Foundation ; I, Robot
by Isaac Asimov
Foundation, I Robot by Isaac Asimov, Octopus Books, 1984, First Edition. This is a Collectible, Hardcover book and dust jacket. ISBN# 0706421973. The book is black paper over boards with silver design on the cover and silver lettering on the spine. The book binding and pages are upside down. One is correct, one is not. It, however, does not affect the books quality or readability. This collection includes the first volume in the Foundations trilogy, a landmark in imaginative science fiction, and winner of a Special Hugo Award as Best All Time Series in the realm of science and fantasy fiction. In Foundation, Asimov has conceived a whole new world for mankind set far in the future and spanning a period of more than a thousand years. He tells of life in the Galactic Empire, and of Hari Seldon's battle to prevent tens of thousands of years of anarchy through the creating of the Foundation. The entire frame of reference of today's science fiction robots owes more to Asimov than to any other single author. The Three Laws of Robotics formulated in I Robot, have since been adopted by the majority of science fiction writers. I, Robot is a masterly evocation of a future where robots are so sophisticated that man is threatened with redundancy . . .
Subjects
RELEASED1984
PUBLISHEROctopus Books
LENGTH298
LANGUAGEEN
Asimov was born sometime between October 4, 1919 and January 2, 1920 in Petrovichi in Smolensk Oblast, RSFSR (now Russia), the son of a Jewish family of millers. Although his exact date of birth is uncertain, Asimov himself celebrated it on January 2. His family emigrated to Brooklyn, New York and opened a candy store when he was three years old. He taught himself to read at the age of five. He began reading the science fiction pulp magazines that his family's store carried. Around the age of eleven, he began to write his own stories, and by age nineteen, he was selling them to the science fiction magazines. He graduated from Columbia University in 1939. He married Gertrude Blugerman in 1942. During World War II he worked as a civilian at the Philadelphia Navy Yard's Naval Air Experimental Station. After the war, he returned to Columbia University and earned a Ph.D. in biochemistry in 1948. He then joined the faculty of the Boston University School of Medicine until 1958, when he became a full-time writer. His first novel, [Pebble in the Sky](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL46402W), was published in 1950. He and his wife divorced in 1973, and he married Janet O. Jeppson the same year. He was a highly prolific writer, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 9,000 letters and postcards.
Foundation ; I, Robot
by Isaac Asimov
Foundation, I Robot by Isaac Asimov, Octopus Books, 1984, First Edition. This is a Collectible, Hardcover book and dust jacket. ISBN# 0706421973. The book is black paper over boards with silver design on the cover and silver lettering on the spine. The book binding and pages are upside down. One is correct, one is not. It, however, does not affect the books quality or readability. This collection includes the first volume in the Foundations trilogy, a landmark in imaginative science fiction, and winner of a Special Hugo Award as Best All Time Series in the realm of science and fantasy fiction. In Foundation, Asimov has conceived a whole new world for mankind set far in the future and spanning a period of more than a thousand years. He tells of life in the Galactic Empire, and of Hari Seldon's battle to prevent tens of thousands of years of anarchy through the creating of the Foundation. The entire frame of reference of today's science fiction robots owes more to Asimov than to any other single author. The Three Laws of Robotics formulated in I Robot, have since been adopted by the majority of science fiction writers. I, Robot is a masterly evocation of a future where robots are so sophisticated that man is threatened with redundancy . . .
Subjects
RELEASED1984
PUBLISHEROctopus Books
LENGTH298
LANGUAGEEN
Asimov was born sometime between October 4, 1919 and January 2, 1920 in Petrovichi in Smolensk Oblast, RSFSR (now Russia), the son of a Jewish family of millers. Although his exact date of birth is uncertain, Asimov himself celebrated it on January 2. His family emigrated to Brooklyn, New York and opened a candy store when he was three years old. He taught himself to read at the age of five. He began reading the science fiction pulp magazines that his family's store carried. Around the age of eleven, he began to write his own stories, and by age nineteen, he was selling them to the science fiction magazines. He graduated from Columbia University in 1939. He married Gertrude Blugerman in 1942. During World War II he worked as a civilian at the Philadelphia Navy Yard's Naval Air Experimental Station. After the war, he returned to Columbia University and earned a Ph.D. in biochemistry in 1948. He then joined the faculty of the Boston University School of Medicine until 1958, when he became a full-time writer. His first novel, [Pebble in the Sky](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL46402W), was published in 1950. He and his wife divorced in 1973, and he married Janet O. Jeppson the same year. He was a highly prolific writer, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 9,000 letters and postcards.
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