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The Foundation series is a science fiction book series written by American author Isaac Asimov.First published as a series of short stories and novellas from 1942 to 1950, and subsequently in three collections, for nearly thirty years the series was a trilogy: Foundation (1951); Foundation and Empire (1952); and Second Foundation (1953).
Vasilia Fastolfe (also known as Vasilia Aliena) is a character from Isaac Asimov's Robot series. She is short and looks similar to Gladia Solaria . The daughter of the famous roboticist Han Fastolfe , she is a great roboticist in her own right, famous for manipulating R. Giskard Reventlov, the robot assigned to her by her father, unwittingly ...
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]
Salvor Hardin is a fictional character in the Foundation series by Isaac Asimov. Introduced in the 1942 short story "Foundation", he is the first mayor of Terminus, the home planet of the Foundation. He defuses a potential political crisis with four nearby barbarian planets, while also securing their dependence on the Foundation.
The sentient, "humaniform" robot R. Daneel Olivaw is a main character in Asimov's Robot series, initially paired with human detective Elijah Baley to solve unusual murders. Olivaw is introduced in The Caves of Steel , a serialized story published in Galaxy Science Fiction from October to December 1953, and published in hardcover by Doubleday in ...
"Sixty Million Trillion Combinations" is a short mystery story by American writer Isaac Asimov.It was first published in the May 5, 1980, issue of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine under the title "64 Million Trillion Combinations," and reprinted in Banquets of the Black Widowers (1984) and The Return of the Black Widowers (2003).
"No Refuge Could Save" is a short story by Isaac Asimov. It is the second of Asimov's Union Club mystery stories, and the first to be anthologised in The Union Club Mysteries . Overall these mysteries are not rated highly, but this is considered to be one of the best in the series. [ 1 ]
Lisa Simpson asks him if Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics prevented him, to which Bender replies that he killed Isaac Asimov or "Isaac somebody." In the 2014 movie Automata, the drought-fighting pilgrim robots have a two-part variation of Asimov's Laws: Automata: 2 protocols: A Robot cannot harm any form of life. A robot cannot alter itself or ...