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- Paperback / softback | 240 pages
- 12.9 × 1.5 × 19.8 cm | 170
- 22 September 2016
- HarperCollins Publishers
- United Kingdom
€13.99
The first volume in Issac Asimov’s world-famous saga, winner of the Hugo Award for Best All-Time Novel Series.
ISBN: 9780008117498
Book Format: Paperback / softback
Pages: 240
Dimensions: 12.9 × 1.5 × 19.8 cm
Isaac Asimov was born in 1920 in Russia and was brought to the USA by his parents three years later. He grew up in Brooklyn and attended Columbia University. After a short spell in the army, he gained a doctorate and worked in academia and chemical research. Asimov's career as a science fiction writer began in 1939 with the short story 'Marooned Off Vesta'. Thereafter he became a regul ar contributor to the leading SF magazines of the day. Asimov wrote hundreds of short stories and novels, including the iconic I, Robot and Foundation. He won the Hugo Award four times and the Nebula Award once. Apart from his world-famous science fiction, Asimov also wrote highly successful detective mystery stories, a four-volume History of North America, a two-volume Guide to the Bible, a biographical dictionary, encyclopaedias, and textbooks, as well as two volumes of autobiography. Asimov died in 1992 at the age of 72.
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