Isaacs background Isaac Asimov was born in Russia in 1920 and immigrated to the USA with his parents

in 1923. He was married twice and had two children with his first wife. He began his writing career at the tender age of 11. He was known, at the height of his writing career, for writing in excess of eight hours a day, seven days a week. Despite being one of the greatest science fiction writers of all time, he was afraid to fly. Isaac didn't even learn to drive a car until 1950. He preferred trains, buses and other people's automobiles as his main method of transportation. This is rather ironic since most of his novels dealt with human beings zipping around the galaxy in spaceships! He was a scholar, having earned a B.S. and an M.A. in chemistry and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Columbia. His scientific knowledge shows through in his writing and enhances its believability significantly. During his long career, he wrote over 500 stories, novels and articles. He received multiple Hugo and Nebula awards.In 1966, his Foundation Series received a special Hugo award for Best All-time Novel Series. Writing Style Although Asimov was from a Jewish background, he was considered by most to be an atheist. Actually, he considered himself to be humanist. The humanists believe that good and evil do not spring from supernatural beings or forces. Rather, human beings are able to create and solve their own problems without the help of any supreme beings. These beliefs are very evident in his writing. His stories usually deal with human beings and their social problems. There are very few aliens in Asimov's novels. Also, he was rather conservative. Unlike Heinlein, who Asimov briefly worked with at the Philadelphia Naval Yard during World War II, there are hardly any sex scenes in Asimov's books. Fortunately, his scientific background enhances his novels rather than detracting from them. He injects just enough science into his writing to make the stories seem plausible. However, he doesn't delve so deeply into scientific theory that laymen become confused. Asimov was clearly ahead of his time when he wrote the Foundation trilogy. Although he was writing in the early 1950's, Asimov had surmised that atomic power (in its infancy then) would become a major source of power in the future. Asimov's novels are pleasant reading. Much like Terry Brooks and Robert Heinlein, he wrote with a keen eye towards his readers. You won't need to cuddle up with a dictionary to get through an Asimov book. His characters are usually well defined and his storylines are well thought out. Some of the stories in a series were written decades apart. Asimov was a perfectionist and would try to correct any discrepancies that he created in his previous works. Clearly, he was a man that did not like loose ends.

Isaacs role as a main science fiction writer For five decades Isaac Asimov was one of the central figures of science fiction. His popular works include NIGHTFALL (1941), FOUNDATION (1951), FOUNDATION AND EMPIRE (1952), SECOND FOUNDATION (1953), THE CAVES OF STEEL (1954), THE END OF ETERNITY (1955), THE NAKED SUN (1957), and THE GODS THEMSELVES (1972), which won both the Hugo and the Nebula awards.