Stanley Asimov, Author, Isaac Asimov, Author Doubleday Books $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-385-47622-5
Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) wrote 470 books on every subject from robots to Shakespeare and an estimated 90,000 letters, hundreds of which are collected here by his brother, an adjunct associate professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of...
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Isaac Asimov, Author Doubleday Books $16.95 (356p) ISBN 978-0-385-23312-5
The fifth novel in Asimov's popular Foundation series opens with second thoughts. Councilman Golan Trevize is wondering if he was right to choose a collective mind as the best possible future for humanity over the anarchy of contentious individuals,
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Isaac Asimov, Author HarperPrism $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-105205-7
Fantasy wasn't Asimov's forte, but that's not to say that this lightweight, posthumous gathering of previously uncollected stories and essays won't amuse casual readers and please the completist. The fiction here, mostly satirical, resembles Asimov's
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Isaac Asimov, Author HarperPrism $20 (345p) ISBN 978-0-06-105206-4
Asimov, who died in 1992 and whose influence can hardly be exaggerated, is ill-served by this work, two-thirds of which consists of book introductions and editorials he wrote for Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. The fiction included here,...
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Isaac Asimov, Author Doubleday Books $25 (562p) ISBN 978-0-385-41701-3
Although larded with thin filler material, Asimov's uneven posthumous autobiography also contains some of his liveliest, most incisive writing. The prolific SF novelist and nonfiction author, who died in 1992, discusses working in his father's candy
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Isaac Asimov, Author Doubleday Books $14 (560p) ISBN 978-0-385-42079-2
This collection of 40 stories, ranging from the mundane to the inspired, offers a sufficient variety to tempt both the newcomer and the devoted fan. The difficulties of day-to-day life for settlers on the planet Mars are revealed in the classic ``The
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Isaac Asimov, Author Doubleday Books $19.95 (253p) ISBN 978-0-385-26264-4
The fifth Black Widowers collection has stories from 1984 to 1989, 11 appearing originally in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine . Asimov again uses a real-life New York dining club as model for the Widowers. In every story a dinner guest is asked, ``Ho
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Isaac Asimov, Author Doubleday Books $16.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-385-19784-7
Asimov likes to boast that he seldom if ever revises his work, and as testimony to such heedless efficiency there is his mountain of some 300 booksfilled with reams of slapdash writing. It wasn't always so, as this volume of rejected first drafts...
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Isaac Asimov, Author Doubleday Books $21 (240p) ISBN 978-0-385-41693-1
In his 40th collection of essays, Asimov gathers 17 columns written during 1989-1990 for the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction that introduce, in his clear and amiable style, current thinking on cosmology, physics, astronomy and biological...
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Isaac Asimov, Author Doubleday Books $18.95 (332p) ISBN 978-0-385-23926-4
Twenty-one years ago when the movie Fantastic Voyage was released, Asimov was hired to do the novelization. The book was successful but, to Asimov, not satisfying, for ""I never felt it to be entirely mine.'' Now he has rewritten it his way, and it's
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Isaac Asimov, Author Doubleday $23.5 (415p) ISBN 978-0-385-24793-1
The late Grand Master of science fiction brings his most famous work, the epic Foundation series, to a posthumous close in this volume. Returning to the format of earlier books in the saga, he presents the story in discrete, novella-length segments,
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Isaac Asimov, Author Prometheus Books $32.98 (323p) ISBN 978-0-87975-540-9
In adventurous essays Asimov analyzes our fascination with show biz celebrities, explains the pagan origins of Valentine's Day, speculates on why the detective story first came to prominence in Britain and the U.S., and envisions the universe as ``a
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Isaac Asimov, Author Doubleday Books $17.95 (318p) ISBN 978-0-385-24120-5
The first issue of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine appeared in 1976, and it continues to thrive, each issue containing an editorial by the author, 66 of which are collected here. Using science fiction as a touchstone, the essays cover a...
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Isaac Asimov, Author Doubleday Books $18.95 (364p) ISBN 978-0-385-24792-4
When Eugenia Insigna of the Settlement Rotor, an independent space station, discovers an unknown red dwarf star two light years from Earth, she names it Nemesis. Led by Dr. Janus Pitt, Rotor and its population travel to the star to build a new,...
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Isaac Asimov, Author Doubleday Books $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-385-18946-0
This anthology contains a number of fine storiesvirtually a given with a volume of Hugo winners. Included are the honored tales from 1980, '81 and '82, among them twoeach by Gordon R. Dickson and George R. R. Martin, and one each by Barry Longyear,...
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Isaac Asimov, Author, D. F. Bach, Illustrator Dutton Books $21.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-525-24990-0
It takes our best science writers, plus readers current with the whimsical new language of particle physics, to keep up with the leapfrog pace of theory and observation today. Fortunately, Asimov does his part in this report on recent theoretical...
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Isaac Asimov, Author, Charles Ardai, Editor, Harlan Ellison, Introduction by , edited by Charles Ardai. Carroll & Graf/Penzler $24 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7867-1248-9
Fans of Asimov's Black Widower brain-teasers, which typically turn on wordplay and subtle observation, will welcome this sixth (and first posthumous) collection in this diverting series. The book includes Shamus nominee Ardai's choices of...
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Isaac Asimov, Author, Roy Allen, Author, Roger MacBride Allen, With Ace Books $9.95 (312p) ISBN 978-0-441-09079-2
Allen ( Ring of Charon ), with the imprimatur of the late SF legend, offers here a reflection on what would happen if robots did not follow Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics. Those Laws build into robots a code of behavior through which they cannot...
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Isaac Asimov, Author, Robert Silverberg, With Doubleday Books $150 (0p) ISBN 978-0-385-41626-9
This collaboration by two masters of the genre expands on Asimov's classic short story first published in 1941. Kalgash is a planet with six suns, a world where darkness is unnatural. Scientists realize that an eclipse--an event that occurs only...
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Isaac Asimov, Author, Robert Silverberg, With Doubleday Books $22.5 (259p) ISBN 978-0-385-26342-9
The third and final collaborative novel from Silverberg and the late Asimov ( Nightfall ; The Ugly Little Boy ) follows Asimov's classic story, ``The Bicentennial Man,'' step by step (whole sentences and paragraphs remain), adding extra scenes for...
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Isaac Asimov, Author, Robert Silverberg, With Doubleday Books $22.5 (290p) ISBN 978-0-385-26343-6
This expanded version of the late Asimov's classic 1958 tale is a collaborative effort that surpasses the original. There are no plot surprises; the authors have retained the basic story of an alien four-year-old child who is kidnapped from his time
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Isaac Asimov, Author, Frederik Pohl, With Tor Books $19.95 (323p) ISBN 978-0-312-85252-8
Noted science and science fiction writer Asimov (the Foundation series) and novelist Pohl ( Chernobyl ) take a comprehensive look at the major threats to our planet's ecosystem and present a prescription by which humanity might rescue itself from...
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Isaac Asimov, Author, Ralph McQuarrie, Author, Ralph McQuarrie, Illustrator Roc $7.99 (496p) ISBN 978-0-451-45064-7
This collection offers 18 stories about robots as well as brief essays in which Asimov comments on robots in fiction, the Frankenstein complex, his famous Three Laws and the development of actual robots. ``The earliest tales here, written from 1940...
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Isaac Asimov, Author, Ralph McQuarrie, Illustrator Roc $18.95 (482p) ISBN 978-0-451-45000-5
NAL launches its new SF imprint, ROC, with a collection of 18 of Asimov's ( Foundation ) robot stories. The earliest tales here, written from 1940 to 1960, remain among the most-loved in the field, the best being ``Little Lost Robot,'' about a robot
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Isaac Asimov, Author, Janet Asimov, Editor . Prometheus $25 (309p) ISBN 978-1-57392-968-4
Condensed by Asimov's widow from the remarkably prolific author's three-volume autobiography, this fascinating but somewhat disjointed collection of excerpts conveys the exuberant spirit of one of the most celebrated founding fathers—a
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Isaac Asimov, Author, Gam, Author Walker & Company $19.95 (284p) ISBN 978-0-8027-1003-1
This volume falls somewhere between a history of science for young people and a compendium of scientific trivia. Asimov, author of A History of Physics and countless other books, discusses originsfrom human flight to viruses, earth and the solar...
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Isaac Asimov, Author, Janet Asimov, Author Dutton Books $23 (384p) ISBN 978-0-525-93631-2
This second compilation of Isaac Asimov's syndicated science column includes 125 articles, approximately 30 of which were contributed by his wife Janet after her husband's death in 1992. Arranged in sections concerning life sciences, astronomy,...
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Martin Harry Greenberg, Editor, Isaac Asimov, Author, Ron Lindahn, Author Dark Harvest $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-913165-44-7
Fifty years after his first professional sale, Isaac Asimov is still writing, prolifically, and turning out high-quality work. In commemoration, Greenberg has brought together one story from each of those 50 years, beginning with that very first...
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