Isaac Asimov

Dr. Isaac Asimov (c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992, Russian ????? ?????? IPA: {{IPA| /ˈaɪz?k ˈæzɪmˌɔf/}}) was a Russian-born American author and biochemist, a highly successful and exceptionally prolific writer best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. Asimov's most famous work is the Foundation Series, which he later combined with two of his other series, the Galactic Empire Series and Robot series. He also wrote mysteries and fantasy, as well as a great amount of non-fiction. Asimov wrote or edited over 500 volumes and an estimated 90,000 letters or postcards, and he has works in every major category of the Dewey Decimal System except Philosophy. Asimov was by general consensus a master of the science-fiction genre and, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke, was considered to be one of the "Big Three" science-fiction writers during his lifetime.

Selected bibliography

In addition, see the complete bibliography. Asimov aspired to write 500 books but did not quite reach that total; he wrote over 463 titles. If all titles, charts, and edited collections are counted, there are currently 509 items in his complete bibliography. Asimov could have written an Opus 400, which would have been a celebration of his 400th title; the bibliography lists only up to his commemorative Opus 300.

Related Topics:
Complete bibliography - Opus 300

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Science fiction

"Greater Foundation" series

• The Robot series:
• The Caves of Steel (1954), ISBN 0553293400 (first Elijah Baley SF-crime novel)
• The Naked Sun (1957), ISBN 0553293397 (second Elijah Baley SF-crime novel)
• The Robots of Dawn (1983), ISBN 0553299492 (third Elijah Baley SF-crime novel)
• Robots and Empire (1985) (sequel to the Elijah Baley trilogy)
• The Positronic Man (1993) (with Robert Silverberg, a novel based on Asimov's earlier short story "The Bicentennial Man")
• Galactic Empire series:
• Pebble in the Sky (1950)
• The Stars, Like Dust (1951)
• The Currents of Space (1952)
• Foundation series:
• Foundation (1951), ISBN 0553293354
• Foundation and Empire (1952), ISBN 0553293370
• Second Foundation (1953), ISBN 0553293362
• Foundation's Edge (1982), ISBN 0553293389
• Foundation and Earth (1986), ISBN 0553587579
• Prelude to Foundation (1988), ISBN 0553278398
• Forward the Foundation (1993), ISBN 0385247931 (hardcover), ISBN 0553404881 (paperback)

Novels not part of a series

• The End of Eternity (1955)
• Fantastic Voyage (1966) (a novelization of the movie featuring a team of American scientists traveling within a human body)
• The Gods Themselves (1972)
• ' (1987) (not a sequel to the first Fantastic Voyage, but an independent story)
• Nemesis (1989)
• Nightfall (1990) (with Robert Silverberg, a novel based on the earlier short story)
• The Ugly Little Boy (1992) (with Robert Silverberg, a novel based on an earlier short story)

(While primarily independent, some of these novels have very minor connections to the Foundation series.)

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Short story collections

Also see List of short stories by Isaac Asimov

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• I, Robot (1950), ISBN 0553294385
• The Martian Way and Other Stories (1955)
• Earth Is Room Enough (1957)
• Nine Tomorrows (1959)
• The Rest of the Robots (1964)
• Nightfall and Other Stories (1969)
• The Early Asimov (1972)
• The Best of Isaac Asimov (1973)
• Buy Jupiter and Other Stories (1975)
• The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories (1976)
• The Complete Robot (1982)
• The Winds of Change and Other Stories (1983)
• Robot Dreams (1986)
• Azazel (1988)
• Gold (1990)
• Robot Visions (1990) ISBN 0-451-45064-7
• Magic (1995)

Mysteries

Novels

• The Death Dealers (1958) (later republished as A Whiff of Death)
• Murder at the ABA (1976) (also published as Authorized Murder)

Short story collections (Black Widowers and others)

• Asimov's Mysteries (1968)
• Tales of the Black Widowers (1974)
• More Tales of the Black Widowers (1976)
• Casebook of the Black Widowers (1980)
• Banquets of the Black Widowers (1984)
• The Best Mysteries of Isaac Asimov (1986)
• Puzzles of the Black Widowers (1990)
• Return of the Black Widowers (2003) contains stories uncollected at the time of Asimov's death, in addition to contributions by Charles Ardai and Harlan Ellison

Nonfiction

Popular science

• Adding a Dimension (1964)
• Asimov on Numbers (1959)
• Asimov's Chronology of Science and Discovery (1989, second edition extends to 1993)
• Asimov's Chronology of the World (1991)
• The Chemicals of Life (1954)
• The Clock We Live On (1959)
• The Collapsing Universe (1977) ISBN 0-671-81738-8
• The Earth (2004, revised by Richard Hantula)
• Exploring the Earth and the Cosmos (1982)
• The Human Brain (1964)
• Inside the Atom (1956)
• Isaac Asimov's Guide to Earth and Space (1991)
• The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science (1965)
• Jupiter (2004, revised by Richard Hantula)
• Life and Energy (1962)
• The Neutrino (1966)
• Our World in Space (1974)
• Quasar, Quasar, Burning Bright (1977)
• Science, Numbers and I (1968)
• The Secret of The Universe (1990)
• The Solar System and Back (1970)
• The Sun (2003, revised by Richard Hantula)
• The Sun Shines Bright (1981)
• ' (1966)
• Venus (2004, revised by Richard Hantula)
• Views of the Universe (1981)
• Words of Science and the History Behind Them (1959)
• The World of Carbon (1958)
• The World of Nitrogen (1958)

Annotations

• Asimov's Annotated "Don Juan"
• Asimov's Annotated "Paradise Lost"
• Asimov's Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan
• The Annotated "Gulliver's Travels"

Guides

• Asimov's Guide to the Bible, vols I and II (1981), ISBN 0-517-34582-X
• Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare

Other

• Opus 100 (1969)
• The Sensuous Dirty Old Man (1971)
• Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (1972)
• Opus 200 (1979)
• Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts (1979)