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The Complete Stories
Mother Earth: And Other Stories
HarperVoyager MOTHER EARTHCOMPLETE STORI ABISBOOK HarperVoyager.
398 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 28, 2024
About the author
Isaac Asimov
4,430 books28.8k followersWorks of prolific Russian-American writer Isaac Asimov include popular explanations of scientific principles,
The Foundation Trilogy
(1951-1953), and other volumes of fiction.
Isaac Asimov, a professor of biochemistry, wrote as a highly successful author, best known for his books.
Asimov, professor, generally considered of all time, edited more than five hundred books and ninety thousand letters and postcards. He published in nine of the ten major categories of the Dewey decimal classification but lacked only an entry in the category of philosophy (100).
People widely considered Asimov, a master of the genre alongside Robert Anson Heinlein and Arthur Charles Clarke as the "big three" during his lifetime. He later tied Galactic Empire and the Robot into the same universe as his most famous series to create a unified "future history" for his stories much like those that Heinlein pioneered and Cordwainer Smith and Poul Anderson previously produced. He penned "Nightfall," voted in 1964 as the best short story of all time; many persons still honor this title. He also produced well mysteries, fantasy, and a great quantity of nonfiction. Asimov used Paul French, the pen name, for the Lucky Starr, series of juvenile novels.
Most books of Asimov in a historical way go as far back to a time with possible question or concept at its simplest stage. He often provides and mentions well nationalities, birth, and death dates for persons and etymologies and pronunciation guides for technical terms. Guide to Science, the tripartite set Understanding Physics, and Chronology of Science and Discovery exemplify these books.
Asimov, a long-time member, reluctantly served as vice president of Mensa international and described some members of that organization as "brain-proud and aggressive about their IQs." He took more pleasure as president of the humanist association. The asteroid 5020 Asimov, the magazine Asimov's Science Fiction, an elementary school in Brooklyn in New York, and two different awards honor his name.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_As...
Isaac Asimov, a professor of biochemistry, wrote as a highly successful author, best known for his books.
Asimov, professor, generally considered of all time, edited more than five hundred books and ninety thousand letters and postcards. He published in nine of the ten major categories of the Dewey decimal classification but lacked only an entry in the category of philosophy (100).
People widely considered Asimov, a master of the genre alongside Robert Anson Heinlein and Arthur Charles Clarke as the "big three" during his lifetime. He later tied Galactic Empire and the Robot into the same universe as his most famous series to create a unified "future history" for his stories much like those that Heinlein pioneered and Cordwainer Smith and Poul Anderson previously produced. He penned "Nightfall," voted in 1964 as the best short story of all time; many persons still honor this title. He also produced well mysteries, fantasy, and a great quantity of nonfiction. Asimov used Paul French, the pen name, for the Lucky Starr, series of juvenile novels.
Most books of Asimov in a historical way go as far back to a time with possible question or concept at its simplest stage. He often provides and mentions well nationalities, birth, and death dates for persons and etymologies and pronunciation guides for technical terms. Guide to Science, the tripartite set Understanding Physics, and Chronology of Science and Discovery exemplify these books.
Asimov, a long-time member, reluctantly served as vice president of Mensa international and described some members of that organization as "brain-proud and aggressive about their IQs." He took more pleasure as president of the humanist association. The asteroid 5020 Asimov, the magazine Asimov's Science Fiction, an elementary school in Brooklyn in New York, and two different awards honor his name.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_As...
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March 11, 2025
An interesting collection of short stories. The title story is set in the 'Spacers' universe, although it varies a little from the plot of the other novels.
October 24, 2025
The fil rouge of the collection isn't always clear and some short stories seem kind of out of place, but it's a charming selection in transition from tge light-hearted, often humorous tales on robots and into the more profound discourses on resources distribution and control, ecology, tied together with space exploration and earthly politics.
It's worth reading if only for some delightful showcasing of Asimov’s mastery in short fiction.
It's worth reading if only for some delightful showcasing of Asimov’s mastery in short fiction.
February 1, 2026
Asimov in full command of his greatest strength: turning clean, elegant ideas into stories that feel both timeless and startlingly relevant. These early works crackle with intellectual confidence, tackling politics, prejudice, expansion, and human ingenuity with clarity and quiet wit. The prose is lean, the concepts sharp, and the sense of curiosity infectious. Each story feels like a precise thought experiment that still manages to entertain. While some elements reflect their era, the imagination on display is pure Asimov: optimistic without being naive, rigorous without being cold, and endlessly influential. A deeply enjoyable collection that reminds you just how much modern science fiction still traces its roots back to him.
October 24, 2025
Excellent collection of sci fi shorts; much variety in length/depth and some variety in quality.
Displaying 1 - 4 of 4 reviews