Porges read the works of such authors as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Saki, O. Henry, Thomas Henry Huxley, Samuel Johnson, G. K. Chesterton, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, H. G. Wells, Isaac Asimov, Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Dickens and Edgar Wallace.

Isaac Asimov called it " the best retelling of the Arthurian Saga I have ever read ", and Jean Auel noted " I loved this book so much I went out and bought it for a friend, and have told many people about it.

#*" People Like Us ," ( ss ) Asimov ’ s Sept. 1989 ; read online

#*" Always True to Thee, in My Fashion ," ( ss ) Asimov ’ s Jan. 1997 ; read online

#*" Nano Comes to Clifford Falls ," ( ss ) Asimov ’ s July 2006 ; read online

" However, Bantam Books persisted, and at a meeting with Marc Jaffe and Marcia Nassiter on April 21, 1965, Asimov agreed to read the screenplay.

Asimov also explored the idea of the cyborg in relation to robots in his short story " Segregationist ", collected in The Complete Robot.

* In " Heredity " ( 1941 ), a short story by Isaac Asimov, twin brothers who have been raised separately on Earth and Ganymede must work together to operate a Martian fungus farm.

Isaac Asimov said that, from the time of his first story, it was accepted that Heinlein was the best science fiction writer in existence.

Isaac Asimov and Carl Sagan consider the latter work the first science fiction story.

* " Strikebreaker " ( short story ), science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov, first published in the January 1957 issue of The Original Science Fiction Stories

Isaac Asimov, whose specialties included both science fiction and humor and who was a self-described " punster ", wrote a short story called " Shah Guido G .", referring to the story's Atlantean ruler.

A popular science fiction story is Nightfall by Isaac Asimov.

*" Franchise " ( short story ), a 1955 short story by Isaac Asimov

* Marooned Off Vesta, first published short story by Isaac Asimov

The term " Microcomputer " came into popular use after the introduction of the minicomputer, although Isaac Asimov used the term microcomputer in his short story " The Dying Night " as early as 1956 ( published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in July that year ).

*" Runaround ", a short story by Isaac Asimov, is set in this year.

*" Evidence " ( short story ) ( 1946 ), a short story by Isaac Asimov

Trantor was first mentioned in a short story by Asimov, ' Black Friar of the Flame ', later collected as The Early Asimov, Volume 1.

Another short story ( found in The Early Asimov anthology ), " Mother Earth ", is set about a thousand years before the robot novels, when the Spacer worlds chose to become separated from Earth.

Shortly before his death in 1992, Asimov approved an outline for three novels ( Caliban, Inferno, Utopia ) by Roger MacBride Allen, set between Robots and Empire and the Empire series, telling the story of the terraforming of the Spacer world Inferno, and about the robot revolution started by creating a " No Law " Robot, and then New Law Robots.

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.

During World War II, he did aeronautical engineering for the U. S. Navy, also recruiting Isaac Asimov and L. Sprague de Camp to work at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in Pennsylvania.

Isaac Asimov believed that Heinlein made a swing to the right politically at the same time he married Ginny.

Related to the first, some stories are set in the very remote future and only deal with the author's contemporary history in a sketchy fashion, if at all ( e. g. the original Foundation Trilogy by Asimov ).

During World War II, de Camp served as a researcher at the Philadelphia Naval Yard along with his fellow writers Isaac Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein.

Asimov used the Roman Empire as the creative basis for the Foundation series, so Trantor is in some sense based on Rome at the height of the Roman Empire.

In 1982, Asimov gave in after a thirty-year hiatus, and wrote what was at the time a fourth volume: Foundation's Edge.

Then, at some unknown date ( prior to writing Foundation's Edge ) Asimov decided to merge the Foundation / Empire series with his Robot series.

In the spring of 1955, Asimov published an early timeline in the pages of Thrilling Wonder Stories magazine based upon his thought processes concerning the Foundation universe's history at that point in his life, which vastly differs from its modern-era counterpart.

After the publication of The Currents of Space in 1952, all three novels ( the only Asimov novels published at that time ) were collected into an omnibus titled Triangle.

* In The Last Question by Isaac Asimov, humanity progresses from a Type I to Type IV civilization, at first harnessing the power of a single star, eventually extracting energy on a cosmic scale.

In December 1953, Asimov was thumbing through a copy of the March 28, 1932 issue of Time when he noticed what looked at first glance like a drawing of the mushroom cloud of a nuclear explosion.

Asimov decided to turn the story into a novel, and on March 17 he left it with Walter I. Bradbury, the science fiction editor at Doubleday, to get his opinion.

( In Asimov's saga, the Galactic Era begins when the Galactic Empire is founded at an unknown date roughly 11, 000 years in the future: the timeline can be deduced from some hints Asimov dropped in his other science fiction works, including the Robot and Empire series.

It might be an accidental use of the same technology — Asimov hints at a connection in Foundation's Edge, but never definitely settled the point.

Cowell stated at a popular BBS convention they named the company as an homage to Asimov and because in his science fiction works US Robotics eventually became " the biggest company in the universe ".

Isaac Asimov, in his Robot series, imagined slidewalks as the potential method of transportation of practically the entire urban population on Earth, with expressways moving at up to equipped with seating accommodations for long distance travel, and with slower subsidiary tracks branching off from the main lines.

Isaac Asimov wrote a science column for the magazine that ran for 399 monthly issues without a break, from November 1958 to February 1992, ending two months before his death, at which time he was in such poor health that he dictated the final essay to his wife Janet Asimov.

In contemporary terms, however, Asimov wrote the Empire series in the early years of the Cold War, when a nuclear World War 3 seemed a realistic future ; one whose widespread and enduring radioactive contamination might be remembered, at least in folklore, for thousands of years.

Asimov felt that Gold's judgment was at fault by attributing too much power to the Constitution as a document.

Asimov later considered the premise highly improbable, and became annoyed at Gold for having persuaded him to insert the subplot into the novel.

Isaac Asimov, a student at Columbia at this time, remembers Urey lamenting, perhaps too vehemently, how pained he was that he could do nothing to help the war effort.