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Isaac Asimov born Isaak Yudovich Ozimov, Russian c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) was an American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. Asimov was one of the most prolific writers of all time, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards. His works have been published in all ten major categories of the Dewey Decimal System (although his only work in the 100s—which covers philosophy and psychology—was a foreword for The Humanist Way).
Asimov is widely considered a master of hard science fiction and, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke, he was considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers during his lifetime. Asimov's most famous work is the Foundation Series; his other major series are the Galactic Empire series and the Robot series. The Galactic Empire novels are explicitly set in earlier history of the same fictional universe as the Foundation Series. Later, beginning with Foundation's Edge, he linked this distant future to the Robot and Spacer stories, creating a unified "future history" for his stories much like those pioneered by Robert A. Heinlein and previously produced by Cordwainer Smith and Poul Anderson. He wrote many short stories, among them "Nightfall", which in 1964 was voted by the Science Fiction Writers of America the best short science fiction story of all time. Asimov wrote the Lucky Starr series of juvenile science-fiction novels using the pen name Paul French.
The prolific Asimov also wrote mysteries and fantasy, as well as much non-fiction. Most of his popular science books explain scientific concepts in a historical way, going as far back as possible to a time when the science in question was at its simplest stage. He often provides nationalities, birth dates, and death dates for the scientists he mentions, as well as etymologies and pronunciation guides for technical terms. Examples include Guide to Science, the three volume set Understanding Physics, Asimov's Chronology of Science and Discovery, as well as works on astronomy, mathematics, the Bible, William Shakespeare's writing and chemistry.
Asimov was a long-time member and Vice President of Mensa International, albeit reluctantly; he described some members of that organization as "brain-proud and aggressive about their IQs." He took more joy in being president of the American Humanist Association. The asteroid 5020 Asimov, a crater on the planet Mars, a Brooklyn, New York elementary school, and one Isaac Asimov literary award are named in his honor.
Asimov was born sometime between October 4, 1919 and January 2, 1920 in Petrovichi in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (near the modern border with Belarus) to Anna Rachel Berman Asimov and Judah Asimov, a family of Jewish millers. While his exact date of birth is uncertain, Asimov himself celebrated it on January 2.
The family name derives from ... , a Russian word for winter grains in which his great-grandfather dealt, to which a patronymic suffix was added. His name in Russian was originally Isaak Ozimov; but he was later known in Russia as Ayz'ek Azimov, a Russian Cyrillic adaptation of the American English pronunciation.
Asimov had two younger siblings; a sister, Marcia (born Manya, June 17, 1922-April 2, 2011), and a brother, Stanley (July 25, 1929-August 16, 1995), who was vice-president of New York Newsday.
His family emigrated to the United States when he was three years old. Since his parents always spoke Yiddish and English with him, he never learned Russian.
Asimov began reading science fiction pulp magazines at a young age. His father, as a matter of principle, forbade reading the pulps, as he considered them to be trash, but Asimov persuaded him that the science fiction magazines had "Science" in the title, so they were educational. Around the age of eleven, he began to write his own stories, and by age nineteen—after he discovered science fiction fandom—he was selling stories to the science fiction magazines. John W. Campbell, then editor of Astounding Science Fiction, had a strong formative influence on Asimov and eventually became a personal friend.
Asimov attended New York City public schools, including Boys High School, in Brooklyn, New York. Graduating at 15, he went on to Seth Low Junior College, a branch of Columbia University in Brooklyn designed to admit larger numbers of Jewish and Italian-American students at Columbia College, then the institution's primary undergraduate school for men. Originally a zoology major, Asimov changed his subject to chemistry after his first semester as he disapproved of "dissecting an alley cat". After Seth Low Junior College closed in 1938, Asimov finished his BS degree at University Extension (later the Columbia University School of General Studies) in 1939. When he failed to secure admission to medical school, he applied to the graduate program in chemistry at Columbia; initially rejected and then only accepted on a probationary basis, Asimov completed his MA in chemistry in 1941 and earned a PhD in biochemistry in 1948. In between, he spent three years during World War II working as a civilian at the Philadelphia Navy Yard's Naval Air Experimental Station. After the war ended, he was drafted into the U.S. Army, serving for almost nine months before receiving an honorable discharge. In the course of his brief military career, he rose to the rank of corporal on the basis of his typing skills, and narrowly avoided participating in the 1946 atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll.
Asimov married Gertrude Blugerman (1917, Canada–1990, Boston) on July 26, 1942. They had two children, David (b. 1951) and Robyn Joan (b. 1955). In 1970 they separated and Asimov moved back to New York, this time to Manhattan, where he lived for the rest of his life. He immediately began seeing Janet O. Jeppson, and married her two weeks after his divorce from Gertrude in 1973.
Asimov was a claustrophile: he enjoyed small, enclosed spaces. In the third volume of his autobiography, he recalls a childhood desire to own a magazine stand in a New York City Subway station, within which he could enclose himself and listen to the rumble of passing trains while reading.
Asimov was afraid of flying, only doing so twice in his entire life (once in the course of his work at the Naval Air Experimental Station, and once returning home from the army base in Oahu in 1946) He seldom traveled great distances, partly because his aversion to flying complicated the logistics of long-distance travel. This phobia influenced several of his fiction works, such as the Wendell Urth mystery stories and the Robot novels featuring Elijah Baley. In his later years, he found he enjoyed traveling on cruise ships, and on several occasions he became part of the cruises' "entertainment", giving science-themed talks on ships such as the RMS Queen Elizabeth 2.
Asimov was an able public speaker and was a frequent fixture at science fiction conventions, where he was friendly and approachable. He patiently answered tens of thousands of questions and other mail with postcards, and was pleased to give autographs. He was of medium height, stocky, with mutton chop whiskers and a distinct New York accent. His physical dexterity was very poor. He never learned to swim or ride a bicycle; however, he did learn to drive a car after he moved to Boston. In his humor book Asimov Laughs Again, he describes Boston driving as "anarchy on wheels".
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Foundation (Chronological Order) series
Isaac Asimov - Prelude To Foundation (read by Scott Brick)
Isaac Asimov - Forward The Foundation (read by Larry McKeever)
Isaac Asimov - Foundation (read by Scott Brick)
Isaac Asimov - Foundation And Empire (read by Scott Brick)
Isaac Asimov - Second Foundation (read by Scott Brick)
Isaac Asimov - Foundation's Edge (read by Scott Brick)
Isaac Asimov - Foundation And Earth (read by Larry McKeever)
Robot series
Isaac Asimov - I, Robot (read by Scott Brick)
Isaac Asimov - The Complete Robot (read by Larry McKeever)
Isaac Asimov - Robot Dreams (read by George Guidall)
Isaac Asimov - Robot Visions (read by Richard Hauenstein)
Isaac Asimov - The Positronic Man (read by Kristofer Batho)
Isaac Asimov - The Caves Of Steel (read by William Dufris)
Isaac Asimov - The Naked Sun (read by William Dufris)
Isaac Asimov - The Robots Of Dawn (read by William Dufris)
Isaac Asimov - Robots And Empire (read by Pam Ward)
Galactic Empire series
Isaac Asimov - The Stars, Like Dust (read by Stephen Thorne)
Isaac Asimov - The Currents Of Space (read by Kevin T. Collins)
Isaac Asimov - Pebble In The Sky (read by Marc Overton)
Other
Isaac Asimov - Nine Tomorrows (read by Jack Fox)
Isaac Asimov - Nightfall And Other Stories (read by Fred Major)
Isaac Asimov - The Winds Of Change And Other Stories (read by Peter Johnson)
Isaac Asimov - The End Of Eternity (read by Paul Boehmer)
Isaac Asimov - The Gods Themselves (read by Scott Brick)
Isaac Asimov - Nemesis (read by Fred Major)
Isaac Asimov - Nightfall (read by Ray Foushee)
Isaac Asimov - The Ugly Little Boy (read by Richard Davidson)
Isaac Asimov - Opus 200 (read by Paul Freman)
Isaac Asimov - Fantastic Voyage (read by Roy Avers)
Isaac Asimov - Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain (read by Roy Avers)
Isaac Asimov - Azazel (read by John C. Reed)
Isaac Asimov - Murder At The ABA (read by Daniel Grace)
Isaac Asimov - Our Angry Earth (read by Randy Atcher)
Isaac Asimov - The Greeks: A Great Adventure (read by Paul Baker)
Isaac Asimov - The Realm Of Numbers (read by Maggie Albright)
Isaac Asimov - Gold (read by Robert J. Sawyer)
Isaac Asimov - Asimov's Guide To The Bible (read by Lue Harpenel)
Isaac Asimov - The Best Of Isaac Asimov (read by Dan Lazar)
Isaac Asimov - The Alternate Asimovs (read by Ray Foushee)
Isaac Asimov - Asimov's Mysteries (read by Dan Lazar)
Isaac Asimov - Isaac Asimov's Stories From The Science Fiction Magazine (read by Various)
Isaac Asimov - The Complete Stories Vol. 2 (read by Various)
Isaac Asimov - Science Fiction Favorites (read by Isaac Asimov)
Isaac Asimov - Isaac Asimov Stories (read by Various)
Isaac Asimov - The Mammoth Book Of Fantastic Science Fiction (read John Thompson and Diana Krell)
Isaac Asimov - The Return Of The Black Widowers (read by Richard Hauenstein)
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Foundation series
http://rapidgator.net/file/c93144856cda47874ce908b4e478d2ff/Prelude_To_Foundation.part1.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/af11e0e551b91e11352dc2e7f3e98d2d/Prelude_To_Foundation.part2.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/b47cf255f60e394a0585dee4b9fd5c0b/Forward_The_Foundation.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/134b960ec9a6897ddf89d2a548c0365a/Foundation.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/8a0b289d17fe34d6e883db1f06371dd0/Foundation_And_Empire.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/dd55aad6e00ea88672a0c76e04877e57/Second_Foundation.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/dee8ee8677bb580ced04e57b43c34f01/Foundations_Edge.part1.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1ff431293cc77ef4e8baddedeb2bf619/Foundations_Edge.part2.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/a1c5a500dd6a45115665b16572cffb79/Foundation_And_Earth.rar.html
Robot series
http://rapidgator.net/file/6e31a6a10f9bd8f3a62204c122434347/I_Robot.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/2d7da8ab8af99a3af566e76a78ebe9ab/The_Complete_Robot.part1.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/8bc9aaa3883ea8f6707b8312470c53c4/The_Complete_Robot.part2.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/888755fe7d2a3a30173ef6935640beda/Robot_Dreams.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/791fa42ab7abdd2600be30fd1cc1824f/Robot_Visions.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/f11540ce3f0e878c64ee6e66f04c3fe0/The_Positronic_Man.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/ba960e17521de8d10120202230869adb/The_Caves_Of_Steel.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/fe0cc39bee0f791716324b02e087f04b/The_Naked_Sun.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/3a0f9fdee80351ae96be708d394e4fed/The_Robots_Of_Dawn.part1.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/43ec928a855243bebe68bbb04b073875/The_Robots_Of_Dawn.part2.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/db12109419474adfcd9837979e74ba9c/Robots_And_Empire.rar.html
Galactic Empire series
http://rapidgator.net/file/02c4097d47676a5cacdebdc8046d5f6d/The_Stars_Like_Dust.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/15feb072f1bb9c509faf904fce9ff584/The_Currents_Of_Space.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/0e077e2fc7fd6b9b08a3096f16292d8a/Pebble_In_The_Sky.rar.html
Other
http://rapidgator.net/file/a5bb10768741d18dd2f442b91184b37c/Nine_Tomorrows.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/37862e97ab4e008b1ce3fa14ab795fac/Nightfall_And_Other_Stories.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/e12fb3a8452739429b4177690cc64f4c/The_Winds_Of_Change_And_Other_Stories.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/42549f83396f78c1e24eddc57967c9d4/The_End_Of_Eternity.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/f28245c3bcf913b0c538ff29d21bb391/The_Gods_Themselves.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/059d57bebaf4143574a29053e728621b/Nemesis.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/abca8bc1d8cf4e0a5f9e0f8fcd51e1b9/Nightfall.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/9082ae2355f7a8fc767eae87c4b3a519/The_Ugly_Little_Boy.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/28bff9a75e43913dc49c5afebae800ce/Opus_200.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/ab25d39eba87b302abbd665d9c18e799/Fantastic_Voyage.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/b74b981ab9b99d54b99a2cc94439b7a3/Fantastic_Voyage_II.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/99ed0d43678d8b079b62b7ad9bef39f4/Azazel.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/313ffcb4fd9f5d200539b2f3adf2cbc6/Murder_At_The_ABA.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/5c0882b8b06dd11bce2898729769098a/Our_Angry_Earth.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/54c3cf7cadd9c67485c43a762eacf76c/The_Greeks.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/bda2c1f730ef4cfa275af89313e6c988/The_Realm_Of_Numbers.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/4fdc2da22345537be4701b344074158f/Gold.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/01932b95041200d5078d98e511fcab51/Asimovs_Guide_To_The_Bible.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/ba6c158db6cd43953b1f0cb3aa4612d9/The_Best_Of_Isaac_Asimov.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/329778a2f4c6f27fca53c0d66574cb6e/The_Alternate_Asimovs.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1ca2c0981d938c2c2ed46b2882b49380/Asimovs_Mysteries.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/21b2fb5c623b9fff1181d027b2c16249/Isaac_Asimovs_Stories_From_The_Science_Fiction_Magazine.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/d3098394b07ab24099ecc49d2dc05fbb/The_Complete_Stories_Vol_2.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/62c870fd3784385da6224dd86b884a13/Science_Fiction_Favorites.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/bbb8000b0d1b14c46e021954f1f5257c/Isaac_Asimov_Stories.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/dacdd9cd41657e7cbaa171a44d5d192f/The_Mammoth_Book_Of_Fantastic_Science_Fiction.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/255c9e396bc50568060ee61e15fac085/The_Return_Of_The_Black_Widowers.rar.html |
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