In August of 1964, just more than 50 years ago, author Isaac Asimov wrote a piece in The New York Times, pegged to that summer's World Fair. In the essay, Asimov imagines what the World Fair would be ...
Writer Andy Weir has become a big name in the sci-fi genre, and he credits these Isaac Asimov books for showing him how flexible sci-fi could be.
In 1964, the famed writer shared his vision of our time. Some predictions were spot-on, while others were wildly off base. Crave's Eric Mack thinks he knows why. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor ...
Past predictions about the future oftentimes fail miserably—or at least produce a few giggles. In 1949, Popular Mechanics predicted that future computers would at least “weigh no more than 1.5 tons.” ...
In 1988, Bill Moyers interviewed author Isaac Asimov for WORLD OF IDEAS. Incredibly prolific in various genres beyond the science fiction for which he was best known, Asimov wrote well over 400 books ...
If you have ever been a fan of science fiction, you cannot do better than to return to the works of Isaac Asimov, argues The Threepenny Review’s Wendy Lesser in her review of Asimov’s The End Of ...