He often provides nationalities, birth dates, and death dates for the scientists he mentions, as well as etymologies and pronunciation guides for technical terms. 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. Īsimov also wrote mysteries and fantasy, as well as much nonfiction. Asimov wrote the Lucky Starr series of juvenile science-fiction novels using the pen name Paul French. He wrote hundreds of short stories, including the social science fiction novelette " Nightfall", which in 1964 was voted by the Science Fiction Writers of America the best short science fiction story of all time. Heinlein and previously produced by Cordwainer Smith and Poul Anderson. 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. The Galactic Empire novels are explicitly set in earlier history of the same fictional universe as the Foundation series. Asimov's most famous work is the Foundation Series his other major series are the Galactic Empire series and the Robot series. Clarke, he was considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers during his lifetime. Īsimov wrote hard science fiction and, along with Robert A. His books have been published in 9 of the 10 major categories of the Dewey Decimal Classification. Asimov was a prolific writer, and wrote or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards. He was known for his works of science fiction and popular science.
Janu – April 6, 1992) was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. Isaac Asimov ( / ˈ æ z ɪ m ɒ v / born Isaak Ozimov c.
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