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Science Fiction A to Z
Collection of 50 stories by such authors as Allan Dean Foster, Anne McCaffrey, Andre Norton, Gordon R Dixon, Arthur C Clark, Fritz Leiber, L Sprague De Camp, HG Wells, Ray Bradbury, and Piers Anthony.
651 pages, Hardcover
First published August 12, 1982
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Isaac Asimov
4,338 books27.8k 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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September 5, 2016
Never mind the gimmick. Never mind that many of the stories are so dated that a modern reader has trouble appreciating them even just for their historical value. Never mind that some great authors are represented by some of their weakest work.
Read this anyway, if you get a chance. Choose your own favorites. Mine are probably A Death in the House by Clifford D. Simak, "Skirmish on a Summer Morning" by Bob Shaw, and most especially, the one I cannot stop thinking about, "For the Sake of Grace" by Suzette Haden Elgin.
That one alone is worth buying the book for, I think, especially if you're a feminist. I see by the titles of Elgin's other works that this story could easily have been overly earnest or didactic, but it's very well edited, a clean novelette stripped until it's a deceptively simple story that is both brilliantly written and packs a wallop. Even though her other titles don't particularly interest me, I will be trying to find and read some of them.
Read this anyway, if you get a chance. Choose your own favorites. Mine are probably A Death in the House by Clifford D. Simak, "Skirmish on a Summer Morning" by Bob Shaw, and most especially, the one I cannot stop thinking about, "For the Sake of Grace" by Suzette Haden Elgin.
That one alone is worth buying the book for, I think, especially if you're a feminist. I see by the titles of Elgin's other works that this story could easily have been overly earnest or didactic, but it's very well edited, a clean novelette stripped until it's a deceptively simple story that is both brilliantly written and packs a wallop. Even though her other titles don't particularly interest me, I will be trying to find and read some of them.
August 10, 2015
Delivers as promised; great collection of enjoyable, memorable scifi stories. Even if some of the material may be dated, the promise of the science fiction is timeless.
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