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* 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 ( ISSN 1065-2698 ) is an American science fiction magazine which publishes science fiction and fantasy and perpetuates the name of author and biochemist Isaac Asimov.
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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According to Krugman, his interest in economics began with Asimov's Foundation novels, in which the social scientists of the future use ' Psychohistory ' to attempt to save civilization.
Elephant jokes began circulation primarily amongst schoolchildren, and have been discovered afresh by subsequent generations of children, remaining, in Isaac Asimov's words " favorites of youngsters and of unsophisticated adults ".

Asimov's and life
Among the dystopias, for example, Isaac Asimov's The Caves Of Steel ( 1954 ) portrays the deadly effects on human life of the super-city of the future ; ;
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 ).
The Earth Similarity Index, a scale used in planetary science, includes within its classification of habitable planets ( hClass ) a " Class M ", where the " M " stands for mesoplanet ( not to be confused with Asimov's mesoplanet proposal ), i. e., a planet with moderate ( as necessary for liquid water ) temperatures, more technically speaking: the thermal surface requirements necessary to support complex ( multicellular ) Earth-like life.
Asimov's short story " Gold ", one of the last he wrote in his life, describes the efforts of fictional computer animators to create a " compu-drama " from the novel's second section.
The epilogue contains a significant new revelation about Asimov's life.
Many regard some of the thoughts and opinions expressed by Seldon in this book as autobiographical ; a double reading of Forward the Foundation may shed light on Asimov's inner thoughts at the end of his life.
Works such as C. S. Lewis's 1943 Perelandra and Isaac Asimov's 1954 Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus drew from a vision of a Cambrian-like Venus covered by a near-planet-wide ocean filled with exotic aquatic life.

Asimov's and Isaac
* In Isaac Asimov's Robot series, Earth's population lives in large hyperstructures simply called Cities.
* In the Star Wars prequels, the galactic capital planet Coruscant has buildings many miles tall, and approaches the completely built-over condition of Trantor in Isaac Asimov's classic Foundation trilogy ( Note: due to this, Coruscant was originally to be named Jhantor but was eventually renamed Coruscant ).
* Asimov's SF Adventure Magazine, a short-lived American science fiction magazine named after Isaac Asimov
Cyberpunk plots often center on a conflict among hackers, artificial intelligences, and megacorporations, and tend to be set in a near-future Earth, rather than the far-future settings or galactic vistas found in novels such as Isaac Asimov's Foundation or Frank Herbert's Dune.
Isaac Asimov's short story " The Bicentennial Man " explored cybernetic concepts.
* 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 '.
< p >— Isaac Asimov, Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare, pg vii, Avenal Books, 1970 </ p >
As in Isaac Asimov's earlier Foundation series, humanity has colonized a galaxy in which there are no competing intelligent species.
In Isaac Asimov's novel Foundation and Empire, there is a mention of the myriaton.
Like Isaac Asimov's Foundation series, The Martian Chronicles follows a " future history " structure.
In the late 1990s, he wrote Foundation's Fear, one of an authorized sequel trilogy to Isaac Asimov's Foundation series.
* Aurora ( planet ), a world in Isaac Asimov's fiction
* Bel Arvardan, in Isaac Asimov's novel Pebble in the Sky
* Bel Riose, in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series
* Isaac Asimov's Robots, Empire, and Foundation stories ( the links between many of the stories are a retcon )
Isaac Asimov's fictional Galactic Empire and Foundation series refer to Pax Trantorica and Pax Imperium.
* Isaac Asimov's short story " Sixty Million Trillion Combinations " featured a mathematician who suspected that his work on Goldbach's conjecture had been stolen.
Isaac Asimov's Book of facts ; Sky Watchers.
The episode " In Theory " traces Data's literary roots to Isaac Asimov's and Philip K. Dick's exploration of the nature of artificial intelligence and the nature of reality and humanity.
In his 1991 introduction to the novel, Card discussed the influence of Isaac Asimov's Foundation series on the novelette and novel.

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