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A group find various odd items. First story about a hand held beam weapon that does not attenuate but peramanetly disrupts the targets mental network causing them to be brainless "target would chew and swallow food in their mouth but would starve with a plate of food in front of them" The story...

Hi Isaac Asimov Fans, If you follow my threads you see I'm very much into consuming content in written and audio formats. I like to read a chapter and then listen to one in the car or the gym. This allows me to get thru books faster then just reading them when time permits. That said, today's...

Are there any short sci-fi stories by Asimov with happy, even if ironic, endings? It's become an obsession of late. I'm not very familiar with Asimov at all. Stand-alone stories, if you can, and not necessarily part of a series or attached to a novel, as I've seen there are many of those.

Today I was listening to "The Indicator" podcast and the topic introduced two economists who were inspired to go into economics because they had loved Foundation and wanted to use Math to change the world. At the end of the podcast the hosts said that they wondered who of the new generation of...

Foundation Trilogy - Isaac Asimov The Foundation books began life as collections of short stories and novellas, published in Astounding Science Fiction, between 1942 and 1949 (see here). I've read these books several times, but the last time was almost a decade ago, so I thought it would be...

Hi there everyone! New Asimov fan here, I've gotten into the Foundation series this year and have just started Second Foundation (no series spoilers please! :) ) and this is the set that I have of the series so far. I've done a lot of searching trying to complete this set with the sequels &...

An Isaac Asimov short story or novelette. Galactic Empire milieu. Humanity has nearly filled the galaxy. On the Milky Way edge we find an alien species (presumably the one that fills the MW in End of Eternity) just preparing to reach out into space. Instead of imprisoning them in their home...

Hi! Looking for a story where the main character is advised by a fortune teller to add an initial to his name. This leads a spy agency to investigate him. Which leads the “other side” to step up research on a nuclear shield. Ultimately, war is prevented, at which point you learn that the fortune...

Hi, I'm searching for a book title about a dictator who can create a clone or a doppelgänger of himself. Scientist have find a way to isolate a persone and always follow them. They tried to isolate the dictator but it turn out he was a double. The dictator has killed near a billion poeple to...

An ok collection of early SF novellas. One or two gems (Time Wants a Skeleton by Ross Rocklynne, Nerves by Lester del Rey, No Woman Born by C. L. Moore, and With Folded Hands,Jack Williamson), the rest, not much to write home about. "Time Wants a Skeleton" by Ross Rocklynne. Very good time...

Hi everyone, I have been looking for this book for a while, i hope you can help me. Here is what I remember : it's a science fiction story, around maybe 2 or 3 hundred pages. I read it more than 5 years ago, wanted to read something random and was really positively impressed. I didn't know...

I have read most of Christopher Nuttall's Empire's Corps and similarities to Asimov's Foundation series are pretty obvious. I have searched this site for Empire's Corp and have seen no mention of it so I am wondering what anyone thinks. Asimov's Empire takes up the entire galaxy. Nuttall has a...

Hi. Among the popular series for which I have made reading-order flowcharts is this one. Isaac Asimov wrote the Robot stories, the Empire novels, and the Foundation stories as parts of three separate series, but around 1980 he began to tie them all together into a somewhat-cohesive single...

CLARKE is a better fiction writer ,Asimov is really good at non-fiction .

Warning: Foundation trilogy spoilers ahead I loved the Foundation trilogy, but I found myself admiring and rooting for the Mule. Does anyone else feel this way? Consider: the Mule was a single man, a physically deformed mutant that everyone mocked, who defied the historical necessity...

Which then is the greater in terms of their impact and influence upon Science fiction not only literature but all other mediums as well. Foundation or Dune ?:) And which of them do you think , is the better overall writer?:) Thoughts ?

It is a short story. I read it more than 30 years ago. I suspect is an Asimov's story, but I'm not sure. I found a list of the Good Doctor's stories, but they are a lot and no title triggered my memory. Plot: In bacteriology when you want to grow a bacterium you put it on something it can feed...

Not only Asimov's 100th, but also, approximately, Foundations' 80th. Between 1940 and 1950 Asimov wrote the Foundation Trilogy... under the mentor-ship of John W Campbell on the pages of Astounding Science Fiction Magazine. Foundation is essentially big-thinks-domesticated space opera, about as...

After years in development hell it looks like this may actually happen. Not HBO, but maybe that's for the best. ‘Foundation’: Apple Gives Series Order To Adaptation Of Isaac Asimov’s Sci-Fi Classic From David Goyer & Josh Friedman

Looking for title and author of a novel(la) from the 50’s or 60’s in which the problem of an interstellar vehicle’s hull was solved by using a pulsating energy field. Apparently it had to pulsate because it would explode catastrophically if just left on.