Isaac Asimov 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. A prolific writer, he wrote or edited more than 500 books. He also wrote an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards. Best known for his hard science fiction, Asimov also wrote mysteries and fantasy, as well as much non-fiction.
As the First Galactic Empire crumbles, the Foundation, guided by psychohistory, confronts the unexpected emergence of the Mule, a mutant capable of shattering Seldon's plan for humanity's future.
As the formidable Mule closes in, the galaxy's fate depends on finding the Second Foundation, a quest that throws a sharp 14-year-old girl into a dangerous game of minds and empires.
A secret society of scientists uses psychohistory to guide humanity through a millennium of collapse and rebirth, battling warlords, empires, and psychic mutants to ensure a new, enlightened empire.
In a future where humanity is split between an overcrowded Earth and advanced Spacer colonies, a xenophobic detective must overcome his prejudice to partner with a humanoid robot—who uncannily resembles the murder victim—to solve a crime that threatens to ignite an interstellar war.
In a vast galactic empire nearing collapse, a young mathematician, Hari Seldon, invents a science that predicts the future, making him central to humanity's survival or ruin.
Golan Trevize, driven by a need to confirm his choice for humanity's future, begins a dangerous, galaxy-wide search for Earth, the mythical origin of mankind, whose existence has been erased from memory.
Humanity's addiction to limitless, free energy from a parallel universe puts Earth on a collision course with solar annihilation, forcing an unlikely alliance of outcast scientists and rebellious aliens to convince a skeptical cosmos of the impending doom.
As the Galactic Empire crumbles, Hari Seldon races against time and political plots to secure the future of psychohistory, a science that promises to guide humanity through the coming dark age, starting with the unlikely legacy of his own granddaughter.
On a world of humanoid robots and galactic intrigue, Detective Elijah Baley and his positronic partner, R. Daneel Olivaw, must clear a brilliant roboticist of 'roboticide' to prevent an interstellar war and secure humanity's future among the stars.
A miniaturized submarine crew navigates the perilous, microscopic world of a dying man's brain to destroy a blood clot, holding the fate of the world in their impossibly small hands.
A 1949 tailor, accidentally sent 20,000 years into the future, must navigate a radioactive, ageist Earth in a vast Galactic Empire that despises its origins, all while trying to avoid a mandatory death sentence for being two years too old.
From humanity's first steps into the cosmos to the universe's heat death, a persistent question about reversing entropy drives the evolution of intelligence.
As a dying Galactic Empire crumbles, a lone visionary uses the science of psychohistory to establish a remote outpost of knowledge, hoping to shorten humanity's inevitable dark age amidst rising warlords and the threat of annihilation.
Asimov's collection tracks the intertwined futures of people and machines over forty years of science fiction, from early AI to humanity's future in space.
