Isaac Asimov | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-03-26

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00:02:39 1 Family name etymology
00:03:49 2 Biography
00:03:58 2.1 Early life
00:06:50 2.2 Education and career
00:11:12 2.3 Personal life
00:17:22 2.4 Illness and death
00:18:50 3 Writings
00:19:22 3.1 Overview
00:21:59 3.2 Science fiction
00:36:03 3.3 Popular science
00:39:34 3.3.1 Coined terms
00:41:25 3.4 Other writings
00:47:57 3.5 Awards and recognition
00:54:02 4 Writing style
00:54:38 4.1 Characteristics
01:00:49 4.2 Limitations
01:00:58 4.2.1 Sexuality
01:01:47 4.2.2 Alien life
01:03:32 4.2.3 Portrayal of women
01:05:34 5 Views
01:05:59 5.1 Religion
01:10:54 5.2 Politics
01:13:33 5.3 Social issues
01:14:56 5.4 Environment and population
01:17:13 5.5 Other authors
01:19:58 6 Influence
01:22:45 7 Television, music, and film appearances
01:24:26 8 Selected bibliography
01:26:27 8.1 Science fiction
01:26:36 8.1.1 "Greater Foundation" series
01:30:09 8.1.2 Lucky Starr series (as Paul French)
01:30:48 8.1.3 Norby Chronicles (with Janet Asimov)
01:31:39 8.1.4 Novels not part of a series
01:32:58 8.1.5 Short-story collections
01:36:13 8.2 Mysteries
01:36:21 8.2.1 Novels
01:36:40 8.2.2 Short-story collections
01:36:50 8.2.2.1 Black Widowers series
01:37:23 8.2.2.2 Other mysteries
01:37:53 8.3 Nonfiction
01:38:02 8.3.1 Popular science
01:49:05 8.3.2 Annotations
01:49:35 8.3.3 Guides
01:50:09 8.3.4 Autobiography
01:50:55 8.3.5 Other nonfiction



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Isaac Asimov (; c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) was an  American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. He was known for his works of science fiction and popular science. Asimov was a prolific writer who wrote or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards. His books have been published in 9 of the 10 major categories of the Dewey Decimal Classification.Asimov wrote hard science fiction. Along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke, Asimov 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 set in earlier history of the same fictional universe as the Foundation series. Later, with Foundation and Earth (1986), he linked this distant future to the Robot 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 also wrote hundreds of short stories, including the social science fiction novelette "Nightfall", which in 1964 was voted the best short science fiction story of all time by the Science Fiction Writers of America. Asimov wrote the Lucky Starr series of juvenile science-fiction novels using the pen name Paul French.Asimov also wrote mysteries and fantasy, as well as much nonfiction. Most of his popular science books explain concepts in a historical way, going as far back as possible to a time when the science in question was at its simplest stage. Examples include Guide to Science, the three-volume set Understanding Physics, and Asimov's Chronology of Science and Discovery.  He wrote on numerous other scientific and non-scientific topics, such as  chemistry, astronomy, mathematics, history, biblical exegesis, and literary criticism.
He was president of the American Humanist Association. The asteroid 5020 Asimov, a crater on the planet Mars, a Brooklyn elementary school, and a literary award are named in his honor.