ISAK ASIMOV( sve na engleskom)
Isaac Asimov
Asimov began contributing stories to science fiction magazines in 1939,
"Marooned Off Vesta" being his first published story, written when he
was 18. Two and a half years later, he published his 32nd short story,
"Nightfall" (1941), which has been described as one of "the most famous
science-fiction stories of all time" [2]. In 1968 the Science Fiction
Writers of America voted "Nightfall" the best science fiction short
story ever written [3]. In his short anthology Nightfall and Other
Stories he wrote, "The writing of 'Nightfall' was a watershed in my
professional career ... I was suddenly taken seriously and the world of
science fiction became aware that I existed. As the years passed, in
fact, it became evident that I had written a 'classic'".
"Nightfall" is an archetypical example of social science fiction, a
term coined by Asimov to describe a new trend in the 1940's, led by
authors including Asimov and Heinlein, away from gadgets and space
opera and toward speculation about the human condition.
n 1942 he began his Foundation stories�later collected in the
Foundation Trilogy: Foundation (1951), Foundation and Empire (1952),
and Second Foundation (1953)�which recount the collapse and rebirth of
a vast interstellar empire in a universe of the future. Taken together,
they are his most famous work of science fiction, along with the Robot
Series. Many years later, he continued the series with Foundation's
Edge (1982) and Foundation and Earth (1986) and then went back to
before the original trilogy with Prelude to Foundation (1988) and
Forward the Foundation (1992). The series features his fictional
science of Psychohistory in which the future course of the history of
large populations can be predicted.
His robot stories�many of which were collected in I, Robot (1950)�were
begun at about the same time. They promulgated a set of rules of ethics
for robots (see Three Laws of Robotics) and intelligent machines that
greatly influenced other writers and thinkers in their treatment of the
subject. One such short story, "The Bicentennial Man", was made into a
movie starring Robin Williams.
The recent film I, Robot, starring Will Smith, was based on the
Hardwired script by Jeff Vintar with Asimov's ideas incorporated later
after acquiring the rights to the I, Robot title. It is not related to
the I, Robot script by Harlan Ellison, who collaborated with Asimov
himself to create a version that captured the spirit of the original.
Asimov is quoted as saying that Ellison's screenplay would lead to "the
first really adult, complex, worthwhile science fiction movie ever
made". The screenplay was published in book form in 1994, after hopes
of seeing it in film form were becoming slim. See: I, Robot, [4]
Besides movies, his Foundation and Robot stories have inspired other
derivative works of science fiction literature, many by well-known and
established authors such as Roger MacBride Allen, Greg Bear, and David
Brin. These appear to have been done with the blessing, and often at
the request of, Asimov's widow Janet Asimov.
In 1948 he also wrote a spoof science article, "The Endochronic
Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline". At the time, Asimov was
preparing for his own doctoral dissertation. Fearing a prejudicial
reaction from his Ph.D. evaluation board, he asked his editor that it
be released under a pseudonym, yet it appeared under his own name.
During his oral examination shortly thereafter, Asimov grew concerned
at the scrutiny he received. At the end of the examination, one
evaluator turned to him, smiling, and said "Mr. Asimov, tell us
something about the thermodynamic properties of the compound
thiotimoline". After a twenty-minute wait, he was summoned back into
the Examination Room and congratulated as "Dr. Asimov."
Extract from Wikipedia
Foundation 01 - Prelude To Foundation
Foundation 02 - Forward the Foundation
Foundation 03 - Foundation Foundation 04 - Foundation And Empire
Foundation 05 - Second Foundation
Foundation 06 - Foundation's Edge
Foundation 07 - Foundation And Earth
Foundation 08 - Foundation's Fear Catastrophes
Fantastic Voyage II - Destination Brain
Robot 02 - The Caves of Steel
Robot 03 - Naked Sun
Robot 04 - The Robots of Dawn
Robot 05 - Robots & Empire
Robot 06 - The Bicentennial Man
Robot 06 - The Stars Like Dust
Robot City 01 - Odyssey
Robot City 02 - Suspicion
Robot City 03 - Cyborg
Robot City 06 - Perihelion Robot Dreams
Robots & Aliens 3 - Intruder
Robots & Aliens 4 - Alliance
Robots In Time 1 - Predator
Robots In Time 3 - Warrio
The Fun They Had
The Gods Themselves
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