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The fourth and final book of the series, "Super Quiz IV" was published in 1989. [2] Three boxed versions titled "Isaac Asimov presents SUPER QUIZ" were produced By "Waddingtons" of Canada. [3] In 2016. The "Torstar Syndication Services'" made the daily quiz available to many American newspapers. [4] "K.
Writer and academic Isaac Asimov enjoyed acrostics, comparing them favorably to crossword puzzles. In "Yours, Isaac Asimov", published three years after his 1992 death, he wrote, "As it happens, I don't... have time for hobbies. But I am a fiend at Crostics. Crostics don't have the public that crosswords do, because Crostics seem hard.
"The Last Question" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in the November 1956 issue of Science Fiction Quarterly and in the anthologies in the collections Nine Tomorrows (1959), The Best of Isaac Asimov (1973), Robot Dreams (1986), The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov (1986), the retrospective Opus 100 (1969), and in Isaac Asimov: The Complete ...
Isaac Asimov (/ ˈ æ z ɪ m ɒ v / AZ-im-ov; [b] [c] c. January 2, 1920 [a] – April 6, 1992) was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. During his lifetime, Asimov was considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke . [ 2 ]
Puzzles of the Black Widowers is a collection of mystery short stories by American author Isaac Asimov, featuring his fictional club of mystery solvers, the Black Widowers. It was first published in hardcover by Doubleday in January 1990, and in paperback by Bantam Books the same year. The first British edition was issued in hardcover by ...
In a writing career spanning 53 years (1939–1992), science fiction and popular science author Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) wrote and published 40 novels, 383 short stories, over 280 non-fiction books, and edited about 147 others.
The Early Asimov or, Eleven Years of Trying is a 1972 collection of short stories by American writer Isaac Asimov.Each story is accompanied by commentary by the author, who gives details about his life and his literary achievements in the period in which he wrote the story, effectively amounting to a sort of autobiography for the years 1938 to 1949.
The Machines, positronic supercomputers that manage the world in Isaac Asimov's short story "The Evitable Conflict" (1950) MARAX (MAchina RAtiocinatriX), the spaceship Kosmokrator ' s AI in Stanisław Lem's novel The Astronauts (1951) EPICAC, in Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano and other of his writings, EPICAC coordinates the United States economy.