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ZUCK: You'll be silver-coated in the future
Original at Attleboro Sun Chronicle
• Sat, Dec 26
Thanks to years of watching science fiction movies and reading Isaac Asimov novels, I know exactly what the future will look like. ...
'Sherlockians' say new film succeeds
Original at CNN
• Fri, Dec 25
The group has included mystery writers Rex Stout and Anthony Boucher and science fiction writer Isaac Asimov. Honorary members have included presidents ... and more »
Movie Review: You're no Robert Heinlein, James Cameron
Original at The Auburn Plainsman
• Sun, Dec 20
Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, and Arthur Clarke are known as the "Big Three" of science fiction. They revolutionized the genre of science fiction writing. ... and more »
Adventskalender - Tür 17
Original at OnlineWelten
• Thu, Dec 17
Science-Fiction begeisterte Kinogänger werden I, Robot, Alex Proyas Interpretation des Isaac Asimov-Klassikers, sicherlich in einem Lichtspielhaus ihrer ...
Genre:Sci-Fi, Thriller
Original at MovieWeb
• Tue, Dec 15
Will Smith stars in this action thriller inspired by the classic short story collection by Isaac Asimov, and brought to the big screen by dynamic and ...
James Cameron's Next is 3D 'Fantastic Voyage' - News in Film
Original at newsinfilm.com
• Fri, Dec 11
News in Film (blog) James Cameron's Next is 3D 'Fantastic Voyage' News in Film (blog) The concept was later written into a novel by science fiction great Isaac Asimov. Cameron is not set to direct the movie, but will lend a hand with his ... and more »
Weekly Ketchup: James Cameron Plans a Fantastic Voyage
Original at Rotten Tomatoes
• Fri, Dec 11
Telegraph.co.uk The movie was also adapted as a novel by Isaac Asimov (making many people, including myself, think that it was actually an Asimov story first). ... James Cameron's Next is 3D 'Fantastic Voyage'News in Film (blog) all 1,619 news articles »
Climategate: The Skeptical Scientist's View
Original at Men's News Daily
• Fri, Nov 27
The chemist and science fiction writer Isaac Asimov wrote an entire novel, A Whiff of Death, which revolved around the seriousness of falsifying data to ...
Updating Asimov: Engineers say new laws needed to govern human-robot relationships
Original at TMCnet
• Sun, Nov 22
dcaruso@dispatch.com Rewriting robotic laws Starting with Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics, engineers David Woods (below right) and Robin Murphy ... Engineers say new laws needed to govern human-robot relationshipsColumbus Dispatch all 2 news articles »
Joel Wyman and Jeff Pinkner Talk About Fringe
Original at MovieWeb
• Fri, Nov 20
Part of the thing that we struggle with on a weekly basis, to us that the best science fiction sort of deals with very human conditions, like Isaac Asimov ...
A History of 16 Science Fiction Classics, Told In Book Covers
Original at io9
• Tue, Nov 17
By Lauren Davis A single book can inspire a wide range of covers, and sometimes those covers can be works of art themselves. We look at some classic science fiction novels and the various covers they've worn throughout the years. I, Robot by Isaac Asimov: Neuromancer by William Gibson:
Traditionalist and libertarian themes in science fiction and fantasy: Part ...
Original at Enter Stage Right
• Sun, Nov 8
The best-known achievement of the highly prolific writer of science-fiction (and of many works of popular science) Isaac Asimov, is probably the Foundation ...
5 Reasons Why "House, M.D." Is Science Fiction
Original at io9
• Wed, Aug 26
By Annalee Newitz Many people claim that House is more like a detective series than a science fiction series, but actually detectives are common in the annals of science fiction. Asimov wrote a series about a police detective and his robot sidekick; China Mieville's latest novel The City & The City is a...
Paul Krugman's Dream Job: Nerdy Sci-Fi Hero
Original at Reason Online
• Mon, Aug 10
In this week's New York Times Book Review, Paul Krugman admits that he was inspired to become an economist by science-fiction Grand Master Isaac Asimov. ... and more »
What happened to Arab science fiction?
Original at U.TV
• Thu, Jul 30
Isaac Asimov once said that "true science fiction could not really exist until people understood the rationalism of science and began to use it with respect ...
Emmerich's Asimov Foundation Trilogy Being Written By Private Ryan Scribe
Original at io9
• Sat, Jul 25
By Meredith Woerner It's a different kind of movie all together. The interesting and difficult thing about Asimov's Foundation is that he actually wrote it as short stories. Then, out of the short stories, he took the first book out called Foundation, which was like several stories. Then he wrote two big novell...
Glorious new book illustrates SF art history
Original at Reporter-Times
• Wed, May 27
IN There are awe-inspiring examples of the cover and other art that has accompanied the writings of authors such as HG Wells, Edgar Rice Burroughs, EE “Doc” Smith, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Heinlein, Ray Bradbury, Frank Herbert, ...
How Isaac Asimov's Famously Non-Deadly Robots Got Lethal
Original at io9
• Sun, May 24
By Alasdair Wilkins With his elegantly simple Three Laws of Robotics, Isaac Asimov sidestepped the murderous robot cliche that had so dominated science fiction. But even the Good Doctor wasn't completely immune to the lure of killer robots. 7. R. Sammy, The Caves of Steel (1954)
Horsey's take on Gaia…
Original at The Spokesman Review
• Fri, May 22
Horsey's take on Gaia… WA Even super-author Isaac Asimov has weighed in on theories about Gaia and Lovelock's original premise. Horror writer James Herbert and incredible novelist David Brin (http://www.davidbrin.com/) both have given contributions to the discussion, ...
Opinion: Thirteen Books That Will Change The Way You Look At Robots
Original at io9
• Fri, May 22
By Annalee Newitz Written by the scientist who runs the AI Lab at MIT, this non-fiction book is both smart and complicated, offering us an intriguing view of the future of robotics. Brooks' basic supposition is that what robotics teach us is that humans are themselves robots, made up of molecular machines,...
Why Asimov's Laws of Robotics Are Total BS [Man Vs Machine]
Original at Gizmodo
• Mon, May 18
By Wilson Rothman These all sound a bit like the sort of questions that would only be posed at science fiction conventions. But that is my point. When we talk about robots now, we are no longer talking about "mere science fiction" as one Pentagon analyst described of these technologies. They are very much a part...
Maid for the future
Original at Minneapolis Star Tribune
• Mon, Apr 6
We don't recognize it now, but someday we'll look back and see this as the start of robots benefiting humankind, as science-fiction author Isaac Asimov envisioned. Wasn't it Bill Gates who said that robotics is where computers were 30 years ago? ...
"Wired for War" Asks What Happens When Robots Kill for Us
Original at io9
• Thu, Mar 5
By Andrew Liptak Until now, the idea of the use of robots on the battlefield has been the stuff of science fiction - which is alluded to heavily throughout Singer's analysis. He and the subjects he interviews have learned about warfare from science fiction. Indeed, the book opens with a reference to the curr...
TERMINATOR: SALVATION (new trailer)
Original at Examiner.com
• Wed, Mar 4
On the contrary, the whole idea of people as robots as people is what Asimov and PKD were toying with before Ron Moore was out of diapers. All I am saying is, this may be a revolution in Science Fiction. There may be more to come. ...
Teaching Ethics to Robo Warriors
Original at Fast Company
• Wed, Feb 25
Lin further postulates that we'll need a warrior code for robots, similar to those dreamed up by Isaac Asimov nearly 60 years ago and popularized in the movies Terminator 2 and I, Robot. The full report, available here, mulls a range of ...
Isaac Asimov books collection + all covers
Original at AvaxHome
• Wed, Feb 18
By Jeterro Isaac Asimov (Russian: originally Исаак Озимов, Isaak Ozimov; now Айзек Азимов; Ayzyek Azimov), was a Russian-born American author and professor of biochemistry, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. Most of Asimov's popularized science book...
Book Review: Lonely Planets - The Natural Philosophy Of Alien Life ...
Original at Blogcritics
• Thu, Feb 12
OH with others in the assorted fields he mines, most notably the late astronomer and science popularizer, Carl Sagan, as well as his being influenced by the science fiction of writers as diverse as Isaac Asimov, Olaf Stapledon, and Arthur C. Clarke.
New Art in Old Rome Neighborhood
Original at International Herald Tribune
• Tue, Feb 3
France The sleek, boxcar-shaped exhibition space is named after a 1951 Isaac Asimov science fiction story, C-Chute, the so-called casualty chute, which is used for launching corpses from a spaceship for burial in space, (the gallery translates the title as ...
Book-a-Minute
Original at other-worlds-cafe.com
• Mon, Jan 5
By Chip Also check out their Movie-a-Minute section. The fine folks over at RinkWorks know that our time is valuable. They’ve saved us loads of it by taking out all of the filler–there’s a startling amount of it–from works of fiction, allowing each book to be read in a minute or less. It’s surprising h...
In Passing... Forest J. Ackerman (1916-2008)
Original at chasness (WordPress)
• Fri, Dec 12
By chasness Ackerman was born in Los Angeles and by the age of 8 fell in love with science fiction which at that time was in the form of a magazine called “Amazing Stories.” As he grew up he started science fiction fan clubs, worked as a movie projectionist, and even enlisted in the Service. Upon his return h...
2008 deaths
Original at SCIFIPEDIA
• Mon, Dec 8
Arthur C. Clarke was one of the ABCs of science fiction (the A being Isaac Asimov and the B being Ray Bradbury). Among his classics are Childhood's End, Rendezvous with Rama, and 2001: A Space Odyssey (which began as a short story). Michael Crichton had tremendous mainstream success with sci...
SciFi Mags Struggling?
Original at Show Me SciFi
• Wed, Nov 19
By showmescifi There is a really interesting article up on the PBS.org site now about the current state of the Science Fiction magazine market. At this point there are only three left: Analog, Asimov’s and the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
Asimov's Science Fiction for the Kindle: The Jan 2009 Issue
Original at The Kindle Reader
• Mon, Nov 17
By Jan(jzlendich@comcast.net) The SF Conventional Calendar, by Erwin S. Strauss. List of science fiction conventions Nov 2008 through Jan 2009. The first issue of Asimov's Science Fiction was published in 1977. Check out the SF Site for a brief history of the magazine.
Foundation's Edge
Original at SCIFIPEDIA
• Sun, Nov 16
Foundation’s Edge is a 1982 novel by Isaac Asimov, in which he returns to the Foundation story after a thirty year absence. This book won the 1983 Hugo Award for the best novel of 1982, and was nominated for the 1982 Nebula Award (for which it lost out to Michael Bishop's No Enemy But Time). This...
Podcast: J. Storrs Hall - Asimov's Laws of Robotics � Revised
Original at Phil Windley's Technometria
• Tue, Nov 4
Could Hammurabi have written the laws to prevent the Enron scandal? J. Storrs Hall, scientist and author Of Beyond AI, poses this question to demonstrate the near impossible challenge confronting scientists in the current discussion of machine ethics. The future of AI envisions machin...
Resolved Question: Are there any other series/books like that of L.E. Modesittes saga of the recluse?
Original at Yahoo! Answers
• Fri, Oct 31
I fell in love with this series, it is tolkien all over again; with the exception of mythil creatures. I loved the series and the ones below, are there any that i have missed? I read: Robin Hobb L.E.Modessitte Robjert Jordan Patrick Rothfuss(amazing!!!) J. K. Rowling Paoloni (so-so in my scale)...
6 Science Fiction Classics To Help You Choose The Next President
Original at io9
• Mon, Oct 6
By Charlie Jane Anders We asked six political pundits, including Andrew Sullivan and DailyKos' Markos Moulitsas, to pick one piece of science fiction that you must read or watch before stepping into the voting booth next month. After all, science fiction often deals with some of the biggest what-ifs and alter...
Spotlight Review Space Doubles the Trade Paperback
Original at Comics And...Other Imaginary Tales
• Thu, Aug 28
By Jim I’ma science fiction fan and grew up loving Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein and other authors. I have enjoyed Farscape, Star Trek and their ilk, but I have missed having a show like the Outer Limits, that was often one part science ...
Podcast: The Overnightscape #733 (8/27/08)
Original at The Overnightscape
• Tue, Aug 26
By frank 733 (Wednesday, August 27, 2008 / 59:00 / 54.1 MB / theovernightscape.com) - Tonight’s subjects include: Star Trek: The Next Generation pinball, watching the premiere of “Star Trek: The Next Generation” at the college rec center, quick movie reviews (”Star Wars: The Clone Wars”, “Star W...
Novels published in 1958
Original at British Science Fiction Association
• Fri, Aug 1
By Del Eligible novels include: Equator – Brian Aldiss (New Worlds 75 & 76, September & October)Non-Stop – Brian Aldiss (Faber)A Bicycle Built for Brew – Poul Anderson (Astounding, November & December)The Man Who Counts – Poul Anderson (Astounding, February – April)We Have Fe...
Podcast: Eric Asimov (Chief Wine Critic for the New York Times)
Original at The Restaurant Guys
• Sun, Apr 27
Eric Asimov is the Chief Wine Critic for the New York Times. Although he formerly edited the renowned paper's "Living" and "Style" sections, he is most known for his reviews of all types of New York City restaurants, ...
Happy Birthday, Arthur C. Clarke!
Original at Clipmarks
• Sat, Dec 15
British sci-fi author Arthur C. Clarke turns 90 on Dec. 16. Clarke penned the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, which was adapted into Stanley Kubrick's big-screen freaky fav.Clarke is also the last surviving member of the "Big Three" of science fiction authors (the other two members of the geeky...
Pathological Science
Original at The Opinion Mill
• Mon, Sep 10
By stevenhart Via science blogger Jennifer Ouelette at Cocktail Party Physics, I found the intriguing term “pathological science” to describe “a psychological process in which a scientist, originally conforming to the scientific method, unconsciously veers from that method, and begins a patho...
Book Review: Black's Beach Shuffle by Corey Fayman
Original at Blogcritics
• Sat, Jul 21
By Richard Marcus In the early part of the twentieth century in the United States mass entertainment was still limited to what could be broadcast over the radio or published in magazines that could be sold throughout the country. Magazines ranged from the Benjamin Franklin-founded Saturday Evening Post...
Taser Robot: 1st Terminator?
Original at p2pnet.net
• Mon, Jul 2
By Jon p2pnet news:- Isaac Asimov is probably turning over in his grave. He’s famous for its I, Robot, science-fiction series, an integral component of which are his Three Laws of Robotics: Tool? Slashdot it! Also See: Los Angeles Times - Taser-armed robots are in the works, July 2, 2005
Podcast: Tales Of Tomorrow - Martians Never Die
Original at M Radio SIG
• Wed, May 30
By Tom Ferguson Originally aired March 12, 1953 From an original story by Lucius Daniel appearing in Galaxy April, 1952 Galaxy Science Fiction was a digest-size science fiction magazine, the creation of noted editor H. L. Gold, who found a responsive readership when he put the emphasis on imaginative so...
Podcast of this year's Hugo-nominated short stories
Original at Boing Boing
• Fri, May 11
By Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow: Escape Pod, the killer science fiction story podcast, is running all the Hugo nominees for best short story, starting with Tim Pratt's wonderful "Impossible Dreams," about a film-geek who discovers a video store from another dimension. He went to the Sci-Fi shelf—and ha...
Robots for the home provide endless potential
Original at Blogging Stocks
• Tue, Apr 24
By Gary E. Sattler Issac Asimov would be proud. In today's ever expanding universe of artificial intelligence and robotics, it would seem that no barriers remain to the boundless potential of what robots can accomplish. From cleaning swimming pools to exposing makeshift bombs, robots are now assisting h...
Hugo nominees announced
Original at Boing Boing
• Thu, Mar 29
By Cory Doctorow “The Walls of the Universe” by Paul Melko (Asimov’s, April/May 2006) “A Billion Eyes” by Robert Reed (Asimov’s, October/November 2006) “Inclination” by William Shunn (Asimov’s, April/May 2006) “Lord Weary’s Empire” by Michael Swanwick (Asimov’s, December 2006)
Podcast: I Robot
Original at Fi Talk
• Fri, Feb 17
From The 2004 Radio Roundtables, thanks to 20th Century Fox, I have interviews with Will Smith, Bridget Moynahan, Alan Tudyk and the film's director, Alex Proyas discussing the film, loosely based on the Isaac Asimov collection.