Isaac Asimov, Science Fiction Options

[ItsMeHelena]

About Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov was the most famous, most honored, most widely read, and most beloved science fiction author of all time. In his five decades as an author, he wrote more than four hundred books, won every award his readers and colleagues could contrive to give him, and provided pleasure and insight to millions.

Isaac Asimov was born in Russia in 1920 and grew up in the USA. His fantastic career as a science fiction writer began in 1939 with the appearence of a short story 'Marooned Off Vesta', in Amazing Stories. He won the Hugo Award four times and the Nebula Award once. With nearly five hundred books to his name and several hundred articles, Asimov's output was prolific by any standards. He died in 1992 at the age of 72.

Selected Bibliography:

Foundation Series:
Prelude to Foundation (1988) - This is the first Foundation novel.
Foundation's Fear (1997) - Second Foundation trilogy by Gregory Benford.
Forward the Foundation (1993) - The second Foundation novel (although it is the latest written).
Foundation and Chaos (1998) - Second Foundation trilogy by Greg Bear.
Foundation's Triumph (1999) - Second Foundation trilogy by David Brin.
Foundation (1951) - The third Foundation novel.
Foundation and Empire (1952) - The fourth Foundation novel, made up of two stories, originally published in 1945.
Second Foundation (1953) - The fifth Foundation novel, made up of two stories, originally published in 1948 and 1949.
Foundation's Edge (1982) - The sixth Foundation novel.
Foundation and Earth (1986) - The seventh Foundation novel.

Robot Series:
I, Robot (1950)
The Rest of the Robots (1964)
Eight Stories from the Rest of the Robots (1966)
The Complete Robot (1982)
The Robot Collection (omnibus) (1983)
Robot Dreams (1986)
The Robot Novels (omnibus) (1988)
Robot Visions (1990)

Other Novels:
The 1,000 Year Plan (1955)
The End of Eternity (1955)
A Whiff of Death (1958)
The Double Planet (1960)
Fantastic Voyage (1966)
The Gods Themselves (1972)
The Heavenly Host (1975)
Murder at the ABA (1976)
Good Taste (1976)
Destination Brain: Fantastic Voyage II (1987)
Nemesis (1989)
Nightfall (1990)
Child of Time (1991)
The Positronic Man (1992)
The Ugly Little Boy (1992)
History of I-Botics: An Illustrated Novel (1997)



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1988 - Prelude to Foundation: This is the first Foundation novel.

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This novel describes the events that occurred in the centuries before the opening events in Asimov's first "Foundation" books.

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Forward the Foundation (1993) - The second Foundation novel

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The days of the Empire are numbered. On the Imperial world of Trantor, Cleon II rules over a multitude of worlds slowly descending into anarchy. Two individuals' destinies intertwine in the fight against chaos - Hari Seldon, and Eto Demerzel, a robot and the real power behind Cleon's throne.

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1951 - Foundation: The third Foundation novel.

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The first volume of Asimov's saga, which won the Hugo Award for Best All-Time Novel Series. The ostensible task of Foundation, a group of savants established by Seldon on the remote planet Terminus, is to compile the "Encyclopedia Galactica", a complete account of human knowledge.

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1952 - Foundation and Empire: The fourth Foundation novel

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The second volume in the "Foundation" saga. Catastrophic events unfold as predicted by Hari Seldon. The First Galactic Empire is crumbling at its centre; conflict rages at its periphery, where the Traders of the Foundation based on Terminus have become a mighty power.

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1953 - Second Foundation: The fifth Foundation novel

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The third volume in the "Foundation" saga. Psychohistorian Hari Seldon was the only man in history to have understood the shifting patterns of the inhabited cosmos. He foresaw that the Foundation he set up on the planet Terminus would be vulnerable, as it was to be attacked by the Mule.

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1982 - Foundation's Edge: The sixth Foundation novel

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It is 498 years since the two Foundations came into existence - half-way through the Interregnum planned by Hari Seldon. The Second Foundation has once more successfully concealed its existence so that the laws of psychohistory can operate to usher in a new Empire ruled by the mental sciences.

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Foundation and Earth (1986) - The seventh Foundation novel.

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Members of the First Foundation establish contact with the telepathic robots of the planet Gaia and with their aid go on to search for humanity's long-lost ancestral planet, Earth. This is the sixth volume in the "Foundation" selection of books.

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Two of our most famous sci-fi authors, Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg got together to produce a great "what if" story exploring how technology of a make-believe 21st-century lab could go far enough to bring right back a child from 40,000 years ago to live with a caregiver in a bubble.

Miss Fellowes, who had been hired under very strict regulations to watch the prehistoric boy, had a kind of a sharp tongue and sometimes acted like a demented soccer mom, especially when nosey scientists and the media eagerly flocked over to gawk at the kid and make a big fuss over him. But she had fallen into love with the strange-looking Neandertal child and thus would never want to part with him.

The little boy named "Timmie" had turned out to be such a charming little angel in spite of his "unsightly" prehistoric appearance. And he had also ended up facing a very uncertain fate, especially with a scientist who brought him over, yet didn't intend to keep him forever, an overzealous child advocate who screamed bloody "child abuse", and a worried nurse who feared that he wouldn't survive in a prehistoric environment after a few years of learning to read and eat with a fork.

In addition to Timmie's heartwarming adventure in the modern times, we also get glimpses of the prehistoric tribe that he had left behind, which was now facing its own dangers forty thousand years back.

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Because of its six suns, the planet Kalgash is bathed in perpetual sunlight. However, once every 2,049 years all six suns are eclipsed, plunging the planet into total darkness and causing widespread madness that results in the civilization's complete destruction, thus allowing the cycle to begin again.

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[ItsMeHelena]

FANTASTIC VOYAGE BOOK 1:

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Four men and a woman are reduced to a microscopic fraction of their original size, sent in a miniaturized atomic sub through a dying man's carotid artery to destroy a blood clot in his brain. If they fail, the entire world will be doomed.

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FANTASTIC VOYAGE BOOK 2:

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Twenty-one years ago when the movie Fantastic Voyage was released, Asimov was hired to do the novelization. The book was successful but, to Asimov, not satisfying, for "I never felt it to be entirely mine." Now he has rewritten it his way, and it's good.
The story concerns Albert Jonas Morrison, a 21st century neurophysicist, and otherwise an ordinary and unheroic man, who is kidnapped and taken to the Soviet Union. A major Soviet scientist, Pyotr Shapirov, is in an irreversible coma, and Morrison's special expertise could be of value. The Soviets believe that Morrison may be able to apply his controversial theories to retrieve vagrant thoughts that still may be floating in Shapirov's damaged brain and so provide clues to important work in which Shapirov was engaged.
Morrison goes cold with fear because the plan calls for him to be miniaturizedalong with four Soviet scientiststo sub-molecular size, introducing them into Shapirov's body and, ultimately, into his brain.
The snappish relationships between the scientists is wryly depicted, and the mission itself makes fascinating reading as both an action/adventure and an intellectually stimulating premise.

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Nemesis

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When Eugenia Insigna of the Settlement Rotor, an independent space station, discovers an unknown red dwarf star two light years from Earth, she names it Nemesis. Led by Dr. Janus Pitt, Rotor and its population travel to the star to build a new, morally pure society. Insigna's daughter Marlene, who can read body language like a telepath, learns that Nemesis is moving dangerously close to Earth's solar system.
After trying to communicate her knowledge, Marlene discovers that a conspiracy is suppressing it.

Told alternately from two points of view, Marlene's and (in a different time frame) her father's, the book is repetitive, talky and unengaging. Asimov is at his best when his characters discuss science and their schemes for saving Earth's people from destruction by Nemesis.

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The Gods Themselves

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In the year 2100, mankind on Earth, settlers in a lunar colony and aliens from the para-universe, a strange universe parallel in time to our own, are faced with a race against time to prevent total destruction of the Earth. The invention of the Inter-Universe Electron Pump has threatened the rate of hydrogen fusion in the sun, leading, inevitably, to the possibility of a vast explosion -- and the vaporization of the Earth exactly eight minutes later . . .

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Azazel

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This is a collection of funny short stories by the author, all about the two-centimeter high demon Azazel (not its real name, but the real name cannot be pronounced easily).
Azazel rides about in the pocket of a friend (descended from magicians and able to summon a demon), and the friend narrates the adventures. The problem is that Azazel wants to be helpful, but the wishes people have in mind are not always translated well in their directions. It is like programming a computer - you must be very careful (garbage in means garbage out, or in this case bad or incomplete directions may have unexpected results).
Want to be attractive to women? Done! Whoops, you didn't mean that kind of woman? Afraid of bullies, and don't want anyone to lay a hand on you? Done! Whoops, you didn't mean everyone including your girlfriend?
You get the picture.
Remember King Midas.

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I, Robot

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In this collection, one of the great classics of science fiction, Asimov set out the principles of robot behavior that we know as the Three Laws of Robotics. Here are stories of robots gone mad, mind-reading robots, robots with a sense of humor, robot politicians, and robots who secretly run the world, all told with Asimov s trademark dramatic blend of science fact and science fiction.

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