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According to his autobiographical writings Asimov included the First Law's " inaction " clause because of Arthur Hugh Clough's poem " The Latest Decalogue ", which includes the satirical lines " Thou shalt not kill, but needst not strive / officiously to keep alive ".
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According to Isaac Asimov, Gauss was once interrupted in the middle of a problem and told that his wife was dying.
According to the original Foundation Trilogy ( 1951 ), Asimov states ( by way of the Encyclopedia Galactica ), "... the impossibility of proper administration ... under the uninspired leadership of the later Emperors was a considerable factor in the Fall.
According to Asimov, many of the inhabitants of this sector were tall Northerner yellowhairs, implying that they were people of what we call Nordic ancestry.
According to Asimov, the premise was based on ideas set forth in Edward Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, and was invented spontaneously on his way to meet with editor John W. Campbell, with whom he developed the concept.
According to his widow Janet Asimov ( in her biography of Isaac, It's Been a Good Life ), he had no idea how to continue after Foundation and Earth, so he started writing the prequels.
According to the first book's introduction Allen devised the New Laws in discussion with Asimov himself.
According to the foreword in Robot Visions, Asimov was approached to write a story titled " Bicentennial Man " for a science fiction collection, along with a number of other authors who would do the same, in honor of the bicentennial of the United States.
According to his autobiography In Memory Yet Green, Asimov modeled the Mule's physical appearance on Leonard Meisel, a friend at the World War II-era Navy Yard in Philadelphia.
According to Isaac Asimov, who considered Gunther " a good friend ," Gunther " felt that civilization was a product of the Old World and could not flourish indigenously in the New.
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.
* Close Encounters With the Deity ( 1986 ), includes the novella “ The Gospel According to Gamaliel Crucis ” and thirteen stories from 1979-1986 with an introduction by Isaac Asimov
According to Asimov's autobiography, Campbell asked Asimov to write the story after discussing with him a quotation from Ralph Waldo Emerson:
According to Isaac Asimov, although Janet Asimov did 90 % of the work, his " name was wanted on the book for the betterment of sales he went over the manuscript and polished it a bit.
According to Isaac Asimov, although Janet Asimov did 90 % of the work, his " name was wanted on the book for the betterment of sales he went over the manuscript and polished it a bit.
According to N-Space, the wings and the method of self-propelled flying featured in the novel were suggested by Isaac Asimov.
According to his autobiography In Memory Yet Green, Asimov coined the name in imitation of UNIVAC, an early mainframe computer.
According to Asimov, a book named Murder at Frankfurt had been written, placing a fictional mystery story at the Frankfurt Book Fair ( Germany ).
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