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A collection of 8 short stories and 2 novels about robots by the 20th century American science fiction writer
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THE CLASSIC COLLECTION OF ROBOT STORIES.
About the Author
Isaac Asimov, world maestro of science fiction, was born in Russia near Smolensk in 1920 and was brought to the United States by his parents three years later. He grew up in Brooklyn where he went to grammar school and at the age of eight he gained his citizen papers. A remarkable memory helped him finish high school before he was sixteen. He then went on to Columbia University and resolved to become a chemist rather than follow the medical career his father had in mind for him. He graduated in chemistry and after a short spell in the Army he gained his doctorate in 1949 and qualified as an instructor in biochemistry at Boston University School of Medicine where he became Associate Professor in 1955, doing research in nucleic acid. Increasingly, however, the pressures of chemical research conflicted with his aspirations in the literary field, and in 1958 he retired to full-time authorship while retaining his connection with the University. Asimov's fantastic career as a science fiction writer began in 1939 with the appearance of a short story, `Marooned Off Vesta', in Amazing Stories. Thereafter he became a regular contributor to the leading SF magazines of the day including Astounding, Astonishing Stories, Super Science Stories and Galaxy. He won the Hugo Award four times and the Nebula Award once. With nearly five hundred books to his credit and several hundred articles, Asimov's output was prolific by any standards. Apart from his many world-famous science fiction works, Asimov also wrote highly successful detective mystery stories, a four-volume History of North America, a two-volume Guide to the Bible, a biographical dictionary, encyclopaedias, textbooks and an impressive list of books on many aspects of science, as well as two volumes of autobiography. Isaac Asimov died in 1992 at the age of 72.
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- PublisherDoubleday
- Publication date1964
- ISBN 10 0385090412
- ISBN 13 9780385090414
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages159
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Doubleday & Company, Inc, Garden City, 1964
ISBN 10: 0385090412
ISBN 13: 9780385090414
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. Later Printing. A square solid tight clean very carefully read copy. This copy has some light tanning to the edges of the text block, two tiny see through type stains to the top edge of the text block, a bump to the heel of the spine. The 7.95 priced jacket has some light running, light edge wear, some tanning to the reverse. Two novels The Caves of Steel and the Naked Sun and eight short stories. THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND NORMALLY SHIPS NEXT DAY. Book. Seller Inventory # 048089
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