Isaac Asimov's short story " The Bicentennial Man " explored cybernetic concepts.

* Isaac Asimov's short story " Sixty Million Trillion Combinations " featured a mathematician who suspected that his work on Goldbach's conjecture had been stolen.

Most of Asimov's robot short stories are set in the first age of positronic robotics and space exploration.

One source of inspiration for Asimov's robots was the Zoromes, a race of mechanical men that featured in a 1931 short story called " The Jameson Satellite ", by Neil R. Jones.

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.

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 three Empire books, first published between 1950 and 1952, are Asimov's three earliest novels published in his own name ( David Starr, Space Ranger was published before The Currents of Space, but had been published under his pen name " Paul French ", and the Foundation books were collections of linked short stories rather than continuous novels ).

Isaac Asimov's fiction influenced the Star Wars and Star Trek films, but it was not until 1988 that a film version of one of his short stories ( Nightfall ) was produced.

The first major motion picture adaptation of a full-length Asimov work was Bicentennial Man ( 1999 ) ( based on the short stories " Bicentennial Man " and " The Positronic Man ", the latter co-written with Robert Silverberg ), although 2004's I, Robot, a film loosely based on Asimov's book of short stories by the same name, drew more attention.

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 ).

Olivaw also solves a case with Baley in Asimov's short story " Mirror Image.

Isaac Asimov's 1955 short story The Message depicts a time-travelling George Kilroy from the thirtieth century as the writer of the graffiti.

In Asimov's short story Breeds There a Man ...?, scientists are working on a force field ( defined as " Energy so channeled as to create a wall of matterless inertia ,") capable of protecting the population in case of a nuclear war.

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.

It is part of Asimov's Robot series, which consists of many short stories ( collected in I, Robot, The Rest of the Robots, and The Complete Robot ) and several novels ( The Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun, and The Robots of Dawn ).

Foundation's Friends, Stories in Honor of Isaac Asimov is a 1989 festschrift honoring science fiction author Isaac Asimov, in the form of an anthology of short stories set in Asimov's universes, particularly the Robot / Empire / Foundation universe.

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

Properly the novel is considered a fixup, as each of the ten chapters was first published as a short story, six of them in Asimov's Science Fiction, between 1989 and 2003.

* In Isaac Asimov's short story " Evidence " from 1946, in which a lawyer is suspected of being a humanoid robot, Dr. Calvin says that people have been observing humans all their lives, and therefore " it would be impossible to palm something merely nearly right off on us ".

These four stories are representative of Asimov's robot short stories, following his traditional themes of aversion and distrust of robots by the general public and issues arising from the robots ' interpretation of the Three Laws.

In the vague period between Asimov's near-future Robot short stories ( of the type collected in I, Robot ) and his novels, emigrants from Earth establish colonies on fifty worlds, the first being Aurora, the last Solaria, and the Hall of the Worlds located on Melpomenia, the nineteenth.

* 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.

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.

The Twentieth Century Fox motion picture I, Robot ( 2004 ) presented an original story set in Asimov's Robot universe featuring Dr Susan Calvin and other characters from Asimov's I, Robot collection.

* 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.

In the tribute anthology Foundation's Friends, Harrison wrote a story, The Fourth Law of Robotics, which featured the Stainless Steel Rat in the setting of Isaac Asimov's Robot series.

Some science fiction works ( Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy and Frank Herbert's Dune series are examples ) use quotations from an imagined future history of the period of their story.

However, the arrangement fell through, leaving Asimov's the only story actually completed for the project.

This story is set within Asimov's Foundation universe, which also includes his earlier Susan Calvin positronic robot tales.

The story of ComStar is heavily influenced by Isaac Asimov's Foundation books.

His tenure at Amazing Stories was notable for his purchase of Isaac Asimov's first professional story, " Marooned Off Vesta ".

* Asimov's Guide to the Bible, Random House, 1969

It was first published in the October 1951 issue of Galaxy Magazine and later appeared in Asimov's collections Nightfall and Other Stories ( 1969 ) and The Best of Isaac Asimov ( 1973 ).

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.

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

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 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 ).