Isaac Asimov was a Russian-born, American author, a professor of biochemistry, and a highly successful writer, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. Professor Asimov is generally considered one of the most prolific writers of all time, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards. He has works published in nine of the ten major categories of the Dewey Decimal System (lacking only an entry in the 100s category of Philosophy). Asimov is widely considered a master of the science-fiction genre and, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke, was considered one of the "Big Three" science-fiction writers during his lifetime. Asimov's most famous work is the Foundation Series; his other major series are the Galactic Empire series and the Robot series, both of which he later tied into the same fictional universe as the Foundation Series to create a unified "future history" for his stories much like those pioneered by Robert A. Heinlein and previously produced by Cordwainer Smith and Poul Anderson. He penned numerous short stories, among them "Nightfall", which in 1964 was voted by the Science Fiction Writers of America the best short science fiction story of all time, a title many still honor. He also wrote mysteries and fantasy, as well as a great amount of nonfiction. Asimov wrote the Lucky Starr series of juvenile science-fiction novels using the pen name Paul French. Most of Asimov's popularized science books explain scientific concepts in a historical way, going as far back as possible to a time when the science in question was at its simplest stage. He often provides nationalities, birth dates, and death dates for the scientists he mentions, as well as etymologies and pronunciation guides for technical terms. Examples include his Guide to Science, the three volume set Understanding Physics, and Asimov's Chronology of Science and Discovery. Asimov was a long-time member and Vice President of Mensa International, albeit reluctantly; he described some members of that organization as "brain-proud and aggressive about their IQs" He took more joy in being president of the American Humanist Association. The asteroid 5020 Asimov, the magazine Asimov's Science Fiction, a Brooklyn, NY elementary school, and two different Isaac Asimov Awards are named in his honor.
Series
Books
The Secret of the Universe
1992
Foundation and Earth
1986
Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids
1953
Is Anyone There?
1956
Nine Tomorrows
1959
The Story of Ruth.
1972
Young Mutants
1984
Earth
1988
How Did We Find Out About Blood?
1986
The Naked Sun
1958
How Did We Find Out the Earth is Round?
1972
The Double Planet
1960
Earth Is Room Enough
1957
The Shaping of England
1969
Breeds There a Man?
1951
Catch That Rabbit
1944
Counting the Eons
1983
OUR MILKY WAY AND OTHER GALAXIES
1988
How Did We Find Out about Genes?
1983
Victory Unintentional
1942
Green Patches
1950
Mercury, the quick planet
1989
The Roving Mind
1983
Foundation
The greatest science fiction series of all time, now a major series from Apple TV+: Book 1
2021
Legal Rites
1950
X Stands for Unknown
1983
The World of Nitrogen
1958
Of Numbers and Their History
1973
Momentos estelares de la ciencia
1959
Reason
1941
UFOs
1988
Foundation's Edge
1982
La Luna
2002
Saturn and Beyond
1979
Sherlock Holmes Through Time and Space
1984
Opus
A Selection from the First 200 Books
1980
Through A Glass, Clearly
1967
Beginnings
The Story of Origins
1987
Lenny
1958
The Martian Way and Other Stories
1955
Astronomy Today
1989
Friends, Robots, Countrymen
1989
How did we find out about electricity?
1973
Asimov's Guide to the Bible
The Old Testament
1967
Asimov's Mysteries
1968
Darwinian Pool Room
2023
The Collapsing Universe
1977
The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction
2010
What is This Thing Called Love?
1969
Gold
The Final Science Fiction Collection
1995
Eyes on the Universe
1975
Mirror Image
1972
Young Witches and Warlocks
1987
Gimmicks Three
1956
The Tragedy of the Moon by Isaac Asimov
1973
Asimov on Physics
1976
Norby and Yobo's Great Adventure
1989
Exile to hell
2023
The Ugly Little Boy
1991
15 Short Stories
2016
Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories 17
1955
1988
Ancient Astronomy
1988
Speculations
1982
The Roman Empire
1967
The Exploding Suns
The Secrets of the Supernovas
1977
Extraterrestrials
1986
The Last Question
1956
Understanding Physics
Volume 1: Motion, Sound, and Heat
1966
Extraterrestrial Civilizations
1979
Quick and Easy Math
1964
Murder At The ABA
1976
The Human Brain
Its Capacities and Functions
1963
Asimov's Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan
1988
Quasar, Quasar, Burning Bright
1978
Asimov's Guide to the Bible
The Old and New Testaments
1968
Our Angry Earth
1991
Tales of Science Fiction
Featuring X-Minus One
2003
The Evitable Conflict
1950
Uranus
1988
Misbegotten Missionary
2016
Is There Life on Other Planets?
1989
Other Worlds of Isaac Asimov
1987
The 7 Cardinal Virtues of Science Fiction
1981
Tales of the Black Widowers
1974
The Genetic Code
1962
Cher Jupiter
1977
Neptune
1984
Today and Tomorrow And…
1973
The Rest of the Robots
1964
Asimov on Science Fiction
1981
C-Chute
1951
Silly Asses
2023
Isaac Asimov's the Rocky Planets
1994
Living Space
2012
How Did We Find Out About Germs?
1973
Robots and Empire
1985
How did we find out about atoms?
1976
Forward the Foundation
1993
Realm of Algebra
1961
The Clock We Live On
1965
Facts and Trivia
1994
Words on the Map
1962
How Did We Find Out About the Speed of Light
1986
Triangle
The Currents of Space, Pebble in the Sky, The Stars Like Dust
2019
Life and Time
1978
How Did We Find Out About Our Human Root?
1979
Foundation, the Psychohistorians
1983
Robbie
1940
Mutants
1982
The Mammoth Book of Golden Age
Ten Classic Stories from the Birth of Modern Science Fiction Writing
1984
Comets and Meteors
1973
Life and Energy
1976
Limericks
Too Gross
1978
The Drabble Project
1988
How Did We Find Out About Comets
1975
Feminine Intuition
1969
Dreaming Is a Private Thing
1955
I'm in Marsport Without Hilda
1957
The Life and Times of Multivac
1975
TV:2000
1982
Point of View
1975
The Sun Shines Bright
1981
Asimov's Guide to the Bible
1969
The Currents of Space
1952
Asimov on Numbers
1978
Franchise
1955
The Future I
1981
Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories 21
1959
1990
Risk
1955
Die exakten Geheimnisse unserer Welt
Bausteine des Lebens
1986
Lucky Starr and the Big Sun of Mercury
1956
Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare, Vols. 1-2
1970
How Did We Find Out about Energy?
1975
Venus
1981
Fact and Fancy
1958
The Feeling of Power
1958
Limericks
1978
Half-Breeds on Venus
1940
Asimov's Guide to Science
1972
Light Verse
1973
Dangers of Intelligence and Other Science Essays
1986
Robot Visions
1990
Jupiter, the spotted giant
1989
Jokester
1956
Satisfaction Guaranteed
1951
The Chemicals of Life
1954
The Shaping of North America from Earliest Times to 1763
1969
Asimov teljes Alapítvány-Birodalom-Robot univerzuma 1.
2002
Pluto
1989
Flies
1953
Segregationist
1967
Isaac Asimov's History of I-Botics
An Illustrated Novel
1997
Sucker Bait/Un-Man/to the Storming Gulf
1988
Asimov's Chronology of Science and Discovery
1989
A Treasury of American Horror Stories
1988
Someday
1956
Fantastic Voyage
1966
The Search for the Elements
1962
Los Enviados Del Cielo/the Heavenly Host
1975
Sally
1953
The Dead Past
1956
Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus
1954
Writing Science Fiction & Fantasy
1991
Liar!
1941
Our World in Space
1974
The Best Crime Stories Of The 19th Century
1988
The Neutrino
1969
About Black Holes
1978
Understanding Physics
1966
Isaac Asimov Himself Reads 5 Complete Stories
1994
All the Troubles of the World
1958
Asimov on Science
A 30-Year Retrospective
1989
In the Beginning
Science Faces God in the Book of Genesis
1981
Left to Right
1987
How Did We Find Out About the Universe?
1983
The Immortal Science-Fiction Classics…Isaac Asimov's Robot Series
1990
The Near East
1968
Young Extraterrestrials
1984
World of Carbon
1958
Did Comets Kill the Dinosaurs?
1987
The Human Body
Its Structure and Operation
1963
How Did We Find Out About Numbers?
1973
Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories 24
1992
Norby and the Lost Princess
1985
The Secret Sense
1941
The Seven Deadly Sins and Cardinal Virtues of Science Fiction
1988
The stars in their courses
1971
Our Federal Union
1975
The Subatomic Monster
1981
Adding a Dimension
1964
The Intelligent Man's Guide to the Biological Sciences
1964
The Egyptians
1967
The Weapon Too Dreadful to Use
1939
The Dying Night
1956
Mythology and the Universe
1989
Nemesis
1989
The Gentle Vultures
1957
The Relativity of Wrong
1988
Night Fall and Other Stories
1969
The Birth and Death of Stars
1989
