* 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.

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 ( official web site )

* A Brief History of Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine

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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.

The unique feature of Asimov's robots are the Three Laws of Robotics, hardwired in a robot's positronic brain, which all robots in his fiction must obey / follow, and which ensure that the robot does not turn against its creators.

Bicentennial Man ( 1999 ) was the first theatrical movie adaptation of an Asimov story or novel, based on both Asimov's original short story and its novel expansion The Positronic Man.

* Galaxia, the ultimate destiny of humanity in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series, interconnected all human minds with the material of the galaxy, enabling them to use all its resources.

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 inspiration for the title of the book, and its three sections, was a quotation by Friedrich Schiller ( 1759 – 1805 ): " Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens.

" In Astounding Science Fiction, Villiers Gerson declared the novel successful, despite its " unidimensional " characters, due to " Asimov's skill as a story-teller of suspense.

This collection includes most of Asimov's robot stories, but not all ( primarily as he wrote additional robot stories after its publication ).

It was first 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.

Tiedemann's trilogy, set between The Robots of Dawn and its sequel Robots and Empire, attempts to update Asimov's work to reflect more recent scientific and science-fictional speculation, for example explaining the lack of nanotechnology in Asimov's robot-ridden society.

" Asimov's own stories leave her misanthropy largely unexplained, but Harlan Ellison's screenplay adaptation of I, Robot investigates its origins, in the end concludes that her attitudes are rather well-founded.

In Isaac Asimov's Foundation series, at its height the Galactic Empire had expanded to encompass the entire Milky Way Galaxy.

Prime Intellect operates under Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics, and it is its interpretation of these laws that results in the universe of immortality and fantasy.

Two suggested ultimate requirements for social robots are the Turing Test to determine the robot's communication skills and Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics for its behavior ( The usefulness to apply these requirements in a real-world application, especially in the case of Asimov's laws, still is disputed and maybe not possible at all ).

When several readers wrote letters of protest to Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine about its 1983 publication of Bishop's novella " The Gospel According to Gamaliel Crucis ," Isaac Asimov himself wrote an editorial defending the work and the editor's decision to publish it.

Reviews of the original eight-book series praised its scope and detailed worldbuilding, comparing it to Frank Herbert's Dune series, James Clavell's Shōgun and Isaac Asimov's Foundation series.

The stories, which comprise its first half, are short pieces which had remained uncollected at the time of Asimov's death.

Each robot is given a designation based on its class ( for example D-84 is a Dum class robot and SV-7 is a Super-Voc ) and is programmed with a variant on Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics.

* " Knossos in its Glory ", Asimov's eighth story, was written in November 1938.

Along with these serious works, he also maintains a human quality ; one which he lets run free in Isaac Asimov's Treasury of Humor and its sequel, Asimov Laughs Again.