“The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there,” is probably the only famous sentence written by the English novelist L P Hartley. It also sums up nicely a collection of photographs ...

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Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) wrote 470 books on every subject from robots to Shakespeare and an estimated 90,000 letters, hundreds of which are collected here by his brother, an adjunct associate ...

If there’s one word to describe Isaac Asimov, it’s “prolific.” To match the number of novels, letters, essays and other scribblings Asimov produced in his lifetime, you would have to write a ...

One of the most important people in the world of robotics isn't a conventional roboticist at all, but a science fiction author. Go straight to the story of Isaac Asimov > Isaac Asimov grew up in ...

Isaac Asimov had a PhD in chemistry. His first sci-fi story was rejected by a publisher in 1938. (Photo by Phillip Leonian from New York via Wikimedia Commons) One of the greatest science-fiction ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Stuart Anderson writes about immigration, business and globalization. Isaac Asimov, one of the greatest science fiction writers of ...

In a completely unscientific survey I conducted for the express purpose of writing this article, I sent a WhatsApp message to many of my (what I hoped were) sci-fi reading friends asking what they ...

This excerpt is adapted from “Generation Robot” by Terri Favro. Published by Skyhorse Publishing, 2020. All rights reserved. The year 2020 marks a milestone in ...

Isaac Asimov is best known for writing science fiction novels like the Foundation and Robot series, but the amazingly prolific author also penned hundreds of mysteries, short stories, science guides, ...