Isaac Asimov
1) Youth
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Youth is a science fiction novelette by Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in the May 1952 issue of Space Science Fiction and was reprinted in the 1955 collection The Martian Way and Other Stories. Youth is one of the rare Asimov stories with alien characters. Slim is a boy whose astronomer father is visiting the country estate of an important industrialist. The industrialist's son, Red, has found two strange animals, and he enlists Slim in a plan to...
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Robot series volume 1
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2011
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Following the iconic I, Robot, the next adventure in the Robot series finds detective Elijah Baley swept into one of the most emotionally charged and dangerous situations in Earth’s history when he’s tasked with solving the murder of an illustrious robot scientist.
“With his fertile imagination, his wit, and his prolific output, Isaac Asimov truly laid the foundation for all future generations of science fiction...
“With his fertile imagination, his wit, and his prolific output, Isaac Asimov truly laid the foundation for all future generations of science fiction...
5) The Pause
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The Pause by Isaac Asimov
The white powder was confined within a thin-walled, transparent capsule. The capsule in turn was heat-sealed into a double strip of parafilm. Along that strip of parafilm were other capsules at six-inch intervals.
The strip moved. Each capsule in the course of events rested for one minute on a metal jaw immediately beneath a mica window. On another portion of the face of the radiation counter a number clicked out upon an...
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Isaac Asimov es considerado por muchos como el mejor escritor de ciencia ficción del siglo XX y nos dejó más de 500 publicaciones, tanto de ficción como técnicas, muchas de las cuales son geniales y creativos cuentos. Este libro electrónico, al igual que en los otros volúmenes de la "Colección Mejores Cuentos", es una cuidadosa selección de los mejores cuentos de Isaac Asimov, lo que lo convierte definitivamente en una lectura imperdible,...
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MDP Publishing has compiled a collection of 6 Novels, novelettes, novellas and short stories from prolific Science Fiction icon Isaac Asimov. These stories were originally published by Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine in the early 1950's. Stories include the 3 part full length novel Tyrann, as well as Hostess, The C-Chute, Darwinian Pool Room, The Martian Way and The Deep. With over 350+ electronic pages and all of the originally artwork from each...
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Excerpt: "There is nothing new under the sun, says the Bible. Nor is the sun itself new, we might add. As long as life has existed on earth, it has been exposed to radiation from the Sun, SO that life and radiation are Old acquaintances and have learned to live together. We are accustomed to looking upon sunlight as something good, useful, and desirable, and certainly we could not live long without it. The energy of sunlight warms the earth, produces...
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Isaac Asimov's Breakthroughs in Science is a captivating exploration of the pivotal discoveries and advancements that have shaped the course of human history. Renowned for his clarity and engaging style, Asimov delves into the milestones of scientific progress, providing readers with an insightful narrative that is as informative as it is fascinating.
From the invention of the wheel to the mysteries of quantum mechanics, the book chronicles the ingenuity,...
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Isaac Asimov was an American writer, considered one of the most important science fiction writers of the 20th century. Asimov was born in Petrovichi, Russia, on January 2, 1920. At the age of three, he moved with his family to the United States, where he was raised in the Brooklyn neighborhood of New York. In 1950, Isaac Asimov published the book "I, Robot," which became a science fiction classic. In a series of nine stories, the author narrates the...
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The Story of Nuclear Energy: Worlds Within Worlds covers the entire story of nuclear energy from a basic explanation of atomic weights, energy and electricity to nuclear fission, fusion - beyond. First coming to public consciousness as The Bomb that ended World War II, it is now the forefront of our attention as a source of peacetime energy, whether from nuclear power plants or from the sun.
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MDP Publishing has compiled a second collection of Novels, novelettes, novellas and short stories from prolific Science Fiction icon Isaac Asimov. These stories were originally published by Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine in the late 1950's. Stories include the 3-part full-length novel Caves of Steel, as well as Lastborn, Galley Slave and Ideas Die Hard. With over 250+ electronic pages and all of the originally artwork from each issue of Galaxy,...
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Gold is the final and crowning achievement of the fifty-year career of science fiction's transcendent genius, the world-famous author who defined the field of science fiction for its practitioners, its millions of readers, and the world at large.
The first section contains stories that range from the humorous to the profound, at the heart of which is the title story, "Gold," a moving and revealing drama about a writer who gambles everything on a...
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Amazing Stories Volume 127 is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are four short stories by different authors: "Let's get Together" by Isaac Asimov, "Sequel" by Ben Smith, "Hunt the Hog" by Robert E. Gilbert, and "Phantom Duel" by Ford McCormack.
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A must-read for any science fiction fan, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume Two (published in two volumes, A & B) is a compilation of twenty-two of the best novellas published between 1895 and 1962. The two volumes were originally published in 1973 (Two-A) and 1974 (Two-B) after the stories were selected by a vote of the membership of the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA, now known as the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America).
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A Space Academy student and his time-travelling robot stop an evil villain from taking over the Solar System in this children's sci-fi classic.
Fourteen-year-old Jeff Wells, a cadet at the Space Academy on Mars, is in danger of being kicked out unless he can improve his grades. With a little help from the academy's commandant, Jeff finds a robot named Norby to help him study. But Norby's no ordinary robot. He has the only mini-anti-gravity device...
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In the sixth volume of the complete children's sci-fi series, Jeff and Norby reunite with an adventurous princess and uncover the mystery of Norby's maker.
Norby Finds a Villain
Jeff and his mixed-up robot, Norby, are joined by red-headed Rinda, Crown Princess of the planet Izz, and Rinda's small robot, Pera. Their time-travelling adventures take them from the Pleistocene period to five hundred years into a false future. Along the way, they must...
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This fourth volume of the complete children's sci-fi series includes a mission to foil evildoing aliens and a quick trip to eighteenth-century France.
Norby and the Invaders
Jeff Wells and his robot, Norby, must rescue the Grand Dragon of Jamya from strange, blimplike aliens known as the Hleno. Determined to protect the environment from the overuse of technology, the Hleno take Norby and Jeff prisoner, too. Encased in an impenetrable plastic bubble,...
19) Our Angry Earth
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"A lucid overview of [environmental] problems and a compelling call to action." -Publishers Weekly
From two of science fiction's most celebrated and brilliant minds-Isaac Asimov and Frederik Pohl-comes the second edition of Our Angry Earth, a comprehensive analysis of today's environmental threats and a guide on how we can heal our planet, with an introduction and afterword from New York Times bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson.
Our Angry Earth...
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This tenth volume of the complete children's sci-fi series features a time-travelling space odyssey and a spring break vacation gone terribly wrong.
Norby and the Court Jester
On spring break from the Space Academy, Jeff Wells and his robot, Norby, head to the planet Izz for a toy and game fair. They look forward to seeing Princess Rinda and her little robot, Pera. But when Norby receives a telepathic message from Pera-part of which is "help!"-Norby...