Isaac Asimov died in 1992 at the age of seventy-two. Apart from his many world-famous science fiction works, Asimov also wrote highly successful detective mystery stories, a four-volume History of North America, a two-volume Guide to the Bible, a biographical dictionary, encyclopaedias, textbooks and an impressive list of books on many aspects of science, as well as two volumes of autobiography. With nearly five hundred books to his credit and several hundred articles, Asimov's output was prolific by any standards. He won the Hugo Award four times and the Nebula Award once. Thereafter he became a regular contributor to the leading SF magazines of the day including Astounding, Astonishing Stories, Super Science Stories and Galaxy. Increasingly, however, the pressure of chemical research conflicted with his aspirations in the literary field, and in 1958 he retired to fulltime authorship while retaining his connection with the university.Īsimov's fantastic career as a science fiction writer began in 1939 with the appearance of a short story, Marooned Off Vesta, in Amazing Stories. He graduated in chemistry and after a short spell in the Army he gained his doctorate in 1949 and qualified as an instructor in biochemistry at Boston University School of Medicine where he became Associate Professor in 1955, doing research in nucleic acid.

He then went on to Columbia University and resolved to became a chemist rather than follow the medical career his father had in mind for him. A remarkable memory helped him finish high school before he was sixteen. He grew up in Brooklyn where he went to grammar school and at the age of eight he gained his citizen papers. In Foundation, Asimov has written a timely and timeless novel of the best-and worst-that lies in humanity, and the power of even a few courageous souls to shine a light in a universe of darkness.Isaac Asimov, a world maestro of science fiction, was born in Russia near Smolensk in 1920 and brought to the United States by his parents three years later. The Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov are among the most influential in the history of science fiction, celebrated for their unique blend of breathtaking action, daring ideas, and extensive worldbuilding. To preserve knowledge and save humankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire-both scientists and scholars-and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for future generations. But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future-to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Readįor twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme.THE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THE APPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATION The first novel in Isaac Asimov’s classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series

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