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The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov

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Author 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
10483 words, approx. 34.9 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 A...
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Biography of Isaac Asimov
5451 words, approx. 18.2 pages
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 oth...
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Biography of Isaac Asimov
2361 words, approx. 7.9 pages
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 Petrovichi,...


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The Caves of Steel Information
1,836 words, approx. 6 pages
The Caves of Steel is a novel by Isaac Asimov. It is essentially a detective story, and illustrates an idea Asimov advocated, that science fiction is a flavor that can be applied to any literary genre, rather than a limited genre itself. The book was...


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The Economist (US)
Caves of steel; Mining technology.(Modern mining technology)
11/23/2002: 1,024 words, approx. 3 pages
Mines are getting smarter ALEXIS ZORBAS, the title character of Nikos Kazantzakis's novel "Zorba the Greek", is a workman filled with love of life, but uneducated about mining. His efforts as foreman of the narrator's lignite mine end ignominiously, even though his instinctive...
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Science Weekly
Caves.
10/16/1997: 4,824 words, approx. 16 pages
Caves are deep mysterious holes under the ground. Some are huge in size. The insides of caves are damp, dark caverns where sunlight never enters. It is said that the inside of a cave is so dark, you can almost "hear" the darkness....
 


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The Caves of Steel
1,711 words, approx. 6 pages
Summarizes Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov. Details the adventures of main character Elijah Baley. Describes the mystery in which he finds himself involved.


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