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Les sept premières missions qui se sont posées sur Callisto n'ont plus jamais donné signe de vie. Pourquoi en irait-il autrement de la huitième ? Peut-être parce qu'il s'y trouve un certain passager clandestin... Des ouvriers extraterrestres, ayant entendu parler de la légende du père Noël, exigent - sous peine d'une grève qui paralyserait Ganymède - que le merveilleux bonhomme à barbe blanche descende du ciel pour leur apporter des cadeaux. Imaginez des chats à quatre dimensions, d'irrésistibles félins vivant dans une dimension temporelle différente de la nôtre, ronronnant la veille d'une caresse, miaulant à contretemps. Ce recueil regroupe vingt-sept nouvelles d'Isaac Asimov publiées au début de sa carrière. Les longs commentaires de l'auteur qui accompagnent ces textes apportent un éclairage inédit sur la genèse d'un génie de la science-fiction et sur l'âge d'or du genre.
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Published September 1, 2016
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Isaac Asimov
4,341 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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July 11, 2019
Le recueil de nouvelles anthologie-biographie à lire pour porter un nouveau regard sur cet auteur incontournable de la SF ! Un regard amusé et désacralisé.
Passionnant et original : sur la base d'un journal intime avorté recyclé en journal de bord d'étudiant-apprenti écrivain, Asimov nous emmène sur les traces de ses premiers écrits. Des nouvelles hésitantes, naïves, originales parfois stupéfiantes d'anticipation ou comiques de fourvoiement et même, bien sûr... fondatrices et positroniques !
L'influence contemporaine, des années 30 à 1950, de la seconde guerre mondiale est palpable. Comme sa crainte et son rejet du racisme, du suprématisme et du génisme. L'œuvre immense d'Isaac Asimov prend ses racines à New-York sous la menace puis l'horreur du nazisme envahissant l'Europe mais aussi par passion et curiosité pour la science, la chimie, les robots, la fission nucléaire et une future conquête spatiale. On lui découvre un intérêt marqué pour la psychologie et la sociologie.
Et on apprend comment devenir un auteur culte, grâce au hasard de quelques bonnes rencontres, à un génie certain et à beaucoup de travail et d'efforts infructueux pour des gains plus que modestes.
Passionnant et original : sur la base d'un journal intime avorté recyclé en journal de bord d'étudiant-apprenti écrivain, Asimov nous emmène sur les traces de ses premiers écrits. Des nouvelles hésitantes, naïves, originales parfois stupéfiantes d'anticipation ou comiques de fourvoiement et même, bien sûr... fondatrices et positroniques !
L'influence contemporaine, des années 30 à 1950, de la seconde guerre mondiale est palpable. Comme sa crainte et son rejet du racisme, du suprématisme et du génisme. L'œuvre immense d'Isaac Asimov prend ses racines à New-York sous la menace puis l'horreur du nazisme envahissant l'Europe mais aussi par passion et curiosité pour la science, la chimie, les robots, la fission nucléaire et une future conquête spatiale. On lui découvre un intérêt marqué pour la psychologie et la sociologie.
Et on apprend comment devenir un auteur culte, grâce au hasard de quelques bonnes rencontres, à un génie certain et à beaucoup de travail et d'efforts infructueux pour des gains plus que modestes.
January 1, 2022
Entre le recueil de nouvelles et l'autobiographe, Asimov livre ces premiers textes (et donc d'une qualité inégale) ainsi que des éléments de sa vie lors de son début dans le monde la Science Fiction. Un livre très intéressant donc.
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