"be taken more seriously because of the work of writers such as Arthur C. Clarke's (""""), Isaac Asimov, Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert Heinlein, Michael Moorcock and Kim Stanley Robinson. Another prominent writer in this genre, Douglas Adams, is particularly associated with the comic science fiction work, ""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"", which began life as a radio series in 1978. Mainstream novelists such Doris Lessing and Margaret Atwood also wrote works in this genre, while Scottish novelist Ian M. Banks has also achieved a reputation as both a writer of traditional and science fiction novels. Twentieth-century English literature"
"and Theodore Sturgeon. Contemporary political issues were also given voice, as John Brunner and J.G. Ballard wrote cautionary tales about, respectively, overpopulation and apocalypse. Asimov noted that the Second Revolution was far less clear cut than the first, attributing this to the development of the anthology, which made older stories more prominent. But a number of Golden Age writers changed their style as the New Wave hit. Robert A. Heinlein switched from his Campbellian Future History stories to stylistically adventuresome, sexually open works of fiction, notably ""Stranger in a Strange Land"" and ""The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress"". Isaac Asimov"
"basis for the three novellas by Pratt, H. Beam Piper and Judith Merril forming the body of the work. An excerpt from Clark's introduction (""The Silicone World"") was reissued in the December, 1952 issue of ""Startling Stories"", and the whole was reprinted in the 1983 Ace edition of Piper's contribution to the book, ""Uller Uprising"". However, the ""Startling Stories"" excerpt has also been credited to Pratt, who supposedly utilized Clark's name as a pseudonym. Isaac Asimov, whom Clark first met in 1942, wrote the foreword to his book ""Ignition!"" John Drury Clark John Drury Clark, Ph.D. (August 15, 1907 –"
"A.B. Yehoshua, and David Grossman. It boasts masterpieces that have had a considerable influence on all of western culture, Jewish culture included - works such as those of Heinrich Heine, Gustav Mahler, Leonard Bernstein, Marc Chagall, Jacob Epstein, Ben Shahn, Amedeo Modigliani, Franz Kafka, Max Reinhardt (Goldman), Ernst Lubitsch, and Woody Allen. Other notable contributors are Isaac Asimov author of the ""Foundation series"" and others such as ""I, robot"", ""Nightfall"" and ""The Gods Themselves""; Joseph Heller (""Catch-22""); R.L. Stine (""Goosebumps"" series); J. D. Salinger (""The Catcher in the Rye""); Michael Chabon (""The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay"", ""The Yiddish"
"His investigation will lead him to think that jokes are of alien origin and designed to study the psychology of earthlings. Isaac Asimov's Treasury of Humor Isaac Asimov's Treasury of Humor is a book of ""640 jokes, anecdotes, and limericks, complete with notes on how to tell them"". Isaac Asimov was one of the most prolific writers in the past century, known for his many science fiction and non-fiction works. His 'guide' series is one of his scholarly contributions to the world's understanding of literature. For instance, ""Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare"" and ""Asimov's Guide to the Bible"", both prominent in"
"for control of society. ""Saturn's Children"" is an homage to the works of Isaac Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein, in particular Heinlein's 1982 novel ""Friday"". The novel opens with an explanation of Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics, and then establishes that humans are extinct. Jesse Willis of SFFaudio.com commented: ""Bookmarks"" magazine called the novel ""a commentary on identity and free will in a post-human galaxy"", adding: ""Booklist"" praised ""Saturn's Children"" as “one of the most stylishly imaginative robot tales ever penned"", and ""The Times"" described it as ""a smart and playful romp.” The ""San Diego Union-Tribune"" called the novel “Good"
"Isaac Asimov's Inferno Isaac Asimov's Inferno (1994) is a science fiction novel by American writer Roger MacBride Allen, set in Isaac Asimov's ""Robot""/""Empire""/""Foundation"" universe. This series deals with a new type of robots who do not have the Three Laws of Robotics. The Three Laws are integral to the functioning of a positronic brain, but these robots have gravitonic brains, into which it is possible to build any set of laws. For example, some gravitonic robots have already been built with the New Laws of Robotics which are designed to make them partners rather than slaves to humanity - in"
"included many talented ground-breaking authors, among them: Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Ray Bradbury, Robert E. Howard, Theodore Sturgeon, Murray Leinster, and Frank Herbert. Oscar J. Friend Oscar Jerome Friend (January 8, 1897 – January 19, 1963) began his career primarily as a pulp fiction author in various genres including horror, Westerns, science fiction, and detective fiction. As a pulp writer he worked with ""Wonder Stories"", ""Startling Stories"", ""Strange Stories"", ""Captain Future"" and ""Thrilling Wonder Stories"". As his career progressed, Oscar Friend authored many novels, which were published worldwide. Friend wrote screenplays, worked as an editor on periodicals, and was co-editor"
"for a short novel by Robert A. Heinlein called ""If This Goes On—"" which also involved religion and revolution; if Heinlein's story was better, he would reject ""Pilgrimage"". As it turned out, Heinlein's story was better, and Asimov got his story back on 6 September. When Asimov's friend and then-agent Frederik Pohl became editor of ""Astonishing Stories"" and ""Super Science Stories"" later that year, Asimov submitted ""Pilgrimage"" to him. Pohl also rejected it, saying the ending was weak. Asimov continued trying to sell ""Pilgrimage"", rewriting it twice more and changing the title to ""Galactic Crusade"". Finally, on 15 August 1941,"
"Liar! (short story) ""Liar!"" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in the May 1941 issue of ""Astounding Science Fiction"" and was reprinted in the collections ""I, Robot"" (1950) and ""The Complete Robot"" (1982). It was Asimov's third published positronic robot story. Although the word ""robot"" was introduced to the public by Czech writer Karel Čapek in his 1920 play ""R.U.R."" (Rossum's Universal Robots), Asimov's story ""Liar!"" contains the first recorded use of the word ""robotics"" according to the ""Oxford English Dictionary"". The events of this short story are also mentioned in the"
"Isaac Asimov's Treasury of Humor Isaac Asimov's Treasury of Humor is a book of ""640 jokes, anecdotes, and limericks, complete with notes on how to tell them"". Isaac Asimov was one of the most prolific writers in the past century, known for his many science fiction and non-fiction works. His 'guide' series is one of his scholarly contributions to the world's understanding of literature. For instance, ""Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare"" and ""Asimov's Guide to the Bible"", both prominent in this series, are reliable and easily understood guides which are still used in college level courses on both subjects. Along with"
"L. Sprague de Camp, and Isaac Asimov. His well-known stories include 1938's ""The Men and the Mirror,"" which was part of his Colbie and Deverel series, and 1941's ""Time Wants a Skeleton"", which has been reprinted in several anthologies, including Asimov's ""Mammoth Book of Golden Age Science Fiction"". Rocklynne partially retired from writing in the late 1950s, but made a notable return in the 1970s when his novelette ""Ching Witch!"" was included in Harlan Ellison's original anthology, ""Again, Dangerous Visions"" (1972). Rocklynne died in Los Angeles, California at the age of 75. He was survived by his two sons, Keith"
"track down the Governors in order to solve the problem of their mysterious failure before their team can. Isaac Asimov's Robots in Time Isaac Asimov's Robots in Time is a series of six science fiction novels featuring Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics. Written by American author William F. Wu as novels for young adults, they were the first series authorized to use Asimov's fictional universe after his death in 1992. Set on Earth, it tells the story of the Governors, a series of state-of-the-art administrative robots. Each Governor is physically composed of six smaller units and is responsible for"
"Robot series (Asimov) The ""Robot"" series is a series of 38 science fiction short stories and five novels by American writer Isaac Asimov, featuring positronic robots. Most of Asimov's robot short stories, which he began to write in 1939, are set in the first age of positronic robotics and space exploration. The unique feature of Asimov's robots are the Three Laws of Robotics, hardwired in a robot's positronic brain, with which all robots in his fiction must comply, and which ensure that the robot does not turn against its creators. The stories were not initially conceived as a set, but"
"The End of Eternity The End of Eternity is a Hugo Award-shortlisted 1955 science fiction novel by American writer Isaac Asimov, with mystery and thriller elements on the subjects of time travel and social engineering. Its premise is that of a causal loop – a type of temporal paradox in which events and their causes form a loop. In ""The End of Eternity"", members of the time-changing organization ""Eternity"" seek to ensure that their own organization is founded as history says it was, by ensuring the conditions for that event happen as history says they happened. The protagonist, Andrew Harlan,"
"I, Robot I, Robot is a fixup novel of science fiction short stories or essays by American writer Isaac Asimov. The stories originally appeared in the American magazines ""Super Science Stories"" and ""Astounding Science Fiction"" between 1940 and 1950 and were then compiled into a book for stand-alone publication by Gnome Press in 1950, in an initial edition of 5,000 copies. The stories are woven together by a framing narrative in which the fictional Dr. Susan Calvin tells each story to a reporter (who serves as the narrator) in the 21st century. Although the stories can be read separately, they"
"to the hubris of the Lord Chancellor: ""The Law is the true embodiment/Of everything that's excellent./It has no kind of fault or flaw/And I, My Lords, embody the Law."" ""The Ratepayers' Iolanthe"" was a 1984 musical adapted by Ned Sherrin and Alistair Beaton. Sherrin directed and won a Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in a Musical for the musical's ""conception"". The science fiction writer Isaac Asimov was a Gilbert and Sullivan fan. His Foundation Trilogy was conceived after his reading ""Iolanthe"" started a train of thought about military empires. Also, in ""Runaround"", a story in Asimov's ""I, Robot"", a"
"play as ""thought-provoking"" and ""a highly original thriller"". John Clute has lauded ""R.U.R."" as ""a play of exorbitant wit and almost demonic energy"" and lists the play as one of the ""classic titles"" of inter-war science fiction. Luciano Floridi has described the play thus: ""Philosophically rich and controversial, ""R.U.R."" was unanimously acknowledged as a masterpiece from its first appearance, and has become a classic of technologically dystopian literature."" Jarka M. Burien called ""R.U.R."" a ""theatrically effective, prototypal sci-fi melodrama"". On the other hand, Isaac Asimov, author of the ""Robot"" series of books and creator of the Three Laws of Robotics,"
"of ways, ranging from the early, technological adventure Jules Verne had made fashionable in the 1860s, to Aldous Huxley's ""Brave New World"" (1932) about Western consumerism and technology. George Orwell's ""Nineteen Eighty-Four"" (1949) deals with totalitarianism and surveillance, among other matters, while Stanisław Lem, Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke produced modern classics which focus on the interaction between humans and machines. The surreal novels of Philip K Dick such as ""The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch"" explore the nature of reality, reflecting the widespread recreational experimentation with drugs and cold-war paranoia of the 60's and 70's. Writers such as"
"Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare (1970) by Isaac Asimov is a two-volume guide to the works of the celebrated English writer William Shakespeare. The numerous maps were drafted by the artist Rafael Palacios. The work gives a short guide to every Shakespeare play, as well as two epic poems. Asimov organizes the plays not in the usual way — as tragedies, comedies, and histories — but regionally, as follows: The last two categories are treated broadly; 'Italian' applies to neighbouring countries, and both ""Hamlet"" and ""Macbeth"" are listed with 'The English Plays'. Asimov gives a detailed justification"
"Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Sprague de Camp and A. E. van Vogt. His first full-length novel, ""Buckskin Brigades"", was published in 1937. He became a ""highly idiosyncratic"" writer of science fiction after being taken under the wing of editor John W. Campbell, who published many of Hubbard's short stories and also serialized a number of well-received novelettes that Hubbard wrote for Campbell's magazines ""Unknown"" and ""Astounding Science Fiction"". These included ""Fear"", ""Final Blackout"" and ""Typewriter in the Sky"". Science fiction newsletter Xignals reported that Hubbard wrote ""over 100,000 words a month"" during his peak. Martin Gardner asserted that his"
"the Jewish golem mysticism (12th century) as well as in the idea of Homunkulus (Latin: little man) arisen from the alchemy of the Late Middle Ages. The fundamental and philosophical question of these literary works is what will happen, if humans presume to create autonomous, conscious or even godlike creatures, machines, robots or androids. While most of the older works broach the issue of the act of creation, if it is morally appropriate and which dangers could arise, Isaac Asimov was the first to realize the necessity to restrict and regulate the freedom of action of machines. He wrote the"
"a harbinger of a world in which a scholar would be left with only a barren choice of what orders to issue to robot researchers. The critic Joseph Patrouch has pointed out that the speech Asimov gives Ninheimer is an eloquent self-exculpation rather than a caricatured luddite tract and cites the story as an example of a general rule that Asimov's best stories are those in which his personal technophile optimism is thus qualified. Galley Slave ""Galley Slave"" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov, originally published in the December 1957 issue of ""Galaxy""; it was"
"Isaac Asimov's ""Foundation"" universe by Greg Bear, Gregory Benford, and David Brin. Many other published works of this nature take the form of a series of short-story anthologies with occasional standalone novels. Examples include Robert Lynn Asprin's Thieves' World, C. J. Cherryh's ""Merovingen Nights"" and Janet Morris' ""Heroes in Hell"". Within comics, the term ""shared universe"" has been used to reflect the overall milieu created by the comic book publisher in which characters, events, and premises from one product line appear in other product lines in a media franchise. By 1961, Marvel Comics writer and editor Stan Lee, working with"
"Isaac Asimov's Robots in Time Isaac Asimov's Robots in Time is a series of six science fiction novels featuring Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics. Written by American author William F. Wu as novels for young adults, they were the first series authorized to use Asimov's fictional universe after his death in 1992. Set on Earth, it tells the story of the Governors, a series of state-of-the-art administrative robots. Each Governor is physically composed of six smaller units and is responsible for single-handedly directing the operations of a human-inhabited city. When the Governor robots begin to fail mysteriously, Mojave Center"
"This is another example of Asimov's writing of robopsychology - personified by Susan Calvin - as running parallel to human psychology. At this point in ""I, Robot"", the reader has already seen hysteria and religious mania. <br> <br> Catch That Rabbit ""Catch that Rabbit"" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the February 1944 issue of ""Astounding Science Fiction"" and reprinted in the collections ""I, Robot"" (1950) and ""The Complete Robot"" (1982). The recurring team of Powell and Donovan are testing a new model of robot on an asteroid mining station."
"Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology is a history of science by Isaac Asimov, written as the biographies of over 1500 scientists. Organized chronologically, beginning with Imhotep (entry ""[1]"") and concluding with Stephen Hawking (entry ""[1510]""), each biographical entry is numbered, allowing for easy cross-referencing of one scientist with another. Nearly every biographical sketch contains links to other biographies. For example, the article about John Franklin Enders [1195] has the sentence ""Fleming's [1077] penicillin was available thanks to the work of Florey [1213] and Chain [1306] . . ."" This allows one"
"Eric Asimov Eric Asimov (born July 17, 1957) is an American wine critic and food critic for ""The New York Times"". Asimov was born in Bethpage, New York, the son of Stanley Asimov, former vice-president for editorial administration at ""Newsday"", and Ruth Asimov, a ceramic artist. He is a nephew of author Isaac Asimov and brother of ""San Francisco Chronicle"" writer Nanette Asimov. Asimov attended Wesleyan University, graduating in 1980. He did graduate work in American studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Asimov married fellow Wesleyan graduate Jacalyn Lee in 1989; the couple later divorced. Asimov has been"
"help their master. They looked like real women and could not only speak and use their limbs but were endowed with intelligence and trained in handwork by the immortal gods."" The words ""robot"" or ""android"" are not used to describe them, but they are nevertheless mechanical devices human in appearance. ""The first use of the word Robot was in Karel Čapek's play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) (written in 1920)"". Writer Karel Čapek was born in Czechoslovakia (Czech Republic). Possibly the most prolific author of the twentieth century was Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) who published over five-hundred books. Asimov is probably best"
"influential novels include ""Vril, the Power of the Coming Race"" (1871) by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, ""Erewhon"" (1872) by Samuel Butler, ""Looking Backward: 2000-1887"" (1888) by Edward Bellamy and ""News from Nowhere"" (1890) by William Morris In the U.S. the new trend of science fiction away from gadgets and space opera and toward speculation about the human condition was championed in pulp magazines of the 1940s by authors such as Robert A. Heinlein and by Isaac Asimov, who coined the term ""social science fiction"" to describe his own work. The term is not often used today except in the context of referring"
"named the book ""the single most useful publishing idea of the year"". The Rest of the Robots The Rest of the Robots is a collection of eight short stories and two full-length novels by American writer Isaac Asimov, published in 1964. The stories, centred on positronic robots, are all part of the ""Robot"" series, most of which take place in the ""Foundation"" universe. Another collection of short stories about robots, ""I, Robot"", was re-published in the previous year, which is why Asimov chose to title the collection as ""The Rest of the Robots"". None of the short stories in this"
"The Complete Robot The Complete Robot (1982) is a collection of 31 of the 37 science fiction short stories about robots by American writer Isaac Asimov, written between 1939 and 1977. Most of the stories had been previously collected in the books ""I, Robot"" and ""The Rest of the Robots"", while four had previously been uncollected and the rest had been scattered across five other anthologies. They share a theme of the interaction of humans, robots and morality, and put together tell a larger story of Asimov's fictional history of robotics. The stories are grouped into categories. Stories that are"
"VCR game. Elements from ""The Robots of Dawn"" (including the characters Giskard Reventlov and Kelden Amadiro) have been incorporated as well. Similar to the BBC2 version, Dr Gerrigel was replaced by a woman, named Sophia Quintana (after an unrelated character from ""Robots and Empire"") Cast of Isaac Asimov's Robots: The Caves of Steel The Caves of Steel is a science fiction novel by American writer Isaac Asimov. It is a detective story and illustrates an idea Asimov advocated, that science fiction can be applied to any literary genre, rather than just being a limited genre in itself. The book was"