![]() ![]() Apart from his world-famous science fiction, Asimov also wrote highly successful detective mystery stories, a four-volume History of North America, a two-volume Guide to the Bible, a biographical dictionary, encyclopaedias, and textbooks, as well as two volumes of autobiography. He won the Hugo Award four times and the Nebula Award once. A landmark of science fictions Golden Age, Isaac Asimovs Foundation Trilogy which comprises the novels Foundation, Foundation and Empire, and Second. ![]() Asimov wrote hundreds of short stories and novels, including the iconic I, Robot and Foundation. Thereafter he became a regular contributor to the leading SF magazines of the day. Asimov's career as a science fiction writer began in 1939 with the short story 'Marooned Off Vesta'. Foundation began as a series of short stories in Astounding Science Fiction magazine in the 1940s and eventually became a trilogy of books published in the 1950s. After a short spell in the army, he gained a doctorate and worked in academia and chemical research. ![]() He grew up in Brooklyn and attended Columbia University. Biography: Isaac Asimov was born in 1920 in Russia and was brought to the USA by his parents three years later. ![]()
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