isaac asimov

I am selling my deceased fathers Asimov book collection , I count 182 in total, about half and half paperback and hard back, my dad was very thrifty and got them all from used book shops, I doubt are any rare ones in there. Can any one advise on the value sold as a lot ? My best guess is £100.

I just finished reading "Pebble in the Sky" by Isaac Asimov, while at the same time I began listening to "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" by H.P. Lovecraft, read by the Cthulu and Friends Podcast. What a contrast in writing styles. I've read multiple people on the Chrons state their affection for...

I haven't read any Asimov, but heard an episode of this new dramatisation while I was driving and was completely gripped. Anyone else been listening to it? The previous episodes are still available on i-player. BBC Radio 4 - 15 Minute Drama, Isaac Asimov's I, Robot I think it was the...

So I finished Foundation's Edge. Admittedly, even though the Foundation Series has easily become my favorite space opera one, I haven't finished... I know, I'm a faker. No, honestly, these books are loosely connected and they're individually exciting. So, question which may bring spoilers; what...

How would anyone actually pull this off? A series that spans several thousand years just seems very difficult to accomplish. I mean, I suppose it could take place similarly to Star Trek in the form of individual episodes, but I'm not even sure that would work. So let's problem solve here. If...

Hello. I'm reading Foundation and Empire for the first time and something is disturbing me. In the chapter 'To Trantor' Barr and Devers decide to go to Trantor for an audience with the Emperor so they can give him a message. The following chapter, 'On Trantor', begins with a description of the...

Will Isaac Assimov's "Last Question" break any rules against discussion of religion on this community?

I am currently doing a research project into the possible engineering of Asimov's robots in books such as I, Robot. I was wondering if you would take a little time to take part in this survey at (www).[SURVEY].co.uk/r/QKJJYYN (take out the brackets) all responses are anonymous. If you would...

In the far future psychologist Hari Seldon creates the new science of Psychohistory, applying the principles of psychology on a grand scale to the whole of society and using them to accurately predict the future of that society. Seldon predicts the fall of the great galactic empire and using the...

Would you say the Susan Calvin series by this author are set directly after Asimov's I, Robot?

Just about the first science fiction book I ever saw, stuck on a library shelf with about twenty-five books of the same nature, was Asimov's THE CAVES OF STEEL. I was but a child; I read the first page of it and couldn't figure out what the book might be about at all from that opening page. I...

(My first time properly reviewing a novel, so please bear with me if it's a bit flappy - I found this a lot more difficult than I expected!) This was Asimov's first full-length novel, and the first of the loose grouping of Empire books. In a spoiler-free nutshell, a retired tailor from the...

So i had a desire to return to the first SF author i have ever read, always lacked time so postponing became rutine, and since my plan was to read all robot-foundation books, i knew it's gonna be a long task. Finally two months ago i just decided to start, and must tell you it's been a hell of a...

Hi. Does anyone know whereabouts these books fit in chronologically, in the list which includes the Tiedemann and Allen books etc. Thanks.

Hello everyone. I have been a sci fi fan since reading my first Heinlein book, The Door into Summer, about 25 years ago. Anyway, does anyone have a resource for identifying early Asimov first editions? Sometimes it is difficult to tell the difference between a book club edition, and an early...

YA Novel Too Similar to Asimov's "Nightfall" ? It even has the very same name and identical plot basis: "Three teens inadvertently left behind on an island when other residents escape to avoid a 14-year period of darkness must contend with abandonment, terrifying creatures – and a world without...

Many fans are probably familiar with http://www.asimovonline.com/ and http://www.asimovreviews.net/ which contain a vast amount of details. I probably should have known about http://nightfall.info/asimov/ but didn't until it came to my attention via Darkday's post about PKD. The Asimov page...

The Stars, Like Dust Isaac Asimov Orb (Tor), Sep 2009, $14.99 ISBN: 9780765319159 Biron Farril is on earth attending college while his father rules the planet Rhodia. When someone tries to kill him at the school with a radiation bomb and he also learns his popular dad was assassinated, Biron...

Hello ! I'm starting to read Issac Asimov's novels, but I don't know where should I start. According to wikipedia the chronological order is this : The End Of Eternity The Robot series: The Caves of Steel. The Naked Sun. The Robots of Dawn. Robots and Empire. Galactic Empire novels: The...

Hey, I'm looking for a story (almost entirely certain it's a short story by Asimov) in which two characters need to choose which one of them will volunteer to do something (I assume it's dangerous) and then one suggests the first to compute a certain mathematical power will go (he then...