![]() Marjorie Miller's Isaac Asimov: A Checklist should now be available in most libraries with any interest at all in science fiction. Tepper made available a 'meticulously accurate' (Asimov's words) listing ofthat public record. In his The Asimov Science Fiction Bibliography M. Asimov's science fiction career is a matter of public record. ![]() The first goal is relatively easy to achieve. Dedicated to EDMOND HAMILTON whose The Star Kings started it all for me PREFACE This study has two primary goals: to describe Asimov's career as a science fiction writer and to analyze as much of that science fiction as possible. This book is published at a net price and is supplied subject to the Publishers Association Standard Conditions of Sale registered under the Restrictive Trade Practices Act, 1956. 1974 Made and printed in Great Britain by Hazell Watson & Viney Ltd Aylesbury, Bucks Set in Monotype Times Roman This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. Granada Publishing Limited First published in Great Britain in 1976 by Panther Books Ltd Frogmore, St Albans, Herts AL2 2NF First published by Doubleday & Co Inc (US) 1974 Copyright © Joseph F. ![]() The author also examines how the impact of Asimov's innovative stories changed the tone of the genre - from space opera action adventure thrillers to 'cerebral' stories dealing with politics, ecology, religion and sex. In this unique and comprehensive survey of Asimov's works, Joseph Patrouch describes how certain themes and settings recur - a civilization across fifty worlds, the earth virtually destroyed by nuclear holocaust how Asimov was influenced in his career by different people how he developed the humans-only galaxy which has become the hallmark of Asimovian fiction. The Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov Panther Isaac Asimov is a name that over the decades has become synonymous with science fiction.
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