Who is Isaac Asimov?
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- Опубліковано 21 тра 2022
- Isaac Asimov was a prolific and highly successful science fiction writer and biochemist who, during his career wrote and edited around 500 books, the most acclaimed of which are contained within the Foundation and Robot series...
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MY SCI-FI NOVELS
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DELPHINE DESCENDS
After her family is killed and her homeworld occupied, young Kathreen Martin is sent to the distant world of Furoris for re-education. She will live the rest of her life as a serf - to be bought and sold as a commodity of the Imperial Network.
When her only chance of escape is ruined, a chance mistaken identity offers her a new life as the orphaned daughter of a First-Citizen Senator and heiress to a vast fortune.
She vows to claw her way into power to sit among the worlds’ elite. Then, with her own hands, she will reap bloody vengeance on them all.
But to beat them, she must play their game. And she must play it better than them all.
BLACK MILK
Prometheus has the chance to bring his wife back from the dead, but doing so will mean the destruction of Earth.
Spanning time, planets and dimensions, Black Milk draws to a climactic point in a post-apocalyptic future, where humanity, stranded with no planet to call home, fights to survive against a post-human digital entity that pursues them through the depths of space.
Five lives separated by aeons are inextricably linked by Prometheus’s actions:
Ystil.3 is an AI unit sent back in time from the distant future to investigate Prometheus’s discovery...
The mysterious Lydia has devoted her life to finding a planet that the last remaining humans can call home…
Tom Jones (he’s a HUGE fan!) is an AI trapped inside a digital subspace, lost and desperate to find his way back to his beloved in real-time…
Dr Norma Stanwyck is a neuroscientist from 24th Century Earth whose personal choices ripple throughout time...
Prometheus must learn the necessity of death or the entire universe will be swallowed by his grief.
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My late big brother bought me a copy of "I, Robot" when I was 15. He died a year later. That book blee my mind open, and it was the first in me becoming a hardcore scifi fan.
Assimov is the writer I read the most. I've even read a lot of his non-fiction
He is my favourite Golden Age author. Great interviews too, with many famous quotes and a splendid sense of humour. Two of his more famous quotes:
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always 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.”
― Isaac Asimov
“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.”
― Isaac Asimov
I once sat next to Asimov and Hal Clement at a sci-fi convention in DC, in the seventies. We were watching a silly movie about a boy and his dog that Harlin Ellison was reviewing. Had much respect for Asimov and Clement; Ellison not so much.
That's pretty wild. I wonder if Asimov was a fan of ol' Blood and Vic (or Fuzzy Butt and Al, as some might prefer).
Amazing!!!🤩
I'm jealous. he was my favourite writer growing up but I never travelled to the east coast to conventions and he was notoriously travel averse. I did see Decamp 3 times at conventions in Calgary. He was amazingly generous with fans spending hours in the con suite answering questions and telling stories. I even got my first fandom dad to come out from Victoria to one of them. Decamp was his favourite author.
I've read that Ellison is something of a blowhard. It's not just that he considers himself the best sci-fi writer ever, he considers most others to be shit. So I've read.
I had the pleasure of meeting Isaac Asimov when he came up to visit Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute while I was a student (1973-77; I don't remember the exact year). He was there as part of a series of lectures by sci-fi authors (including Frederik Pohl and Harlan Ellison; not all together, that would've been awesome) sponsored by the Student Union. I was already a fan since high school, and had read the Foundation Trilogy. Asimov was engaging, told a string of fun stories, and answered audience questions, and was a hit that night.
I can't remember whose interview it was, but he was a friend of Asimov's , also a SF writer... He said that many authors hava a good sense of humor, but Isaak was by far funniest of them all. You could never tell it from his interviews and writings but he was hilarious IRL...
Always loved Asimov. I remember growing up in the 70s and 80s and reading his Foundation and Robot novels was considered an accomplishment, a turning point in my reading career. His short story collections are among the best. I've also read his companion book to the Bible which explains well what is going on in those stories.
While Asimov is listed among the Big 3 "grand masters" of science fiction, I think of them as being 4, with Fred Pohl as the 4th. Pohl and Asimov knew each other when they were kids growing up in New York. They were founding members of the New York sci-fi club "The Futurians." (Pohl's autobiography, The Way the Future Was, is an excellent book.)
My parents subscribed to FSF from the first issue until their deaths. I loved Asimov's science articles, and still recommend them, as they are understandable by any twelve year old who takes the trouble. My favorite story of his was "The Up-toDate Sorcerer", an alternative solution to the plot problem in the early Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, "The Sorcerer". I think I was about ten at the time. In 1971, Harvard G&S hired me to direct the operetta, and, with the Good Doctor's permission, I staged it with his ending.
Isaac Asimov a american author.And is one of "three to begest"to thrillimes scientist together with Robert A.Heinkin and Arthur C . Clarke.😍🌏🔥Famous Author
Thank you for this video. 10/10
I have never read foundation but all of his robot short stories.
Your little author bio videos are well done and enjoyable. I've been an Asimov fan since I read one of his stories in Boy's Life in the mid 60s.
Would be cool if "Second foundation" was made into a series or trilogy.
Outerspace itself along with any area absent of matter is science fiction
Asimov was weak on character and inter-personal developments but boy his vistas and sheer scale of story telling fully compensated. Been a fan since 1970’s and am very happy with the way the foundation series has turned out on Apple+, can’t wait for season 2.
The author of my childhood. RIP.
When I read the "Lucky Star" novels (a very *long* time ago), they were published under his own name, and I remember some of them having a forward/apology for the inaccuracies due to authorship preceding actual surveys confirming planetary conditions.
I couldn't agree more with Asimov's sentiment about SF not being a genre. Whenever I am confronted with SF labelled as a genre, I've always pushed back that its a "setting".
I've never read Isaac Asimov's work, but if Wikipedia's anything to go by, Asimov's writing style's my type.
Asimov's stories published in "Astounding" were filmed as "Star Wars".
Aw, you missed the best part! He was also a huge fan of Gilbert and Sullivan; so much so that he published an annotated complete libretto of the G&S operettas. The former head of Amore Opera in NYC, Nathan Hull, was a good friend of his because Asimov was the president of the New York G&S Society and Nathan was an active member then.
I read the "Lucky Star" series and it is an unknown branch to his "Robots" series as both positronic robots and Spacers do make appearances in some of the books, though the series really isn't about them.
The sense that I got was that the "Lucky Star" series takes place after the Spacer worlds gain their independence from Earth but before Earth is defeated by the Spacer worlds and the bulk of humanity is restricted to the home solar system. Earth doesn't seem to have the underground cities from "The Caves of Steel" and Earth's military is eager to confront the Spacers with no indication of previous defeat. The Spacers themselves don't seem to have a neurosis about Earthmen diseases and are willing to invite 'superior' Earthmen to immigrate and join them.
Well, Positronic robots do make appearances in many Asimov stories not set in the Foundation Universe.
Nice.
I read literally 3 dozen plus Asimov books before I ever read His fiction. 🙃
I’ve read the whole foundation series and while the overall concept is really interesting the implementation is very much of its time. The characters are wafer thin and the characterisation of women through the series is shocking in the modern age. I can’t critique too harshly as they were written so long ago.
Ultimately disappointing bit conceptually interesting.
08-02-23
Sifi writter's have it publised in SIFI..so if it becomes fact in the science mommunity any time in the furture,they can prove,they said it first,and have all rights to all facts.