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If Isaac Asimov’s family had not immigrated to America, Asimov speculated he would have died a Soviet soldier during World War II. In the days of socialist realism, ...
In his 1983 essay, Asimov describes "an essential side product, the mobile computerized object." But here again, he's referring not to phones or tablets but to robots that'll be used in the home.
Isaac Asimov's true cause of death wasn't revealed until 2002. Although the family considered telling the world Asimov had AIDS, his doctors dissuaded him—the general public was still fearful of ...
Isaac Asimov was one of America’s most prolific and best-loved science ... He was born in 1920 in Petrovichi, Russia, but his family emigrated to New York in 1923 where his father ran a ...
If there was one author Henry Bott disliked more than any other, it was Isaac Asimov. Bott, a book reviewer for the science fiction publication Imagination, had spent years lobbing insults at the ...
What Isaac Asimov Can Teach Us About AI The science-fiction writer imagined artificial intelligence—and what it might want—long before this uncanny reality ever became our own. By Jeremy Dauber ...
Isaac Clarke’s Fractured Family and Childhood Explained By the late 23rd century in the Dead Space universe, humanity had begun to colonize numerous worlds and moons beyond the Sol system.
Isaac Asimov at the ‘New York is Book County’ fair, 1990. Photo by Getty Images. ... Rep. Max Miller says driver called him a ‘dirty Jew’ and threatened to kill his family.
The Book Club: An Asimov AI tale, a ramen-shop fantasy and more reader reviews The fantasy elements of “Water Moon” were incorporated matter-of-factly and the main characters intrigued ...