Isaac Asimov

**Isaac Asimov** () kuwe ahli biokimia Amerika Serikat kelairan Rusia, sing uga dadi penulis sing sukses banget lan luar biasa produktif. Dheweke dadi kondang jalaran nggawe karya fiksi ilmiah lan buku sains kanggo wong awam. Karya Asimov sing paling kondang yakuwe Seri Dasar (*Foundation Series*), sing banjur digabungna karo rong seri liyane yakuwe Seri Kerajaan Galaksi (*Galactic Empire Series*) lan Seri Robot (*Robot Series*).

Dheweke uga akeh nulis kisah misteri (sing akeh dihimpun nang buku-buku *Black Widowers*) lan fantasi. Totale, Asimov nulis utawa nyunting lewih sekang 500 jilid lan sekitar 90.000 surat utawa kartu pos, lan karyanya ana nang jroningkabeh kategorigedhe Sistem Desimal Dewey kecuali Filsafat. Melalui konsensus umum, dheweke kuwe rajane *genre* fiksi ilmiah, lan bareng karo Robert A. Heinlein lan Arthur C. Clarke, dianggep dadi salah siji sekang "Tiga Besar" penulis fiksi ilmiah.

Asimov kuwe jane anggota lawase Mensa, senajan mandan bebeh (dheweke nggambarna mereka "senang bertempur secara intelektual"). Asteroid 5020 Asimov dijenengi kaya kuwe kanggo ngormati Asimov.

## Biografi

## Bibliografi pilihan
Asimov ngarepna nek dheweke teyeng nulis 500 buku ningen ora kelakon; dheweke "mung" ngasilna sekitar 463 buku. Nek kabeh judul, carta, lan koleksi sing disunting diitung, sekiye ana 509 karya nang bibiliografi lengkape.

### Fiksi ilmiah

#### Seri "Greater Foundation"
* *Robot series*:
** *The Caves of Steel* (1954), ISBN 0-553-29340-0
** *The Naked Sun* (1957), ISBN 0-553-29339-7
** *The Robots of Dawn* (1983), ISBN 0-553-29949-2
** *Robots and Empir]* (1985)
** *The Positronic Man* (1993)

* *Galactic Empire series*:
** *Pebble in the Sky* (1950)
** *The Stars, Like Dust* (1951)
** *The Currents of Space* (1952)

* *Foundation series*:
** *Foundation* (1951), ISBN 0-553-29335-4
** *Foundation and Empire* (1952), ISBN 0-553-29337-0
** *Second Foundation* (1953), ISBN 0-553-29336-2
** *Foundation's Edge* (1982), ISBN 0-553-29338-9
** *Foundation and Earth* (1986), ISBN 0-553-58757-9
** *Prelude to Foundation* (1988), ISBN 0-553-27839-8
** *Forward the Foundation* (1993), ISBN 0-385-24793-1 (*hardcover*), ISBN 0-553-40488-1 (*paperback*)

#### Novel-novel sing dudu bagiyan sekang seri apa bae
* *The End of Eternity* (1955)
* *The Gods Themselves* (1972)
* *Nemesis* (1989)
* *Nightfall* (1990)
* *The Ugly Little Boy* (1992)

#### Koleksi cerita pendek

* *[[I, Robot]]* (1950), ISBN 0-553-29438-5 (kiye banjur dadi kanggo film sing judule pada)
* *The Martian Way and Other Stories* (1955)
* *Earth Is Room Enough* (1957)
* *Nine Tomorrows* (1959, muat cerita pendek *[[The Last Question]]*)
* *The Rest of the Robots* (1964)
* *Nightfall and Other Stories* (1969)
* *The Early Asimov* (1972)
* *The Best of Isaac Asimov* (1973)
* *Buy Jupiter and Other Stories* (1975)
* *The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories* (1976)
* *The Complete Robot* (1982)
* *The Winds of Change and Other Stories* (1983)
* *Robot Dreams* (1986)
* *Gold* (1990)
* *Magic* (1995)

### Misteri

#### Novel

* *The Death Dealers* (1958) (sing diterbitna maning nganggo judul *A Whiff of Death*)
* *Murder at the ABA* (1976) (uga diterbitna nganggo judul *Authorized Murder*)

#### Koleksi cerita pendek (''Black Widowers'' lan liyane)

* *Asimov's Mysteries* (1968)
* *Tales of the Black Widowers* (1974)
* *More Tales of the Black Widowers* (1976)
* *Casebook of the Black Widowers* (1980)
* *Banquets of the Black Widowers* (1984)
* *The Best Mysteries of Isaac Asimov* (1986)
* *Puzzles of the Black Widowers* (1990)
* *Return of the Black Widowers* (2003)

### Non-fiksi

#### Ilmiah populer

* *The Chemicals of Life* (1954)
* *Inside the Atom* (1956)
* *The World of Carbon* (1956?)
* *The World of Nitrogen* (1958)
* *The Clock We Live On* (1959)
* *Asimov on Numbers* (1959)
* *Words of Science and the History Behind Them* (1959)
* *Life and Energy* (1962)
* *Adding a Dimension* (1964)
* *The Human Brain* (1964)
* *The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science* (1965)
* *The Neutrino* (1966)
* *The Universe: From Flat Earth to Quasar* (1966)
* *Science, Numbers and I* (1968)
* *The Solar System and Back* (1970)
* *Our World in Space* (1974)
* *Quasar, Quasar, Burning Bright* (1977)
* *The Collapsing Universe* (1977) ISBN 0-671-81738-8
* *Views of the Universe* (1981)
* *Exploring the Earth and the Cosmos* (1982)
* *The Sun Shines Bright*
* *Asimov's Chronology of Science and Discovery* (1989)
* *The Secret of The Universe* (1990)
* *Isaac Asimov's Guide to Earth and Space* (1991)
* *The Sun* (2003)
* *The Earth* (2004)
* *Jupiter* (2004)
* *Venus* (2004)

#### Cathetan
* *Asimov's Annotated "[[Don Juan]]"*
* *Asimov's Annotated "Paradise Lost"*
* *Asimov's Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan*
* *The Annotated "[[Perjalanan Gulliver|Gulliver's Travels]]"*

#### Panduan
* *Asimov's Guide to the [[Alkitab|Bible]]*, jilid I lan II (1981), ISBN 0-517-34582-X
* *Asimov's Guide to [[Shakespeare]]*

### liyane
* *Opus 100* (1969)
* *Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology* (1972)
* *Opus 200* (1979)
* *Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts* (1979)
* *Azazel* (1988)

## Bacaan lan referensi

### Media cetak

* Asimov, Isaac. *In Memory Yet Green* (1979).
:*In Joy Still Felt* (1980).
:*I, Asimov: A Memoir* (1994).
:*Yours, Isaac Asimov* (1996), disunting oleh Stanley Asimov. ISBN 0-385-47624-8.
:*It's Been a Good Life* (2002), disunting oleh Janet Asimov. ISBN 1-57392-968-9.
* Fiedler, Jean lan Jim Mele. *Isaac Asimov* (1982). ISBN 0-8044-2203-6.
* Goldman, Stephen H., "Isaac Asimov", dalam *Dictionary of Literary Biography,* Vol. 8, Cowart and Wymer eds., (Gale Research, 1981), hal. 15-29.
* Gunn, James. "On Variations on a Robot", *Asimov's Science Fiction*, Juli 1980, hal. 56-81. Dicetak ulang taun 1982.
:*Isaac Asimov: The Foundations of Science Fiction* (1982). ISBN 0-19-503060-5.
:*The Science of Science-Fiction Writing* (2000). ISBN 1-57886-011-3.
* Oleander, Joseph D. lan Martin H. Greenberg, eds. *Isaac Asimov* (1974). ISBN 0-8008-4258-8.
* Patrouch, Joseph F. *The Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov* (1977). ISBN 0-385-08696-2.
* Touponce, William F. *Isaac Asimov* (1991). ISBN 0-8057-7623-0.
* White, Michael. *Asimov: The Unauthorized Life* (1994). ISBN 1-85798-120-0.

## Pranala jaba
*  Situs resmi Isaac Asimov
** Daftar lengkap karya Asimov
** FAQ
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*  ''The Future of humanity: What Asimov thinks is the way forward for us''
*  Wawancara audio pada taun 1987 dengan Isaac Asimov - RealAudio (24 menit 59 detik)