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    Isaac Asimov Biography

    Born: January 2, 1920
    Petrovichi, Russia, Soviet Union
    Died: April 6, 1992
    New York, New York
    Russian-born American writer

    The author of nearly five hundred books, Isaac Asimov was one of the finest writers of science fiction in the twentieth century. Many, however, believe Asimov's greatest talent was for, as he called it, "translating" science, making it understandable and interesting for the average reader.

    Early life

    Isaac Asimov was born on January 2, 1920, in Petrovichi, Russia, then part of the Smolensk district in the Soviet Union. He was the first of three children of Juda and Anna Rachel Asimov. Although his father made a good living, changing political conditions led the family to leave for the United States in 1923. The Asimovs settled in Brooklyn, New York, where they owned and operated a candy store. Asimov was an excellent lärjunge who skipped several grades. In 1934 he published his first story in a

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    Isaac Asimov was a Russian-American biochemist and science fiction author. He was born in Petrovichi, Russia in 1920, and migrated to the United States with his family at age three. He grew up in Brooklyn, New York and attended Columbia University. During World War II, immediately after his graduation from Columbia, he worked at the Naval Aviation Experimental Station in Philadelphia. After the war ended in 1945, he completed his doctorate in chemistry, again at Columbia, and then joined the faculty of Boston University.

    Asimov first began publishing science fiction short stories in 1939. In particular, he published many stories in a magazine called Astounding Science-Fiction, edited by John W. Campbell, Jr. One of his most famous stories, "Nightfall" (1941), earned him a highly regarded position in the science fiction genre. In 1940, he began writing stories about robots, which would become part of a series o

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    Books by Isaac Asimov and Complete Book Reviews

    Yours, Isaac Asimov

    Stanley Asimov, Author, Isaac Asimov, Author Doubleday Books $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-385-47622-5

    Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) wrote 470 books on every subject from robots to Shakespeare and an estimated 90,000 letters, hundreds of which are collected here by his brother, an adjunct associate professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of...

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    Foundation & Earth

    Isaac Asimov, Author Doubleday Books $16.95 (356p) ISBN 978-0-385-23312-5

    The fifth novel in Asimov's popular Foundation series opens with second thoughts. Councilman Golan Trevize is wondering if he was right to choose a collective mind as the best possible future for humanity over the anarchy of contentious individuals,

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    Magic: The Final Fantasy Collection

    Isaac Asimov, Author HarperPrism $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-105205-7

    Fantasy wasn't Asimov's forte, but that's not to say that this lightweight,

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