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Asimov's Guide to the Bible: The Old and New Testaments

It's Been a Good Life

Isaac Asimov: The Complete Stories, Vol. 1

Isaac Asimov's Guide to Earth and Space

I, Robot: The Illustrated Screenplay

Asimovs Science Fiction

I.Asimov: A Memoir

The Roving Mind


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From Wikipedia
Dr. Isaac Asimov (c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992), was a Russian-born American author and professor of biochemistry, a highly successful and exceptionally prolific writer best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books.
Asimov wrote or edited more than five hundred books and an estimated nine thousand letters and postcards, and has works in every major category of the Dewey Decimal System except 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. He penned numerous short stories, among them "Nightfall", which was voted by the Science Fiction Writers of America the best of its kind up to 1964. He also wrote mysteries and fantasy, as well as a great amount of non-fiction. Asimov wrote the Lucky Starr series of juvenile science-fiction novels using the pen name Paul French..(more)


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Interviews with
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Isaac Asimov on
Science and the Bible

by Paul Kurtz

Dr Isaac Asimov Talks With Slawek Wojtowicz


Books by Isaac Asimov


The Rest of the Robots

Robot Visions

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I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say one was an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow, it was better to say one was a humanist or an agnostic. I finally decided that I'm a creature of emotion as well as of reason. Emotionally, I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.


Articles on Isaac Asimov

The Religious Affiliation of Leading Science Fiction Author

The History of the Positronic Robot and Foundation Stories
by Johnny Pez

Isaac Asimov: Man of 7,560,000 Words
by Lewis Nichols

Asimov is Celebrating 300th Book's Publication
by Edwin McDowell

Isaac AsimovHow I, Robot gets the science-fiction grandmaster wrong.
by Chris Suellentrop

Isaac Asimov: a one-man renaissance - tribute to the late science-fiction author
by Bette Chambers


Writings by Isaac Asimov

The Reagan Doctrine

The "Threat" of Creationism
Scientists thought it was settled. The universe, they had decided, is about 20 billion years old, and Earth itself is 4.5 billion years old. Simple forms of life came into being more than three billion years ago, having formed spontaneously from nonliving matter. They grew more complex through slow evolutionary processes and the first hominid ancestors of humanity appeared more than four million years ago. Homo sapians itself—the present human species, people like you and me—has walked the earth for at least 50,000 years.
But apparently it isn't settled. There are Americans who believe that the earth is only about 6,000 years old; that human beings and all other species were brought into existence by a divine Creator as eternally separate variations of beings; and that there has been no evolutionary process.


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