Isaac Asimov
Personal Information
Description
Asimov was born sometime between October 4, 1919 and January 2, 1920 in Petrovichi in Smolensk Oblast, RSFSR (now Russia), the son of a Jewish family of millers. Although his exact date of birth is uncertain, Asimov himself celebrated it on January 2. His family emigrated to Brooklyn, New York and opened a candy store when he was three years old. He taught himself to read at the age of five. He began reading the science fiction pulp magazines that his family's store carried. Around the age of eleven, he began to write his own stories, and by age nineteen, he was selling them to the science fiction magazines. He graduated from Columbia University in 1939. He married Gertrude Blugerman in 1942. During World War II he worked as a civilian at the Philadelphia Navy Yard's Naval Air Experimental Station. After the war, he returned to Columbia University and earned a Ph.D. in biochemistry in 1948. He then joined the faculty of the Boston University School of Medicine until 1958, when he became a full-time writer. His first novel, [Pebble in the Sky]( was published in 1950. He and his wife divorced in 1973, and he married Janet O. Jeppson the same year. He was a highly prolific writer, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 9,000 letters and postcards.
Books
Wandering Stars
A heart-rending story of a Native American community told through the generations Following the arc of two centuries, from the horrors of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 to the early 21st century, Wandering Stars is an indelible novel of America's war on its own people. It is also the tender, shattering story of several generations of a Native American family, searching for ways through displacement and pain, towards home and hope: a wondrous novel of poetry, music, rage and love, from one of the most astonishing voices of his generation.
Witches
Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy
Twenty essays on writing science fiction and fantasy by leading speculative fiction writers. An enjoyable and informative read. On the Writing of Speculative Fiction - Robert A. Heinlein Living the Future: You Are What You Eat - Gardner Dozois Plotting - Isaac Asimov Dialog - Isaac Asimov You and Your Characters - James Patrick Kelly Seeing Your Way to Better Stories - Stanley Schmidt Turtles All the Way Down - Jane Yolen Learning to Write Comedy or Why It's Impossible and How to Do It - Connie Willis Good Writing is Not Enough - Stanley Schmidt The Creation of Imaginary Worlds: The World Builder's Handbook and Pocket Companion - Poul Anderson The Creation of Imaginary Beings - Hal Clement How to Build a Future - John Barnes Building a Starfaring Age - Norman Spinrad The Ideas That Wouldn't Die - Stanley Schmidt The Mechanics of Submission - Sheila Williams Revisions - Isaac Asimov Writing for Young People - Isaac Asimov New Writers - Isaac Asimov Authors vs. Editors - Stanley Schmidt Market Resources - Ian Randal Strock
Ancient astronomy
Briefly describes beliefs of astronomers from ancient times to 1609, when Galileo's discoveries through the telescope gave birth to modern astronomy.
Show Business Is Murder
Credit to Shakespeare [Short story] by Julian Symons What'sisname by George Baxt The Kumquats Affair by Francis M. Jr. Nevins Sock Finish by Robert Bloch Cliffhanger by Georgiana Eidukas Bad Actor by Gary Brandner Just a Gag by Tex Hill The Confrontation Scene by William Bankier Ten Percent of Murder [Short Story] by Henry Slesar Murder in the Movies by Karl Detzer The Lithuanian Eraser Mystery by Jon L. Breen Death at the Opera [Short story] by Michael Underwood On Different Tracks by Michael Scott Cain The Decline and Fall of Norbert Tuffy by Ron Goulart The Spy Who Stayed Up All Night [Short story] by Edward D. Hoch The Acting of a Dreadful Thing by Lionel Booker The Adventure of the Hanging Acrobat [Short story] by Ellery Queen Mystery Tune [short story] by Isaac Asimov
Fantasy Stories
Diana Wynne Jones's personal choice of favorite fantasy writing is a treat for all fans - and the perfect introduction for anyone coming to this genre for the first time. This collection contains stories from some of the best fantasy writers of all time. With stories including extracts from classics to modern favorites, this is a comprehensive and satisfying anthology. There are humorous stories by E. Nesbit, Eva Ibbotson, and Isaac Asimov; tales in a darker mood from Andre Norton and Joan Aiken; and plenty of dragons, witches, wizards, and other magical creatures throughout. A typically intriguing new story from Diana Wynne Jones herself brings the collection right up to date. Part of the Story Library series of anthologies. Contents: "Boris Chernevsky's Hands" by Jane Yolen "The Hobgoblin's Hat" by Tove Jansson (from Finn Family Moomintroll) "Ully the Piper" by Andre Norton "Milo Conducts the Dawn" by Norton Juster (from The Phantom Tollbooth) "Who Goes Down This Dark Road?" by Joan Aiken "The House of Harfang" by C.S. Lewis (from The Silver Chair) "Martha in the Witch's Power" by K.M. Briggs (from Hobberdy Dick) "Prince Delightful and the Flameless Dragon" by Isaac Asimov "The Box of Delights" (an extract) by John Masefield "The Amazing Flight of the Gump" by L. Frank Baum (from The Land of Oz) "On the Great Wall" by Rudyard Kipling (from Puck of Pook's Hill) "The Waking of the Kraken" by Eva Ibbotson (from Which Witch?) "The Caves in the Hill" by Elizabeth Goudge (from Henrietta's House) "Bigger than the Baker's Boy" by E. Nesbit (from Five Children and It) "Jermain and the Sorceress" by Patricia C. Wrede (from The Seven Towers) "Una and the Red Cross Knight" by Andrew Lang (from The Red Book Romance) "What the Cat Told Me" by Diana Wynne Jones
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame -- Volume One
The greatest science fiction stories of all time chosen by the members of the Science Fiction Writers of America.
Science Fiction Stories
First Words
The tragedy of King Lear with related readings
King Lear by William Shakespeare On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again by John Keats Student Matinee, Stratford by Margaret Stinson Caporushes by Flora Annie Steel King Lear in Respite Care by Margaret Atwood Nothing Shall Come of Nothing by Mairi MacInnes Wise Enough to Play the Fool by Isaac Asimov Send in the Clowns by Goenawan Mohamad Refrain by Mary Jo Salter Goneril by Karel Capek I Dream of Lear by Jerry W, Ward, Jr, The Blind lxading the Blind by Lisel Mueller A Dog, a Horse, a Rat by A.S. Byatt The Happy Ending Kmg Lear by Nahum Tate Why Lear Must Die by Victor Hugo Cordelia by Anna Jameson Calm After Storm by Frank Yerby Why King Lear Is the Cruellest Play by Frank Kermode
Scary!
Anthology: Give yourself the shivers with these fourteen stories by the master scaremongers. 1. The Spell - R. L. Stine 2. It’s a Good Life - Jerome Bixby 3. Drink My Red Blood - Richard Matheson 4. Something Nasty - William F. Nolan 5. The Restless Ghost - Leon Garfield 6. The Thirteenth Day of Christmas - Isaac Asimov 7. Hush! - Zenna Henderson 8. Spotty Powder - Roald Dahl 9. A Baby Tramp - Ambrose Bierce 10. The Man Upstairs - Ray Bradbury 11. Dead Language Master - Joan Aiken 12. Here There Be Tygers - Stephen King 13. The Trick [“Trick or Treat”] - Ramsey Campbell 14. A Toy for Juliette - Robert Bloch
Once upon a time
A collection of original fairy tales by ten science fiction and fantasy writers, including Isaac Asimov, Lester del Rey, and Anne McCaffrey.
Great Tales of Crime and Detection
Out the window / Lawrence Block Major crimes / Loren D. Estleman Silent warning / William J. Carroll, Jr. The third man / Graham Greene The cross of Lorraine / Isaac Asimov Nameless enemy / Miriam Allen DeFord Tragedy of a handkerchief / Michael Innes Unc foils show foe / John Jakes Dangerous widows / Mignon G. Eberhart Ride the lightning / John Lutz Till Tuesday / Jeremiah Healy The day of the losers / Dick Francis The case of the Pietro Andromache / Sara Paretsky Susu and the 8:30 ghost / Lillian Jackson Braun The investigation of things / Charles Ardai The trailor murder mystery / Abraham Lincoln The importance of trifles / Avram Davidson The double-barrelled detective story / Mark Twain The adventure of the oval window / John H. Dirckx Your appointment is cancelled / Antonia Fraser Le Chateau de L'Arsenic / Georges Simenon The nine mile walk / Harry Kemelman Crime in rhyme / Robert Bloch [The Purloined Letter]( / Edgar Allan Poe [The man with the twisted lip]( / Arthur Conan Doyle
Magic
128 p. : 29 cm
Norby and the Court Jester
While visiting the toy and game fair on planet Izz, Jeff and Norby search for a missing robot and the villain responsible for sabotaging the planet's computer system.