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Was named by Carnegie Corporation of New York to the inaugural class of winners of the Great Immigrants Award
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1997· 2 entries
Awarded Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame (1997).
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– The Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame inducted Asimov in its second class of two deceased and two living persons, along with H
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded Retro Hugo Award for Best Novel (1996).
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1995· 1 entry
Awarded Hugo Award for Best Related Work (1995).
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1992· 29 entries
Awarded Hugo Award for Best Novelette for Gold (1992).
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Died 1992-04-06.
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“Outside intelligences, exploring the Solar System with true impartiality, would be quite likely to enter the Sun in their records thus: Star X, spectral class G0, 4 planets plus debris.”
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“Whereas the second week in April each year is designated as 'National Robotics Week', recognizing the accomplishments of Isaac Asimov, who immigrated to America, taught science, wrote science books for children and adults, first used the term robotics, developed the Three Laws of Robotics, and died in April 1992: Now, therefore, be it resolved ...”
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Served as honorary president of the AHA, and was succeeded by his friend and fellow writer Kurt Vonnegut
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“I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.”
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“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!', but 'That's funny ...”
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“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
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“Niestety, panowie, upadek Imperium to proces tak potężnych rozmiarów, że nie łatwo mu się przeciwstawić.”
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“Nie daj się nigdy odwieść swoim zasadom moralnym od zrobienia tego, co słuszne.”
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“A liberdade não tem preço, a mera possibilidade de obtê-la já vale a pena.”
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“Żeby coś osiągnąć, nie wystarczy planować. Trzeba też umieć improwizować.”
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“Jednym z podstawowych celów satyry jest wytykanie negatywnych cech społeczeństwa. Satyra pokazuje głupotę w ekstremalnym wymiarze, takim, którego nie można nie zauważyć.”
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“Jestem człowiekiem, który nie wierzy, że przedmioty mogą mieć duszę i własne życie. Może dlatego płatały mi one różne psikusy, zarówno te małe urządzonka, jak i całe ciała niebieskie.”
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“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
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“Pamiętamy wspaniałe, kochające i dbające o nas matki, które słodkim głosem mówiły: Załóż kalosze przed wyjściem, bo się przeziębisz… Zjedz warzywa; są zdrowe… Nie bierz następnego kawałka ciasta; zepsują ci się zęby… Jak udało ci się tak zabrudzić ubranie?Niektórzy nawet w dorosłym życiu otrzymują dokładnie takie same uwagi o kaloszach, warzywach, ubraniach, wypowiadane przez cudowne żony.”
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“There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.”
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“Chciałbym, aby ludzie zachowali Ziemię w stanie owej cudownej użyteczności dla życia, w jakim ją zastali. Myślę, że byłoby grzechem wobec Wszechświata, gdybyśmy zniszczyli naszą kolebkę.”
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“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.”
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“Where any answer is possible, all answers are meaningless.”
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“I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.”
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“Jeśli sięgniemy do doświadczeń płynących z historii ludzkości, to możemy być absolutnie pewni co do prawdziwości wniosku, że tylko dzięki pogłębieniu wiedzy będziemy w stanie nakarmić i odziać gatunek ludzki. W przeszłości wraz ze wzrostem wiedzy rosła także zdolność człowieka do kontrolowania środowiska, w którym żyje, do zapewnienia sobie bezpieczeństwa.”
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“Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.”
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“Nasza encyklopedia tkwi w całości w komputerze i jest codziennie poprawiana i uzupełniana.”
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“Life is a journey, but don't worry, you'll find a parking spot at the end.”
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“Opis: po obliczeniu orbity Kalgiasza Dwa.”
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“All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.”
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“Isaac Asimov's science fiction magazine: Volume 16,Edições 4-7 - página 48, Isaac Asimov - Davis Publications, 1992”
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“Worlds In Order" in The Secret of the Universe (1992), p. 63. Often misquoted as "Jupiter plus debris.”
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1988· 1 entry
Collaborated with screenwriter Michael Wagner as the creative consultant on the short lived SF-detective TV series Probe starring Parker Stevenson
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1987· 4 entries
Awarded Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award (1987).
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Awarded Locus Award for Best Short Story for Robot Dreams (1987).
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The Asimovs co-wrote How to Enjoy Writing: A Book of Aid and Comfort
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“Past, present, and future - página 65, Isaac Asimov - Prometheus Books, 1987, ISBN 0879753935, 9780879753931 - 374 páginas”
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1985· 1 entry
Awarded Cosmos 2000 Award for The Robots of Dawn (1985).
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1984· 2 entries
Awarded Humanist of the Year (1984).
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The American Humanist Association (AHA) named him the Humanist of the Year
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1983· 2 entries
Awarded Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel for Foundation's Edge (1983).
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Awarded Hugo Award for Best Novel for Foundation's Edge (1983).
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1982· 2 entries
When asked in an interview in 1982 if he was an atheist, Asimov replied,
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The second half of his science fiction career began with the publication of Foundation's Edge
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1980· 4 entries
“Muitas vezes atribuída como observação para National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) (1980)”
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“(Original engl.: "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge'." "A Cult of Ignorance", Newsweek (21 January 1980, S. 19). Übersetzung: Grafite”
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“s 1984. Though dismissive of his attacks, James Machell has stated that they”
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Science fiction scholar James Gunn wrote of I, Robot:
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1979· 1 entry
The university honored his writing by promoting him to full professor of biochemistry
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1978· 1 entry
“Life and time - página 245, Isaac Asimov - Doubleday, 1978, ISBN 0385146450, 9780385146456 - 273 páginas”
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1977· 5 entries
Awarded Locus Award for Best Novelette for The Bicentennial Man (1977).
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Awarded Hugo Award for Best Novelette for The Bicentennial Man (1977).
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Awarded Nebula Award for Best Novelette for The Bicentennial Man (1977).
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Asimov had a heart attack
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Asimov lent his name to Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (now Asimov's Science Fiction) and wrote an editorial for each issue
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1975· 4 entries
Awarded Locus Award for Best Reprint Anthology/Collection for Before the Golden Age (1975).
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Awarded Klumpke-Roberts Award (1975).
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“Science Past, Science Future”
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Wrote of these essays: "I get more pleasure out of them than out of any other writing assignment
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1973· 5 entries
Two weeks after his divorce from Gertrude
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Awarded Hugo Award for Best Novel for The Gods Themselves (1973).
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Awarded Nebula Award for Best Novel for The Gods Themselves (1973).
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Awarded Locus Award for Best Novel for The Gods Themselves (1973).
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Asimov published a proposal for calendar reform, called the World Season Calendar
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1972· 4 entries
That from that date he never wrote a science fiction story that was not published (except for two "special cases")
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In his later years, Asimov found enjoyment traveling on cruise ships, beginning in 1972 when he viewed the Apollo 17 launch from a cruise ship.
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His stand-alone novel The Gods Themselves was published to general acclaim, winning Best Novel in the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards
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When he viewed the Apollo 17 launch from a cruise ship
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1971· 2 entries
“The question then is not whether or not a girl should be touched. The question is merely where, when, and how she should be touched.”
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As a response to the popularity of sexual guidebooks such as The Sensuous Woman (by "J") and The Sensuous Man (by "M"), Asimov published The Sensuous Dirty Old Man under the byline "Dr
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1970· 1 entry
Separated and Asimov moved back to New York, this time to the Upper West Side of Manhattan where he lived for the rest of his life
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1969· 5 entries
“the happiest of all my associations with science fiction magazines”
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Asimov annually contributed to a Judah Asimov Scholarship Fund at Brandeis University
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That "In the last ten years, I've done a couple of novels, some collections, a dozen or so stories, but that's nothing"
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That "the United States went into a kind of tizzy, and so did I
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That he had "the happiest of all my associations with science fiction magazines" with Fantasy & Science Fiction; "I have no complaints about Astounding, Galaxy, or any of the rest, heaven knows, but F&SF has become somet
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1968· 1 entry
The Science Fiction Writers of America voted "Nightfall" the best science fiction short story ever written
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1967· 3 entries
Awarded Edward E. Smith Memorial Award (1967).
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And the New Testament in 1969—and then combined them into one 1,300-page volume in 1981
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That "the knowledgeable, skillful science writer is worth his weight in contracts", with "twice as much work as he can possibly handle"
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1966· 2 entries
Awarded Hugo Award for Best All-Time Series for Foundation Trilogy (1966).
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The Foundation trilogy won the Hugo Award for the all-time best series of science fiction and fantasy novels, and they along with the Robot series are his most famous science fiction
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1965· 1 entry
Awarded James T. Grady-James H. Stack Award for Interpreting Chemistry (1965).
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1964· 1 entry
Was voted the best short science fiction story of all time by the Science Fiction Writers of America
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1963· 5 entries
Awarded Hugo Award (1963).
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– Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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“View from a Height - página 227, Doubleday, 1963, 252 páginas”
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“By Jove!" in View from a Height (1963)”
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Won a Hugo Award—his first—for his essays for F&SF
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1962· 1 entry
“Fact and Fancy (1962), p. 11”
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1960· 2 entries
“The Hungry People" (October 1960) in Mademoiselle, reprinted in Is Anyone There? (1967), pp. 48–49”
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“The Wellsprings of Life (1960), p. 141”
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1959· 3 entries
After a recommendation from Arthur Obermayer, Asimov's friend and a scientist on the U
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“How Do People Get New Ideas?" (1959)”
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“How Do People Get New Ideas?”
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1957· 4 entries
Wrote more nonfiction, particularly popular science books, and less science fiction
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“Escape Into Reality" (1957) in The Humanist, reprinted in Is Anyone There? (1967), pp. 288–289”
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– Thomas Alva Edison Foundation Award for best science book for youth, for Building Blocks of the Universe
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Engendered public concern over a "science gap"
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1955· 1 entry
Was promoted to tenured associate professor
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1951· 1 entry
“The foundation trilogy: three classics of science fiction - página 135, Doubleday science fiction, The Foundation Trilogy: Three Classics of Science Fiction, Isaac Asimov, Foundation series, Isaac Asimov, Editora Doubleday, 1951, 695 páginas”
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1949· 2 entries
Book publisher Doubleday's science fiction editor Walter I
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With a $5,000 salary (equivalent to $68,000 in 2025), maintaining this position for several years
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1948· 1 entry
Also wrote a spoof chemistry article, "The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline"
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1946· 1 entry
A bureaucratic error caused his military allotment to be stopped, and he was removed from a task force days before it sailed to participate in Operation Crossroads nuclear weapons tests at Bikini Atoll
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1942· 2 entries
Asimov published the first of his Foundation stories—later collected in the Foundation trilogy: Foundation (1951), Foundation and Empire (1952), and Second Foundation (1953)
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“It seems an uncommonly woundabout and hopelessly wigmawolish method of getting anywheahs.”
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1941· 1 entry
And earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree in chemistry in 1948
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1939· 2 entries
Studied at Columbia University (1939).
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And whose talent and stardom were immediately obvious—Asimov "(this is not false modesty) came up only gradually"
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1938· 3 entries
Sold the third story he finished, "Marooned Off Vesta", to Amazing Stories, edited by Raymond A
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And personally submitted it to Astounding editor John W
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Puzzled by a change in the schedule of Astounding Science Fiction, Asimov visited its publisher Street & Smith Publications
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1936· 1 entry
Asimov finished his Bachelor of Science degree at Columbia's Morningside Heights campus (later the Columbia University School of General Studies) in 1939
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1929· 1 entry
When he began reading the pulp magazines sold in his family's candy store
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1923· 1 entry
And their name had to be spelled in the Latin alphabet, Asimov's father spelled it with an S, believing this letter to be pronounced like Z (as in German), and so it became Asimov
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1921· 1 entry
Asimov and 16 other children in Petrovichi developed double pneumonia
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1920· 2 entries
Born 1920-01-02.
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“s. Influence Paul Krugman, holder of a Nobel Prize in Economics, stated Asimov”
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