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Born
1920
Birthplace
Smolensk Oblast Russia
Nationality
United States of America
Religion
Judaism Atheism
Gender
Male
Parents
Judah Asimov Anna Rachel Berman Asimov
Children
Robyn Asimov David Asimov
Profession
Writer Novelist Actor Author Historian Professor Essayist Science writer Science-fiction writer Biochemist
Series Written
The Foundation Trilogy The Foundation Series Lucky Starr series Isaac Asimov's Robot City Norby Chronicles Trantorian Empire F&SF Essay Collections Young... Black Widowers Elijah Bailey / R. Daneel Olivaw Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy Fantastic Voyage
Works
Author! Author! Gimmicks Three Legal Rites Foundation Foundation and Empire Half-Breed Half-Breeds on Venus The Instability Heredity Breeds There a Man...? Light Verse Hostess Evidence The Evitable Conflict Mother Earth Robbie Lucky Starr and the Big Sun of Mercury The Last Trump Opus 100 The Portable Star The Return of the Black Widowers Nightfall Life and Energy I, Robot Asimov on Science Fiction Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain The Best of Isaac Asimov Murder at the ABA C-Chute Isaac Asimov's Robot City: Prodigy Second Foundation The Robots of Dawn The Gods Themselves The Heavenly Host A Choice of Catastrophes Isaac Asimov's Treasury of Humor The Winds of Change and Other Stories Robot AL-76 Goes Astray Victory Unintentional What's in a Name? Asimov's Sherlockian limericks The Naked Sun Asimov's Guide to the Bible Homo Sol In a Good Cause- The Acquisitive Chuckle The Obvious Factor The Curious Omission The Sun Shines Bright Isaac Asimov's Robot City: Cyborg A Statue for Father Take a Match What is This Thing Called Love? The Proper Study Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus The Message Adding a Dimension Marching In The Secret Sense The Positronic Man Out of the Everywhere Casebook of the Black Widowers Asimov's Chronology of the World The Last Answer Sally Robot Dreams Exploring the Earth and the Cosmos Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids The Fun They Had The Billiard Ball The Early Asimov Magic The Stars, Like Dust Nine Tomorrows Foundation and Earth The Planet That Wasn't The Human Body: Its Structure and Operation Twentieth Century Discovery Of Matters Great and Small Asimovs Dict Scientific Term Asimov's Mysteries Lenny Galley Slave Spell My Name with an S Robot Visions The Gentle Vultures Fantastic Voyage The Greeks; a great adventure A grossery of limericks Prisoners of the stars Far as Human Eye Could See Isaac Asimov's Robot City: Perihelion The Caves of Steel I, Robot: The Illustrated Screenplay Tales of the Black Widowers Azazel Think! Escape! The Currents of Space Catch that Rabbit The Ugly Little Boy David Starr, Space Ranger Through a Glass, Clearly Our Angry Earth More Tales of the Black Widowers In Memory Yet Green The Martian Way Norby and the Court Jester The Universe From Flat Earth to Quasar: A Comprehensive Survey of Man's Achievements in Astronomy Realm of Numbers Have You Seen These? The child of time Building blocks of the universe The stars, like dust Of time and space and other things Black Friar of the Flame Trends Kid Stuff Youth The Key Word and Other Mysteries Foundation's Edge Prelude to Foundation Isaac Asimov's Robot City: Odyssey Isaac Asimov's Robot City: Suspicion Isaac Asimov's Robot City: Refuge The Secret of the Universe It's Such a Beautiful Day The Tercentenary Incident Blind Alley Silly Asses Christmas on Ganymede The Little Man on the Subway Robots and Empire Pebble in the Sky Forward the Foundation Isaac Asimov's Guide to Earth and Space The End of Eternity The Death Dealers Nightfall and Other Stories The Complete Robot The Subatomic Monster Quasar, Quasar, Burning Bright The Rest of the Robots The Complete Stories The Solar System and Back Earth Is Room Enough Fact and Fancy Gold View from a height The Martian Way and Other Stories The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov The Relativity of Wrong Buy Jupiter and Other Stories The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories Lecherous Limericks The Hugo Winners Before the Golden Age Atom: Journey Across the Subatomic Cosmos Views of the Universe Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science In Joy Still Felt The Union Club Mysteries Nemesis It's Been a Good Life Norby, the Mixed-Up Robot Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions Banquets of the Black Widowers Puzzles of the Black Widowers Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare The Alternate Asimovs Lucky Starr and the Rings of Saturn Lucky Starr and the Moons of Jupiter Rain, Rain, Go Away What If- Let's Not Risk Founding Father Each an Explorer Left to Right The Feeling of Power The Talking Stone The Machine that Won the War Not Final The Life and Times of Multivac Death Sentence The Dying Night —That Thou art Mindful of Him No Connection The Magnificent Possession Everest Key Item A Boy's Best Friend Birth of a Notion The Immortal Bard Unto the Fourth Generation Question Segregationist Eyes Do More Than See The Weapon Too Dreadful to Use The Imaginary The Pause Waterclap Lest We Remember The Last Question Strikebreaker True Love Profession The Monkey's Finger Gold Flies Little Lost Robot Runaround Obituary Green Patches Stranger In Paradise The Singing Bell Let's Get Together History Anniversary Shah Guido G. Pâté de Foie Gras Feminine Intuition The Dead Past All the Troubles of the World I'm in Marsport Without Hilda Franchise Living Space Mirror Image Reason First Law Someday Nobody Here But- Satisfaction Guaranteed No Refuge Could Save The Callistan Menace Buy Jupiter Cal My Son, the Physicist Point of View Liar! Button, Button Insert Knob A in Hole B Jokester Ring Around the Sun The Deep The Hazing Sucker Bait The Red Queen's Race Marooned Off Vesta The Bicentennial Man Robot Dreams Hell-Fire Dreaming Is a Private Thing The Dust of Death I Just Make Them Up, See! For the Birds Time Pussy Old-fashioned Super-Neutron The Winnowing Hallucination The Greatest Asset 2430 A.D. Darwinian Pool Room Day of the Hunters A Loint of Paw The Watery Place Only a Trillion The Up-To-Date Sorcerer Extraterrestrial Civilizations I. Asimov: A Memoir How to Enjoy Writing: A Book of Aid and Comfort The Roving Mind Futuredays: A Nineteenth Century Vision of the Year 2000 Science Past - Science Future The Left Hand of the Electron Understand Physics: Light, Magnetism, and Electricity Understand Physics: Motion, Sound, and Heat Understand Physics: The Electron, Proton, and Neutron The Clock We Live On The Genetic Code The Neutrino Realm of Measure A Short History of Chemistry The Wellsprings of Life How Do We Find Out About Black Holes? Counting the Eons The Chemicals of Life The Near East: 10,000 Years of History Good Taste Blank! Does a Bee Care? Exile to Hell Yours, Isaac Asimov Asimov's galaxy Asimov's New guide to science Atom Benjamin's Bicentennial blast The collected fiction of Isaac Asimov The complete stories The currents of space The dream Eight stories from the rest of the robots Environments out there The far ends of time and earth The foundation trilogy The genetic effects of radiation In the beginning The key word and other mysteries Life and time The new intelligent man's guide to science Opus 300 Past, present, and future Photosynthesis The road to infinity Robots, machines in man's image Science, numbers, and I A short history of biology Today and tomorrow and The tragedy of the moon Triangle Understanding physics The universe A whiff of death Words from the myths. The world of carbon The world of nitrogen Ph As in Phony Truth to Tell Go, Little Book! Early Sunday Morning The Pointing Finger Miss What? The Lullaby of Broadway Yankee Doodle Went to Town Out of Sight Understanding Physics The Disappearing Man and Other Mysteries The Best Mysteries of Isaac Asimov X Stands for Unknown
Credits
I, Robot , Nightfall , Bicentennial Man
Award
Hugo Award for Best Novelette Locus Award for Best Short Story Nebula Award for Best Novelette Hugo Award for Best Non-Fiction Book Locus Award for Best Anthology Locus Award for Best Collection Hugo Award for Best Short Story Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel Locus Award for Best Novel Nebula Award for Best Novel Locus Award for Best Non-Fiction Nebula Award for Best Short Story Locus Award for Best Art Book Hugo Award for Best Novel National Book Award for Nonfiction
Year(s)
1992, 1984, 1976, 1985, 1975, 1990, 1986, 1987, 1980, 1989, 1973, 1972, 1981, 1995, 1996, 1983, 1994, 1965, 1991, 1977, 1982, 1961, 1993, 1988
Nominated For
Gold Potential The Bicentennial Man Dune Encyclopedia Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 11 —That Thou art Mindful of Him The Asimov Chronicles Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 13 Robot Dreams In Memory Yet Green Prelude to Foundation The Gods Themselves Foundation and Earth In Joy Still Felt Robot Dreams The Robots of Dawn Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 10 I. Asimov: A Memoir Foundation's Edge The New Hugo Winners Forward the Foundation Robots and Empire Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 18 Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 14 Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 8 Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 19 The Winds of Change and Other Stories I, Robot: The Illustrated Screenplay Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 7 Founding Father The Mammoth Book of Vintage Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1950s The 13 Crimes of Science Fiction The New Hugo Winners, Volume II The Hugo Winners, Volume 4: 1976-1979 Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 23 Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 20 Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 6 Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 21 Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 15 The Hugo Winners, Volume 5 Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 9 Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 5 Eyes Do More Than See The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science The Last Answer Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 25 Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 16 Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 12
Year
1967, 1976, 1973, 1983, 1972, 1966, 1987, 1995, 1977, 1992, 1975
Honored For
The Bicentennial Man The Gods Themselves Foundation's Edge The Foundation Trilogy I. Asimov: A Memoir Gold Robot Dreams
Institution
Columbia University
Employer
Boston University
Cause Of Death
Heart failure Renal failure AIDS Complications of HIV infection
Place Of Death
New York City New York United States of America North America
Date Of Death
1992-04-06
Also Known As
Isaak Judah Ozimov Paul French George E. Dale Asimov Dr. "A" H. B. Ogden The Human Typewriter isaac_asimov

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