Chemists, he noted, will read the word "unionized" as un-ion-ized (pronounced "un-EYE-en-ized"), meaning "(a chemical species) being in an electrically neutral state, as opposed to being an ion", while non-chemists will read the word as union-ized (pronounced "YOU-nien-ized"), meaning "(a worker or organization) belonging to or possessing a trade union".

[87] From 1985 until his death in 1992, he served as president of the AHA, an honorary appointment. Asimov attributed the lack of romance and sex in his fiction to the "early imprinting" from starting his writing career when he had never been on a date and "didn't know anything about girls". Asimov wrote a critical essay on Star Trek's scientific accuracy for TV Guide magazine. and "Evidence", Arkady Darell in Second Foundation, Elijah Baley in The Caves of Steel, and Hari Seldon in the Foundation prequels. March 14 is Albert Einstein’s birthday . It was just his natural ebullience.[275]. [283], An online exhibit in West Virginia University Libraries' virtually complete Asimov Collection displays features, visuals, and descriptions of some of his over 600 books, games, audio recordings, videos, and wall charts. There was also a short-lived Asimov's SF Adventure Magazine and a companion Asimov's Science Fiction Anthology reprint series, published as magazines (in the same manner as the stablemates Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine's and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine's "anthologies").[148]. Nor is there a great deal of local color or description of any kind.
[172] and Asimov's Chronology of the World (1991). Virtually all plot develops in conversation with little if any action. But as an independent, nonprofit media organization, our operations depend on the support of readers like you. "[270] Along with such figures as Bertrand Russell and Karl Popper, Asimov left his mark as one of the most distinguished interdisciplinarians of the 20th century. [262] (Tolkien said that he enjoyed Asimov's science fiction. It divides the year into four seasons (named A–D) of 13 weeks (91 days) each. [157] He encouraged other science fiction writers to write popular science, stating in 1967 that "the knowledgeable, skillful science writer is worth his weight in contracts", with "twice as much work as he can possibly handle". Laughing hysterically with relief, Asimov had to be led out of the room. He was president of the American Humanist Association. In many cultures, birthdays are celebrated with gifts, parties, or other special activities. They also feature his fictional science of psychohistory, in which the future course of the history of large populations can be predicted. Did you know that your browser is out of date? [111] Although Asimov did write several essays about psychology,[112] and forewords for the books The Humanist Way (1988) and In Pursuit of Truth (1982),[113] which were classified in the 100s category, none of his own books were classified in that category. To my way of thinking, the ordeal was necessary to make certain it would never happen again. [25][26], Asimov's family travelled to the United States via Liverpool on the RMS Baltic, arriving on February 3, 1923[27] when he was three years old. [174], Asimov was also a noted mystery author and a frequent contributor to Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. 7792 (2020): 614-616. A birthday is a time when a person acknowledges the anniversary of their birth. Unwilling to write only weak alien races, and concerned that a confrontation would jeopardize his and Campbell's friendship, he decided he would not write about aliens at all. [5] He also wrote hundreds of short stories, including the social science fiction novelette "Nightfall", which in 1964 was voted the best short science fiction story of all time by the Science Fiction Writers of America. Asimov addressed such criticism at the beginning of Nemesis: I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing—to be 'clear'. Why should I not use as my model what I consider the best? [121] He was sometimes criticized for the general absence of sex (and of extraterrestrial life) in his science fiction. In his first autobiography, he indicates his support for the safety of Israel, though insisting that he was not a Zionist. But that doesn't mean it's a month for commoners.

No matter how various the subject matter I write on, I was a science-fiction writer first and it is as a science-fiction writer that I want to be identified.

From then until his death, Asimov published several more sequels and prequels to his existing novels, tying them together in a way he had not originally anticipated, making a unified series. [117] At first his father forbade reading pulps as he considered them to be trash, until Asimov persuaded him that because the science fiction magazines had "Science" in the title, they must be educational. In May 1937 he first thought of writing professionally, and began writing his first science fiction story, "Cosmic Corkscrew" (now lost), that year. [44][45] In September 1945, he was drafted into the U.S. Army; if he had not had his birth date corrected while at school, he would have been officially 26 years old and ineligible.

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