He never learned how to swim or ride a bicycle, although he did learn to drive a car and found he enjoyed it. Army, serving for just under nine months before receiving a honorable discharge. After the war ended, he was drafted into the U.S. In between, he spent three years during World War II working at the Philadelphia Navy Yard's Naval Air Experimental Station.

He graduated from Columbia University in 1939 and took a Ph.D. He was born in Petrovichi, Russia, but his family migrated to the USA when he was three years old. His works have been published in nine of the ten major categories of the Dewey Decimal System (all except the 100s, Philosophy) His most famous novels are those based in the Foundation Universe including the Robot, Empire, and Foundation series.Īsimov was one of the most prolific writers of all time, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 9,000 letters and postcards. Clarke, was considered to be one of the 'Big Three' science-fiction writers during his lifetime. Popular science writings, guides to the bible and science, mystery novels, literature commentary (his works on Shakespeare) and history.Īsimov was by general consensus a master of the science-fiction genre and, along with Robert A. Isaac Asimov (2 January 1920 – 6 April 1992) was a Russian-born American Jewish author and biochemist, a highly successful and exceptionally prolific writer best known for his works of science fiction and for his many non-fiction books, including several genres: ' -Isaac AsimovĪ picture of Isaac Asimov as he is most recognizedĭr. That is what I want to be remembered for. However, my total corpus for quantity, quality and variety can be duplicated by no one else. Any single thing I have written can be paralleled or even surpassed by something someone else has done. What I want to be remembered for is no one book, or no dozen books. ' What I will be remembered for are the Foundation trilogy and the Three Laws of Robotics.

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