Works 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.
阿西莫夫,银河帝国 今年疫情期间继飘看完的另一部巨型著作。首章看的时候我还在倒时差,不知不觉成为了睡前读物,名字繁杂,每段故事里都有一个英雄,但在漫长的银河岁月中不过沧海一粟,读起来令人昏昏欲睡。但后来看到了骡乱,忽然就被吸引,经常看到深夜也觉得后脊发凉,细想觉得比之重武器更可怕的是不知道何时就能操控人的心灵的手段。心理学史创立者谢顿在首部书被写的如同天神一般,第二部写他生平尤其暮年,平凡,孤独又无助苍凉,其实也是凡人,不过是充当了机器人为了救护人类的手段。最近看完的最后一部,像小时看的的希腊神话,每个岛屿(星球)上都居住着不同习惯的人类。几天熬夜看下来,今天终于看完了。深感要写未来的作者,不仅要懂物理,还要思考人类历史习惯及心理。最末,大段篇幅的对话在讨论,到底是什么样的世界才是人类发展的终点,是孤独还是整体,怕是作者自己也未曾有百分百的把握。 good night, fly me to the moon