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Biography

Name: Isaac Asimov
Variant Name: Paul French
Birth Date: January 2, 1920
Death Date: April 6, 1992
Place of Birth: Petrovichi, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Place of Death: New York, New York, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer

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Biography of Isaac Asimov
10,483 words, approx. 35 pages
While Isaac Asimov officially celebrated his birthday as 2 January 1920, his birth date is uncertain. Records were not well kept in the U.S.S.R. in the period between World War I and World War II, particularly if the records concerned Jews. By the time...
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Biography of Isaac Asimov
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By the time of his death in 1992, Isaac Asimov was widely regarded as one of the most productive and versatile writers of all time. Asimov was best-known for his science-fiction novels and popularized accounts of science, but he worked in a number of...
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Biography of Isaac Asimov
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The author of nearly five hundred books, Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) is esteemed as one of the finest writers of science fiction and scientific fact in the twentieth century. Asimov was born on January 2, 1920, to middle-class Jewish parents in...


Quotations
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Isaac Asimov Quotes
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Isaac Asimov (c. 1920-01-02 – 1992-04-06 ) was a Russian-born American author and biochemist. Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 The Foundation series 1.2 Three Laws of Robotics 1.3 The Roving Mind (1983) 2 Unsourced 2.1 Beliefs and Religion 2.2 Death 2.3...


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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Asimov, Isaac Summary
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Isaac Asimov. American Science Fiction Writer 1920–1992 Isaac Asimov was arguably the single most important fiction author to treat the subject of computers. Also one of the preeminent science writers in America during his lifetime, he...
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Asimov, Isaac Summary
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Author of more than 500 books on a multitude of subjects, Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) was born in Petrovichi, Russia on January 2. He emigrated to the United States in 1923, sold his first science fiction story at the age of eighteen, and went on...
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Asimov, Isaac (1920-1992) Summary
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Scientist and science fiction writer Isaac Asimov made his reputation in both fields with his prolific writings and his interest in the popularization of science. Asimov published over three hundred books and a considerable number of short stories,...
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Isaac Asimov Information
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Isaac Asimov (January 2?, 1920?[1] – April 6, 1992), pronounced /ˈaɪzək ˈæzɪmɒv/, originally Исаак Озимов but now transcribed into Russian as Айзек Азимов [1], was a Russian-born American author and professor of...


News and Journals
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The Washington Post
Isaac Asimov
04/10/1992: 407 words, approx. 1 pages
ANYONE lucky enough to stumble on one of Isaac Asimov's Hugo Award anthologies in the 1960s or 1970s has a pretty good idea what it must have been like to talk to the irrepressible writer of science fiction - and of science fact, mystery,...
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Natural History
2005 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate
03/01/2005: 491 words, approx. 2 pages
2005 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate The Enigma of Alien Solar Systems Wednesday, March 30 7:30 p.m. LeFrak Theater $14 ($12 Members) Before planets around stars other than our Sun were first discovered nearly a decade ago, many scientists expected alien solar systems to...
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AP News
Asteroid named for `Star Trek' actor
10/3/2007: 369 words, approx. 1 pages
A piece of outer space named for George Takei is in kind of a rough neighborhood for somebody who steers a starship: an asteroid belt.An asteroid between Mars and Jupiter has been renamed 7307 Takei in honor of the actor, best known for his role...
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Today in history - April 6
4/6/2007: 572 words, approx. 2 pages
Today is Good Friday, April 6, the 96th day of 2007. There are 269 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On April 6, 1909, explorers Robert E. Peary and Matthew A. Henson became the first men to reach the North Pole. (The claim, disputed...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Donald Watt
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Asimov is a science fiction novelist with no pretensions toward innovative techniques, hidden allusions, or occult symbolism. He is, as he professes to be, a popular writer whose work is immediately accessible to a wide audience. It is worth asking, then, what it is about Asimov's writing that accounts for his popularity…. My argument is that Asimov's characters are at the center of appeal in his major fiction because they enrich and enliven the science fiction worlds he creates. (p. 13...
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Critical Essay by Hazel Pierce
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Asimov has balanced the demands of [two genres, mystery and science fiction] by building on their common ground. Both types impose the need for logical, analytical method and for subtle, acute reasoning—applied in the one instance to untangling a puzzle in immediate time and place, the other in speculative time and place. Both exercise the special knowledge of the author. Detective fiction demands a knowledge of police procedures and an understanding of the deductive process; science fiction, of the ...
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Critical Essay by James Gunn
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The Foundation Trilogy is a basic work upon which a vast structure of stories has been built. Its assumptions provided a solid footing for a whole city of fictional constructions. The way in which it was created, then, and the way in which it came to prominence may be useful examples of the process by which science fiction was shaped in the magazines. (pp. 27-8) How to explain the continuing popularity of the Trilogy? Why has the Foundation become a foundation? The student of science fiction who can underst...
 
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A Tale of Earth's Fight to Overcome Decadence and Continue Progress
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Discusses the "American Deam" and it's applications to several Isaac Asimov books including "I Robot," "The Caves of Steel, "The Naked Sun," and "The Robots of Dawn:"

Asimov shows the American Dream of expansion and progress by using theme and his specific writing style.  Asimov shows that in the future humanity can never reach a peak because if society stops progressing forward it can only fall into oblivion. Like early Americans, the men of Earth are no



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