Isaac Asimov
- Айзек Азимов
- Исаак Юдович Азимов
- Paul French
- Isaak Yudovich Ozimov
- Sort Name
- Asimov, Isaac
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- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Date of birth
- 1920-01-02
- Place of birth
- Russia
- Date of death
- 1992-04-06
- Place of death
- United States
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Isaac Asimov ( AZ-ih-mov; c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) 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. A prolific writer, he wrote or edited more than 500 books. He also wrote an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards. Best known for his hard science fiction, Asimov also wrote mysteries and fantasy, as well as much popular science and other non-fiction.
Asimov's most famous work is the Foundation series, the first three books of which won the one-time Hugo Award for "Best All-Time Series" in 1966. His other major series are the Galactic Empire series and the Robot series. The Galactic Empire novels are set in the much earlier history of the same fictional universe as the Foundation series. Later, with Foundation and Earth (1986), he linked this distant future to the Robot series, creating a unified "future history" for his works. He also wrote over 380 short stories, including the social science fiction novelette "Nightfall", which in 1964 was voted the best short science fiction story of all time by the Science Fiction Writers of America. Asimov wrote the Lucky Starr series of juvenile science-fiction novels using the pen name Paul French.
Most of his popular science books explain concepts in a historical way, going as far back as possible to a time when the science in question was at its simplest stage. Examples include Guide to Science, the three-volume Understanding Physics, and Asimov's Chronology of Science and Discovery. He wrote on numerous other scientific and non-scientific topics, such as chemistry, astronomy, mathematics, history, biblical exegesis, and literary criticism.
He was the president of the American Humanist Association. Several entities have been named in his honor, including the asteroid (5020) Asimov, a crater on Mars, a Brooklyn elementary school, Honda's humanoid robot ASIMO, and four literary awards.
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American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. He was born sometime between October 4, 1919 and January 2, 1920 (exact date unknown).
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Editions
Name | Format | ISBN | Release Date |
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Kind der Zeit | Paperback | 3-453-12537-1 | 1997 |
Lunatico oder Die nächste Welt | Paperback | 3-453-00465-5 | 1978 |
Sterne wie Staub | Paperback | 3-442-23016-0 | 1978-12 |
Das Ende der Dinosaurier: Zehn der besten Stories des weltberühmten Science-Fiction-Autors | Paperback | ? | 1977-06 |
Radioaktiv...! | Paperback | 3-442-23039-X | ? |
Die Foundation-Trilogie | Paperback | 978-3-453-16417-8 | 2007 |
Und Finsternis wird kommen... Vier der besten Stories des weltberühmten SF-Autors | Paperback | ? | 1982-09 |
Wasser für den Mars: Science Fiction-Erzählungen (Goldmann Science Fiction) | Paperback | 3-442-23050-0 | 1975 |
Die "Schwarzen Witwer" laden zum Bankett | Paperback | 3-442-04981-4 | 1985-09 |
Der fiebernde Planet | Paperback | 3-442-23171-X | 1976 |
Lucky Starr | Paperback | 3-404-21138-3 | 1981 |
Die frühe Foundation-Trilogie | Paperback | 978-3-453-19657-5 | 2005 |
Der Todeskanal: Fünf der besten Stories des weltberühmten SF-Autors | Paperback | ? | 1982-11 |
Lucky Starr: Sechs Weltraum-Abenteuer in einem Band | Paperback | 3-404-23200-3 | 2003-10 |
Die nackte Sonne | Paperback | 3-453-30410-1 | 1978 |
Relationships
- Isaac Asimov wrote The Naked Sun
- Isaac Asimov wrote Fantastic Voyage
- Isaac Asimov is/was married to Janet Asimov
- Isaac Asimov wrote Segregationist
- Isaac Asimov wrote The Dead Past
- Isaac Asimov wrote Das Chronoskop
- Isaac Asimov wrote Franchise
- Isaac Asimov wrote The Watery Place
- Isaac Asimov wrote Hell Fire
- Isaac Asimov wrote The Fun They Had
- Isaac Asimov wrote Die Schule
- Isaac Asimov wrote Jokester
- Isaac Asimov wrote Der Witzbold
- Isaac Asimov wrote Someday
- Isaac Asimov wrote Die Träumer
- Isaac Asimov wrote Galley Slave
- Isaac Asimov wrote What's in a Name
- Isaac Asimov wrote Projekt Gans
- Isaac Asimov wrote Anniversary
- Isaac Asimov wrote Das Souvenir
- Isaac Asimov wrote Obituary
- Isaac Asimov wrote Die Nova
- Isaac Asimov wrote To the Victor
- Isaac Asimov wrote Auf den Gewinner
- Isaac Asimov wrote The Dim Rumble
- Isaac Asimov wrote Nummernweise
- Isaac Asimov wrote A Perfect Fit
- Isaac Asimov wrote The Driver
- Isaac Asimov wrote The Redhead
- Isaac Asimov wrote The Intrusion
- Isaac Asimov wrote Belief
- Isaac Asimov wrote Big Game
- Isaac Asimov wrote Child of Time
- Isaac Asimov wrote Death of a Foy
- Isaac Asimov wrote Saving Humanity
- Isaac Asimov wrote Writing Time
- Isaac Asimov wrote Logic is Logic
- Isaac Asimov wrote Galatea
- Isaac Asimov wrote Flight of Fancy
- Isaac Asimov wrote To Your Health
- Isaac Asimov wrote Wine is a Mocker
- Isaac Asimov wrote It's a Job
- Isaac Asimov wrote Found!
- Isaac Asimov wrote Blind Alley
- Isaac Asimov wrote Half-Breed
- Isaac Asimov wrote Heredity
- Isaac Asimov wrote Homo Sol
- Isaac Asimov wrote Hostess
- Isaac Asimov wrote Ignition Point!
- Isaac Asimov wrote Ideas Die Hard
- Isaac Asimov wrote blurb for Die Nebel von Avalon
- Isaac Asimov wrote Jane 5
- Isaac Asimov wrote Key Item
- Isaac Asimov wrote The Dying Night
- Isaac Asimov compiled Die besten Stories von 1940
- Isaac Asimov wrote The Imaginary
- Isaac Asimov wrote Profession
- Isaac Asimov wrote Gift vom Mars
- Isaac Asimov is/was a collaborator on Robert Silverberg
- Isaac Asimov wrote Kind der Zeit
- Isaac Asimov wrote Ströme im All
- Isaac Asimov wrote About Nothing
- Isaac Asimov wrote Angemessen
- Isaac Asimov wrote Blasphemie
- Isaac Asimov wrote Fairer Tausch?
- Isaac Asimov wrote For the Birds
- Isaac Asimov wrote Für die Vögel
- Isaac Asimov wrote Good Taste
- Isaac Asimov wrote Guter Geschmack
- Isaac Asimov wrote Initialzündung!
- Isaac Asimov wrote It Is Coming
- Isaac Asimov wrote Es kommt
- Isaac Asimov wrote The Last Answer
- Isaac Asimov wrote The Last Shuttle
- Isaac Asimov wrote Lest We Remember
- Isaac Asimov wrote Sure Thing
- Isaac Asimov wrote Auf einen Blick
- Isaac Asimov wrote The Martian Way
- Isaac Asimov wrote The C-Chute
- Isaac Asimov wrote Der Todeskanal
- Isaac Asimov wrote What If...
- Isaac Asimov wrote Was, wenn...
- Isaac Asimov wrote In der Tiefe
- Isaac Asimov wrote Sucker Bait
- Isaac Asimov wrote Shah Guido G.
- Isaac Asimov wrote Schah Guido G.
- Isaac Asimov wrote Button, Button
- Isaac Asimov wrote Aus Alt mach Neu
- Isaac Asimov wrote Everest
- Isaac Asimov wrote Mount Everest
- Isaac Asimov wrote The Pause
- Isaac Asimov wrote Die Pause
- Isaac Asimov wrote Let's Not
- Isaac Asimov wrote Verzweiflung
- Isaac Asimov wrote Each an Explorer
- Isaac Asimov wrote Blank!
- Isaac Asimov wrote Nichts!
- Isaac Asimov is part of Ditmar Award(authors) (number: 1973 - Best International Long Fiction - 1. Place)
- Isaac Asimov wrote Der Fahrer
- Isaac Asimov wrote Die Rothaarige
- Isaac Asimov wrote Das falsche Haus
- Isaac Asimov wrote Der Eindringling
- Isaac Asimov wrote Green Patches
- Isaac Asimov wrote Grüne Flecken
- Isaac Asimov wrote Nobody Here But—
- Isaac Asimov wrote Radioaktiv...!
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