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My Son, the Physicist
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First published February 1, 1962
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Isaac Asimov
4,338 books27.7k 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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June 18, 2025
They’re not all winners.
This did not work at all. This is like a dream written down just after waking up, in the hopes to turn into a proper short story or a novel. Then forgetting and publishing it anyway. And the misogynistic undertones don’t help either.
This did not work at all. This is like a dream written down just after waking up, in the hopes to turn into a proper short story or a novel. Then forgetting and publishing it anyway. And the misogynistic undertones don’t help either.
September 20, 2018
Of course, even grown-up children know they should always listen to their mother
June 25, 2019
Continuous talking to Planet Pluto. A sexist caricature of a loud and abrasive Mother.
August 16, 2022
Tierna historia en que se trata de que siempre hay que escuchar a nuestras queridas mamás aunque estemos muy mayores, siempre las necesitaremos.
July 17, 2023
The secret of female “communication” is exposed.
December 5, 2021
Collected in Nightfall and Other Stories. In this super short micro-fiction story, Gerard Cremona's mother visits him just as he is stymied by the problem of trying to speed up communications between the Pluto expedition and Earth which has a 12 hour delay due to the time it takes for the signal to be transferred and received. As usual, mom comes up with an elegant solution, because obviously.
June 11, 2023
A quick read, that didn't have anything memorable or impressive for me.
Asimov wrote it for Scientific American and included communication technology as a part of the story because the associated advertising sold comms tech, though the writer is allowed pretty much full creative freedom.
Asimov wrote it for Scientific American and included communication technology as a part of the story because the associated advertising sold comms tech, though the writer is allowed pretty much full creative freedom.
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