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5 Reasons Why "House, M.D." Is Science Fiction

26 Aug 2009 13:26:56 PDT

Written 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...

Original story at io9 .

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Paul Krugman's Dream Job: Nerdy Sci-Fi Hero

10 Aug 2009 11:13:41 PDT

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 »

Original story at Reason Online .

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Emmerich's Asimov Foundation Trilogy Being Written By Private Ryan Scribe

25 Jul 2009 15:00:56 PDT

Written 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...

Original story at io9 .

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Mankind's giant leap forward

16 Jul 2009 09:57:40 PDT

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 »

Original story at Livemint .

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How Isaac Asimov's Famously Non-Deadly Robots Got Lethal

24 May 2009 14:00:00 PDT

Written 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)

Original story at io9 .

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Opinion: Thirteen Books That Will Change The Way You Look At Robots

22 May 2009 00:00:21 PDT

Written 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,...

Original story at io9 .

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Isaac Asimov news and blogs - November 09, 2009

09 Nov 2009 00:00:01 PDT

Below is today's roundup of news and blogs that haven't yet hit top story status by our community. Visit Isaac Asimov news and blogs for even more news and blogs converage.

• What Do You Know? The Second Hugo Winner Redeems Itself -- by Moff from io9: Top
• Fast Moving Sidewalks -- from Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
• Scientists Rein in Artifical Intelligence -- from PSFK
• First he'll be at the sound board, then the mike -- from Las Vegas Sun
• US Predicts Killer Robots 40 Years Away, Raises Ethics Debate -- from findingDulcinea
• Are Science Fiction Franchises As Popular As Religion? -- from Ethiopian Review
• Culture cybernétique, cyberdélie et cyberpunk... -- from nouvelobs.com
• Scientists fear a revolt by killer robots -- from Times Online
• Climbing mountains -- from LaSalle News Tribune
• What happened to Arab science fiction? -- from U.TV

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Why Asimov's Laws of Robotics Are Total BS [Man Vs Machine]

18 May 2009 16:00:00 PDT

Written 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...

Original story at Gizmodo .

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Maid for the future

06 Apr 2009 14:56:47 PDT

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? ...

Original story at Minneapolis Star Tribune .

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Teaching Ethics to Robo Warriors

25 Feb 2009 08:32:25 PST

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 ...

Original story at Fast Company .

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In Passing... Forest J. Ackerman (1916-2008)

12 Dec 2008 13:08:43 PST

Written 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...

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2008 deaths

08 Dec 2008 15:27:17 PST

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...

Original story at SCIFIPEDIA .

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SciFi Mags Struggling?

19 Nov 2008 19:34:05 PST

Written 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.

Original story at Show Me SciFi .

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Foundation's Edge

16 Nov 2008 22:45:58 PST

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...

Original story at SCIFIPEDIA .

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Podcast: J. Storrs Hall - Asimov's Laws of Robotics â�� Revised

04 Nov 2008 22:00:00 PST

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...

Original story at Phil Windley's Technometria .

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Spotlight Review Space Doubles the Trade Paperback

28 Aug 2008 15:00:00 PDT

Written 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 ...

Original story at Comics And...Other Imaginary Tales .

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Podcast: The Overnightscape #733 (8/27/08)

26 Aug 2008 03:52:04 PDT

Written 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...

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Podcast: Eric Asimov (Chief Wine Critic for the New York Times)

27 Apr 2008 17:00:00 PDT

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, ...

Original story at The Restaurant Guys .

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Pathological Science

10 Sep 2007 12:13:06 PDT

Written 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...

Original story at The Opinion Mill .

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Taser Robot: 1st Terminator?

02 Jul 2007 13:28:19 PDT

Written 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

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Podcast: Tales Of Tomorrow - Martians Never Die

30 May 2007 15:36:00 PDT

Written 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...

Original story at M Radio SIG .

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Podcast of this year's Hugo-nominated short stories

11 May 2007 16:10:18 PDT

Written 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...

Original story at Boing Boing .

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Robots for the home provide endless potential

24 Apr 2007 09:00:00 PDT

Written 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...

Original story at Blogging Stocks .

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Hey, Nerds!

29 Mar 2007 07:00:00 PDT

Written 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)

Original story at Hit and Run .

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Another SF Book Meme

01 Feb 2007 15:23:13 PST

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.

Original story at KG's Booklog .

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Podcast: I Robot

17 Feb 2006 01:46:00 PST

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.

Original story at Fi Talk .

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