Isaac Asimov

By Lauren Davis Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham: The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham: Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein: I, Robot by Isaac Asimov: John Carter of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Neuromancer by William Gibson: The Space Merchants by by Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth:

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...

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 »

Some speakers called for researchers to adopt the “three laws” of robotics created by Isaac Asimov, the science fiction author, that are designed to protect ... and more »

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 ...

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...

Hamilton was always well-regarded and known in science fiction circles and known as the dean of science fiction. Isaac Asimov one said that Hamilton was ...

Like many of his contemporaries -- Isaac Asimov, Theodore Sturgeon, Ray Bradbury -- he has produced a mind-boggling number of stories, books, and scripts, ...

Between film and TV franchises—The Star Wars and Star Trek series—and the proliferation of popular science fiction by Isaac Asimov or Arthur C. Clarke, ... and more »

 VA Science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov often dealt with these ethical problems in his stories about robots. His story "Runaround" is famous for introducing his three laws of robotics: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, ...

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)

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,...

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...

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? ...

from EA Redwood Shores combines the best of two long standing genres from literature, film, and video games; science fiction and survival horror. It incorporates science fiction elements from the likes of authors Isaac Asimov and Phillip K. ...

Proyas also directed the Will Smith adaptation of Asimov’s I, Robot, but everyone’s allowed to strike-out once in a while. Now, five years after the unfortunate release of Smith’s cinematic abortion, the Egyptian-born Australian director is back with ...

 CT The prolific genius and multiple Hugo award winner Isaac Asimov also sold scores of non-fiction books and articles. Now we have another successful writer of science fiction who has something important to say, and not through his novels. ...

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...

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. ...

The PBS journalist Bill Moyers asked the great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov, “What happens to the idea of the dignity of the human species if this population growth continues at its present rate?” Asimov replied, “It will be completely destroyed ...

 UK Dr Kirby said: "The reason a lot of sci-fi looks so prophetic is because people are getting advice from scientists about what can be done. "Even HG Wells was tied into the science community and in the 1950s Arthur C Clarke and Isaac Asimov were trained ...

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 ...

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...

 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 ...

 MA - No wonder science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov predicted in 1956 that computers would eventually grow so big that most of their bulk would have to be placed ...

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...

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...

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. 

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 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...

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...

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)...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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, ...

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...

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...

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...

By infini 7/7/7 marks the 100th birthday of Grandmaster Robert Anson Heinlein, born July 7th 1907. Long live Lazarus Long! While any attempt at a tribute would but naturally turn into a passionate link infested paean to this visionary genius, one of the Big 3, along with Asimov and Clarke, one must h...

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

By Andru Edwards Israeli scientists from Techion University have teamed with the College of Judea and Samaria to create a one millimeter bot that can be inserted into a patient’s bloodstream, with no miniature Rachel Welch or Stephen Boyd needed. The mini-robot is composed of a hub and tiny arms that can h...

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...

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...

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...

By dweigel@reason.com (David Weigel) “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)

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)

Heinlein or Asimov? Asimov Magazine: Asimov's Science Fiction or Fantasy & Science Fiction? Never read either Collection (short stories by the same author) or Anthology (short stories by different authors)? Eh, I read so little short fiction it doesn't matter.

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.