Historical Works Of Isaac Asimov a Historiographical Analysis   I Historian     Stephen But you are telling me Susan that the Society for Humanity is right and that Mankind has lost its own say in its future  Susan  It never had any really It was always at the mercy of economic and sociological forces it did not understand  at the whims of climate and the fortunes of war Now the Machines understand them and no one can stop them as they are dealing with the Society  having as they do the greatest of weapons at their disposal the absolute control of our economy  Stephen How horrible                 The author of this dialogue is Isaac Asimov Similar references to the history of humanity are widely used in his literature works The author is a wellknown writer of future societies not only in fiction but also as treatises of the march of humanity into the future Neither in his stories nor in the historical essays of Asimov can one easily find references to great changes in a society through the works of great men great ideas or greatness of an arbitrary institution This paper will investigate the historiographical method and mode of historical writing of Isaac Asimov      The Writer  Seldom thought of as a scientist less even as an essayist and almost never as a historian The famous author of some of the bestknown science fiction literature Hailed as a Grand Master in  by the Science Fiction and Fantasy writers of America Inc Isaac Asimov has produced over  books on a large variety of subjects Among his portrayals as a writer are as listed by one of his publishers Houghton Mifflin Company novelist humorist futurist current world record holder in literary output etc Yet more importantly Asimov was a PhD holder in the field of chemistry a professor in Boston University More relevant still for the purpose of the present work is the historian persona that Asimov assumed numerous times                Asimov was born in January   in Petrovichi Russia to a Jewish family that emigrated to the United States He grew up in Brooklyn and graduated from Columbia University in  obtaining his PhD in the same establishment in  He joined the faculty of Boston University thereafter and remained associated to BU however not in a teaching capacity from  on He died in  his death was later revealed to have been as a result of contracted HIV from a bypass surgery he received in                Despite the fact that there are various different elements to his character Asimov was a writer first and foremost His first publications were in the genre of science fiction first of which was published in an issue of Amazing Stories magazine in March  Asimov claims that writing had been     merely an amusement and that he had hoped for a few dollars to help pay his college tuition Furthermore for the introduction of his one hundredth work he professes that he had never planned anything at all in his writing career and that his commercial success was an incredulous relief As for his historical works he claims that they were primarily intended for nonhistorians as his science books were primarily intended for nonscientists               He is not only an amateur that has deep interests in history but also a sciencefiction novelist whose literature work is influenced by his knowledge of history Asimovs major works the Foundation and Robot series to name a few depict the future not through the wars and technological accomplishments of humanity but they portray the human societies of the future with a dominant preconception of formation and function of the past societies To name a specific case he declares that the fictitious Galactic Empire that is in power in the Foundation Series were written with certain periods of the Roman history Justinian and Belisarus of the sixth century and a little bit Tiberius and Sejanus of the first century to be exact in mind      The Works  Isaac Asimov is interested in history not only out of personal curiosity but he can also justify this curiosity in terms of his profession Asimov states  we surely cannot grasp the significance of population energy technology and other subjects today without seeing them in the context of the past Therefore as a professional author of science fiction and a speculator of future societies Asimov believes that  without knowing where we came from we cannot easily detect where we are going              His outlook of history is predeterministic and conceptualized materialistically and for the most part simplistically In dealing with the rise and fall of political unities he ofte