Isaac Asimov Bibliography,Isaac Asimov Biography,novels,fictions. Gold. Back | NextContents by Isaac Asimov Isaac Asimov introduced earlier collections of Hugo winners with his jovial authority.
This story carries forward effortlessly, gliding on his unique gift for quick narration and darting ideas. Isaac was a genius at the apparently simple. Anyone who thinks that writing about complex ideas, including both modern science and the human heart, with clarity and simplicity, is welcome to try; if so, take Asimov as your model. Jonas Willard looked from side to side and tapped his baton on the stand before him. He said, "Understood now? He looked again from side to side. Willard said, "All right now. Lear appeared. Willard said, "Not bent. "Right, chief," said the Lear voice-recorder, nodding. "All right. And there she was, almost as tall as Lear, standing straight and rigid as a statue, her draped clothing in fine array, nothing out of place. The Complete Robot by Isaac Asimov_free online reading books. The Complete Stories by Isaac Asimov_free online reading books. Isaac Asimov Home Page.
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Here you'll find a comprehensive collection of resources pertaining to Isaac Asimov (1920-1992), the quintessential author, who in his lifetime wrote over 500 books that enlightened, entertained, and spanned the realm of human knowledge. The Isaac Asimov FAQ The FAQ for the Usenet newsgroup alt.books.isaac-asimov provides answers to the frequently asked questions about Isaac Asimov, and is an excellent place to start if you have questions about him.
Included is biographical information about both his personal life and his literary life, answers to questions about the Foundation and Robot series, and more. For a German translation of the FAQ, see Bálint Krizsán's site. Moonshine. WHEN I WAS VERY YOUNG I read a number of stories and saw several motion pictures which featured some unfortunate individual who tended to turn into a wolf at the time of the full Moon.
The logic behind this troubled me, however. Why the full Moon? I had frequently seen the full Moon and been exposed to its light and I had felt no effect of any kind as a result. Was moonshine substantially different from sunshine or from artificial light? For that matter, was the light of a full Moon different from the light of a Moon one day past the full, or one day before it? I could work out no satisfactory answers to such questions and the easiest way out was to decide that werewolves could not be affected by the Moon in the manner described. This business of attributing strange powers to moonshine continues, however. First, I know very well that human beings have been aware of the changing shape of the Moon from prehistoric times. Reason. I, Robot. The Feeling of Power. The Fun They Had. Segregationist. The surgeon looked up without expression.
"Is he ready? " "Ready is a relative term," said the med-eng. "We're ready. He's restless. " "They always are. . . . "Serious or not, he should be thankful. "Don't say it," said the surgeon. "We accept it. "Yes," said the surgeon, crisply. "All right," said the med-eng, unmollified. The surgeon said, "I'll see him right in here, I think. "It won't help. "Has he indeed? " "Yes. The surgeon's face did not change expression. "Why bother? " "You don't care? " "Why should I? " Nightfall. Isaac Asimov.
"Nightfall" Title: Nightfall Author: Isaac Asimov Original copyright year: 1941 Genre: science fiction Date of e-text: September 12, 1999 Prepared by: Ken If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God? ' EMERSON Aton 77, director of Saro University, thrust out a belligerent lower lip and glared at the young newspaperman in a hot fury. Theremon 762 took that fury in his stride. Profession. Of course, Reading Day had been different.
Partly, there was the simple fact of childhood. A boy of eight takes many extraordinary things in stride. One day you can’t read and the next day you can. Asimovs Guide to the Bible. Hallucination. The Machine That Won the War. Youth by Isaac Asimov.