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Asimov - one of the most prolific writers(merged with dexa)
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Anyone here reads Asimov? best known for his science-fiction works but he wrote in literally everything.
[ Last edited by seribulan at 31-12-2006 05:35 PM ] |
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Fr Wikipedia
a highly successful and exceptionally prolific writer best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books.
Asimov's most famous work is the Foundation Series.
His other major series are the Galactic Empire Series and the Robot series.
He also wrote mysteries and fantasy, as well as a great amount of non-fiction.
Asimov wrote or edited more than 500 volumes and an estimated 90,000 letters or postcards.
He has works in every major category of the Dewey Decimal System except Philosophy.
Asimov was by consensus a master of the science-fiction genre and, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke, was considered to be one of the "Big Three" science-fiction writers during his lifetime.
Most of Asimov's popularized science books explain scientific concepts in a historical way, going back as far as possible to a time when the science in question was at its simplest stage.
He often gives nationalities, birth dates and death dates for the scientists he mentions, as well as etymologies and pronunciation guides for technical terms.
Examples of this style include his Guide to Science, the three-volume set Understanding Physics, and Asimov's Chronology of Science and Discovery.
Asimov was a long-time member of Mensa, albeit reluctantly; he described them as "intellectually combative".
He took more joy in being president of the American Humanist Association.
The asteroid 5020 Asimov, the magazine Asimov's Science Fiction and two different Isaac Asimov Awards are all named in his honor. |
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Read I, Robot long time ago.. |
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Reply #1 foundation's post
I love reading his works...though scientific...should have been boring...
but not... |
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thanks - memang mengagumkan.... yang best lagi ialah kebolehan dia menulis very short stories (<50 sentences pun ada kut) - tapi tetap menarik, |
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Originally posted by periwinkle.. at 2-5-2006 12:25 PM
Read I, Robot long time ago..
Robot Series dia best - my favourites;
Sally, Bicentennial Man & of course R. Daneel Olivaw stories |
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Some of the 400 ++ boks that he wrote!
Source: Wikipedia.
Selected bibliography
In addition, see Isaac Asimov complete bibliography. For a recommended reading-order see the Foundation Series list of books. Asimov aspired to write 500 books but did not quite reach that total; he wrote over 463 titles. If all titles, charts, and edited collections are counted, there are currently 509 items in his complete bibliography. Asimov could have written an Opus 400, which would have been a celebration of his 400th title; the bibliography lists only up to his commemorative Opus 300.
Science fiction
"Greater Foundation" series
The Robot series was originally separate from the Foundation series. The Galactic Empire novels were originally published as independent stories. Later in life, Asimov synthesized them into a single coherent 'history' that appeared in the extension of the Foundation series.
The Robot series:
* The Caves of Steel (1954), ISBN 0553293400 (first Elijah Baley SF-crime novel)
* The Naked Sun (1957), ISBN 0553293397 (second Elijah Baley SF-crime novel)
* The Robots of Dawn (1983), ISBN 0553299492 (third Elijah Baley SF-crime novel)
* Robots and Empire (1985) (sequel to the Elijah Baley trilogy)
* The Positronic Man (1993) (with Robert Silverberg, a novel based on Asimov's earlier short story "The Bicentennial Man")
Galactic Empire series:
* Pebble in the Sky (1950)
* The Stars, Like Dust (1951)
* The Currents of Space (1952)
Original Foundation trilogy:
* Foundation (1951), ISBN 0553293354
* Foundation and Empire (1952), ISBN 0553293370
* Second Foundation (1953), ISBN 0553293362
Extended Foundation series:
* Foundation's Edge (1982), ISBN 0553293389
* Foundation and Earth (1986), ISBN 0553587579
* Prelude to Foundation (1988), ISBN 0553278398
* Forward the Foundation (1993), ISBN 0385247931 (hardcover), ISBN 0553404881 (paperback)
Novels not part of a series
* The End of Eternity (1955) (there is a loose connection with Foundation's Edge, in which this story is referenced)
* Fantastic Voyage (1966) (a novelization of the movie featuring a team of American scientists traveling within a human body)
* The Gods Themselves (1972)
* Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain (1987) (not a sequel to the first Fantastic Voyage, but an independent story)
* Nemesis (1989)
* Nightfall (1990) (with Robert Silverberg, a novel based on the earlier short story)
* Child of Time (1992) (with Robert Silverberg, based on the short story The Ugly Little Boy)
* The Ugly Little Boy (1992) (with Robert Silverberg, a novel based on an earlier short story)
(While primarily independent, some of these novels have very minor connections to the Foundation series.
Short story collections
Also see List of short stories by Isaac Asimov
* I, Robot (1950), ISBN 0553294385
* The Martian Way and Other Stories (1955)
* Earth Is Room Enough (1957)
* Nine Tomorrows (1959)
* The Rest of the Robots (1964)
* Asimov's Mysteries (1968)
* 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)
* The Alternate Asimovs (1986)
* The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov (1986)
* Robot Dreams (1986)
* Azazel (1988)
* Gold (1990)
* Robot Visions (1990) ISBN 0-451-45064-7
* Magic (1995)
Mysteries
Novels
* The Death Dealers (1958) (later republished as A Whiff of Death)
* Murder at the ABA (1976) (also published as Authorized Murder)
Short story collections
Black Widowers and others
* Tales of the Black Widowers (1974)
* More Tales of the Black Widowers (1976)
* The Key Word and Other Mysteries (1977)
* Casebook of the Black Widowers (1980)
* The Union Club Mysteries (1983)
* Banquets of the Black Widowers (1984)
* The Disappearing Man and Other Mysteries (1985)
* The Best Mysteries of Isaac Asimov (1986)
* Puzzles of the Black Widowers (1990)
* Return of the Black Widowers (2003) contains stories uncollected at the time of Asimov's death, in addition to contributions by Charles Ardai and Harlan Elliso
Nonfiction
Popular science
Collections of columns from the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
1. Fact and Fancy (1962)
2. View from a Height (1963)
3. Adding a Dimension (1964)
4. Of Time, Space, & Other Things (1965)
5. From Earth to Heaven (1966)
6. Science, Numbers and I (1968)
7. The Solar System and Back (1970)
8. The Stars in Their Course (1971)
9. Left Hand of the Electron (1972)
10. The Tragedy of the Moon (1973)
11. Of Matters Great & Small (1975)
12. The Planet that Wasn't (1976)
13. Quasar, Quasar, Burning Bright (1977)
14. Road to Infinity (1979)
15. The Sun Shines Bright (1981)
16. Counting the Eons (1983)
17. X Stands for Unknown (1984)
18. The Subatomic Monster (1985)
19. Far as Human Eye Could See (1987)
20. The Relativity of Wrong (1988)
21. Out of Everywhere (1990)
22. The Secret of The Universe (1990)
* Asimov on Numbers (1959)
* Asimov's Chronology of Science and Discovery (1989, second edition extends to 1993)
* Asimov's Chronology of the World (1991)
* The Chemicals of Life (1954)
* The Clock We Live On (1959)
* The Collapsing Universe (1977) ISBN 0-671-81738-8
* The Earth (2004, revised by Richard Hantula)
* Exploring the Earth and the Cosmos (1982)
* The Human Brain (1964)
* Inside the Atom (1956)
* Isaac Asimov's Guide to Earth and Space (1991)
* The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science (1965)
* Jupiter (2004, revised by Richard Hantula)
* Life and Energy (1962)
* The Neutrino (1966)
* Our World in Space (1974)
* The Sun (2003, revised by Richard Hantula)
* The Universe: From Flat Earth to Quasar (1966)
* Venus (2004, revised by Richard Hantula)
* Views of the Universe (1981)
* Words of Science and the History Behind Them (1959)
* The World of Carbon (1958)
* The World of Nitrogen (1958)
* Isaac Asimov's Treasury of Humor (1971)
Annotations
* Asimov's Annotated "Don Juan"
* Asimov's Annotated " aradise Lost"
* Asimov's Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan
* The Annotated "Gulliver's Travels"
Guides
* Asimov's Guide to the Bible, vols I and II (1981), ISBN 0-517-34582-X
* Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare
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Other
* Opus 100 (1969)
* The Sensuous Dirty Old Man (1971)
* Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (1972)
* Opus 200 (1979)
* Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts (1979)
* The Roving Mind (1983) (collection of essays).
and who can foget R. Daneel Olivaw huh? R = Robot !!!
he played such a HUGE PART in one of the books in the Foundation series.....
thank you foundation!!! now i know what i'm gonna spend my summer in malaysia with 
[ Last edited by raeshad at 4-5-2006 01:35 AM ] |
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Reply #5 seribulan's post
yes!!! he he....he NVR bores me with his books!!!!
it's also one of the earliest books that i read that made me a follower of Prof James Lovelock's GAIA theory!!!!!
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Originally posted by raeshad at 4-5-2006 09:23 AM
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!
foundation suker his books??????
I LOOOOVVVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE it!!!!!!! seriously......
not I, Robot though - that was just a short story!!!!(and partly coz i havent ...
great. I have hundreds of books at home and generally, most of the fictions are simply read and forget BUT the 20 or so Asimov's books are for keep.
As for the Laws of Robotics - I think there are only 4; 1,2,3 and zeroth. Others may have tried to add more from the original from the master is only 4. 3 developed by human and 1 by a robot.... interesting huh.... what makes this more interesting is the fact that even in serious Artifical Intelligence works nowadays, Asimov's 3 laws of robotic are referred to consistently. |
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Originally posted by raeshad at 4-5-2006 09:34 AM
Some of the 400 ++ boks that he wrote!
and who can foget R. Daneel Olivaw huh? R = Robot !!!
he played such a HUGE PART in one of the books in the Foundation series.....
thank you f ...
if you love Olivaw in Foundation, then you should check out his exploits with Elijah Bailey (in one of the later Foundation series, there's a mention to him). Not to forget the foremost robopsycologist of them all, Dr Susan Calvin.
all these can be found in his robot works;
Short Story Collections:
I, Robot
The Rest of the Robots
The Complete Robot (a single collection of most of Asimov's pre-1982 robot stories)
Robot Dreams
Robot Visions
Novels:
The Caves of Steel
The Naked Sun
The Robots of Dawn
Robots and Empire
the beauty of it all is his ability to link-up all his themes (e.g. Olivaw appearing in Foundation Series; and th Spacer too). |
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Another part to Asimov's fiction works that is not well known but are actually very good is his works in Mystery. Exploits of Dr Urth is simply engaging and unconventional. Rasanya bukunya Asimov's Mysteries. The Billiard Ball is one story that I remember. |
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Reply #12 foundation's post
the beauty of it all is his ability to link-up all his themes (e.g. Olivaw appearing in Foundation Series; and th Spacer too).
yes...so true...and the fact the science in his books are real science all right....i forgot what's the name of his friend, but asimov got his scientific knowledge by referring it to his friend.. not sure what his friend works as [foundation tau ker?]
okies..insyaAllah will try to get the books later...
banyaknyer..hundres eh? xper2...sket2 lamer2 jadi bukit....
i'm gonna try his robot series next.....
but i'm soo in love with the foundation series
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Reply #11 foundation's post
ohh.....got the facts wrong plak.... he he...sorry...
yes, the 'zeroeth' law was added later - when humanity was so bad in keeping their own future 'good' right?
he he...
maybe spoiler to anyone who wants to read it, but I was REALLY3 surprised to know that the R. Daneel Oilvaw was a robot in the end! [that he was responsible for everything! just gotta love asimov's writing style!
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Originally posted by raeshad at 6-5-2006 09:28 PM
yes...so true...and the fact the science in his books are real science all right....i forgot what's the name of his friend, but asimov got his scientific knowledge by referring it to his ...
not sure abt a friend but he himself is a scientist and very smart. pHD in Chemistry (or was it Biology?). used to teach biology/chemistry at boston u. he's also known as a professor (most likely from his teaching years). unlikely for him to get facts from someone else as he is a bit of an ego (in the way geniuses are - to me he is a genius in his own way). he is always proud of the fact that he created everything himself - in btwn his ears. Read one of his anthologies of mysteries where he would write an intro to each story in there and he was mentioning abt how people asked him the research he did to depict a situation in the story (abt covert operation). His answer was something like 'just my imagination'. |
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Reply #14 raeshad's post
very difficult to find asimov's works in malaysia (dulu). I found most of mine in the uk. one of the best places for cheap classics are car-boot sales. i think you should take advantage of it.
if you are back and wish to borrow (strictly borrow ;) ) some of mine - no prob. |
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Reply #17 foundation's post
ohh....foundation tak tahu, how i wish ader car-boot sales kat sinih!!!
but Ireland's no UK. he he.....even though that only applies to the republic of ireland, not the northern part though
kat sinih takder carboot sales la....i know....my sister n friends mentioned me bout them thousand times......
i agree....before the film I Robot, mmg sgt susah nk cari buku dier, tapi after that, snang gak...
rae before this pun cari kat second-hand bookshops jer...banyak gak..n Library! ha ha...tak sangka ader....
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Reply #17 foundation's post
thanks for the offer....he he....i'll seriously think about it
nah...nvr mind la....i'll try and find it myself later...
foundation got the books in UK - it must be one of the earlier editions right? [jeles]
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Originally posted by raeshad at 6-5-2006 11:40 PM
thanks for the offer....he he....i'll seriously think about it
nah...nvr mind la....i'll try and find it myself later...
foundation got the books in UK - it must be one of the earlier ed ...
ye ke tak de car boot kat sana.....rugile...
i found a lady selling a box full of asimov books. her husband's. that's the day I had to walk back as I spent every single penny i had (though i still didn't get to buy all - what a loss). |
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