* Asimov's Science Fiction, an American science fiction magazine named after Isaac Asimov

As described in Isaac Asimov's autobiography In Memory Yet Green, the Futurians spun off from the Greater New York Science Fiction Club ( headed by Sam Moskowitz, later an influential SF editor and historian ) over ideological differences, with the Futurians wishing to take a more overt political stance.

Asimov's Chronology of Science and Discovery, Harper & Row, 1989.

It was anthologised by Groff Conklin in The Best of Science Fiction, the first of Asimov's stories to have been reprinted, and was later included in The Early Asimov ( in 1972, along with a very brief history of its origins ), The Asimov Chronicles in 1989 and in volume 2 of The Complete Stories in 1992.

Baird Searles, in Asimov's Science Fiction ( April 1984 ), says " the book lies in the uneasy boundary between surrealism and fantasy, given an odd literary status by its masquerade as a book of fact ".

During that period, he also edited Grosset & Dunlap's Science Fiction Classics series, which he conceived as an inexpensive alternative to hard-to-find small-press editions of such titles as Robert A. Heinlein's Beyond This Horizon and Isaac Asimov's I, Robot, although the first title in the series ( Henry Kuttner's Fury ) was that story's first book publication.

In addition, he is the author of the monthly " SF Convention Calendar " in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, and his flyer racks (" Filthy boards ") are seen at conventions all over the East Coast.

* In Brian Stableford's science fiction story, “ The Philosopher ’ s Stone ”, published in the July 2008 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction, Kelley and Dee appear in a fictionalized version of their meeting and beginning collaboration.

The concept and name of the Encyclopædia Galactica first appeared in Isaac Asimov's short story " Foundation " ( Astounding Science Fiction, May 1942 ), later republished as " The Encyclopædists " in the short story collection Foundation ( 1951 ).

MacLeod's novella The Summer Isles ( Asimov's Science Fiction Oct / Nov 1998 ) won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History, Short Form and the World Fantasy Award for Best Novella.

The sequel was published in the October / November 2007 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction.

He is notable for writing science fiction with sports themes ; " Home Team Advantage ", first appearing in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine in 1977, has been anthologized a number of times.

Cover for an issue of Asimov's Science Fiction.

Asimov's Science Fiction began life as the digest-sized Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine ( or IASFM for short ) in 1977.

The magazine was sold to Bantam Doubleday Dell in January 1992, a few months before Asimov's death, and the title changed to Asimov's Science Fiction.

Asimov's Science Fiction celebrated its thirtieth anniversary in 2007, with an anthology edited by the magazine's current editor, Sheila Williams.

* Asimov's Science Fiction ( official web site )

* A Brief History of Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine

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Their homeworld, Hearth, is a city-planet similar to Asimov's Trantor, albeit populated by tripodal aliens.

In Asimov's Empire and Foundation series, the capital planet Trantor of the galactic empire is a completely built-up planet, covered in its entirety with tall buildings and subterranean structures.

* Isaac Asimov's Encyclopedia Galactica as presented in The Foundation Series is an attempt to compile all human knowledge in order to preserve it following the collapse of the Galactic Empire in the far future.

* Isaac Asimov's story " The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline " is a fictional research paper about a compound that dissolves before being added to water that cites only and entirely false sources.

Gaia is depicted as a mysterious planet in Isaac Asimov's science fiction ' Foundation's Edge '.

Proteus is the name of the submarine in the original story by Otto Klement and Jay Lewis Bixby, which became the basis for the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage and Issac Asimov's novelization.

In Isaac Asimov's novel Foundation and Empire, there is a mention of the myriaton.

There is a reference back to the events of Asimov's novel Pebble in the Sky: we learn that the restoration of Earth's soil was indeed attempted but was abandoned.

This danger is part of the conclusion to Asimov's book The End of Eternity, in which " Project Eternity " ( which manipulated human history to maintain human comfort ) had to be destroyed to undo that same extraterrestrial disaster -— extraterrestrials giving humanity no hope of expansion, at which point the birth rate fell, and humanity became extinct.

Orson Scott Card remarked favorably on the novel, noting that although it was " all talk, no action -- but Asimov's talk is action.

In Foundation's Triumph, the last book in the Second Foundation Trilogy authorized by Asimov's estate, another possible future for the Galaxy is discussed.

Trantor is a fictional planet in Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series and Empire series of science fiction novels.

Coruscant is one of the more convincing images on screen we have today of Isaac Asimov's conception of the world-girdling city of Trantor.

Asimov's Trantor thus differs from Coruscant in that Trantor is more practically adapted to inclement weather, although weather control devices are used on both planets.

The series is set in the same universe as Asimov's first published novel, Pebble in the Sky, although Foundation takes place approximately ten thousand years later.

There is also another set of novels by various authors ( Isaac Asimov's Robot City, Robots and Aliens and Robots in Time series ), loosely connected to the Robots Series, but containing many inconsistencies with Asimov's books, which are not generally considered canon.

The Galactic Empire series ( also called the Empire novels or trilogy ) is a science fiction sequence of three of Isaac Asimov's earliest novels, and extended to one short story.

The so-called New Laws are similar to Asimov's originals with the following differences: the First Law is modified to remove the " inaction " clause, the same modification made in " Little Lost Robot "; the Second Law is modified to require cooperation instead of obedience ; the Third Law is modified so it is no longer superseded by the Second ( i. e., a " New Law " robot cannot be ordered to destroy itself ); finally, Allen adds a Fourth Law which instructs the robot to do " whatever it likes " so long as this does not conflict with the first three laws.

His name is derived from Isaac Asimov's Lucky Starr series and the " Lone Star State " of Texas, as well as being a parody on the last names of the two heroes of Star Wars, Solo ( Lone ) and Skywalker ( Star ).

* In Isaac Asimov's novel The Gods Themselves, Selene Lindstrom, is a major character of the third part, which occurs on the Moon.

It is eventually discovered that the bacterial life on Erythro forms a collective organism that possesses a form of consciousness and telepathy ( a concept similar to the Gaia of Asimov's Foundation series ).