Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov

Dictionary Quotes (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago

“I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.” Isaac Asimov quotes

Built to Spill: Friday, Nov. 20th

Line Out (Free subscription) | yesterday

The drunks were out for night two at Showbox-Market but it didn’t take away from the solidity of the music. Built to Spill always seem on. Composed and on. A better vantage point was up by the rear bar, away from the frolicking frat-townish weedly boister-partiers. The band was tight and clean in their presentment of the songs. Tempo changes hit on a dime. Doug Martsch hung from the mobile of...

Ten Things Mobile Phones Will Make Obsolete

Click World News (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009

An anonymous reader writes "recombu.com has an article examining ten things mobile phones will make obsolete, including phone booths, wristwatches and handheld games consoles. It's interesting to see how many devices have been absorbed into mobile phone technology and it begs the question, are we better off having everything in one device? The author poignantly concludes that while it's great...

• Ten Things Mobile Phones Will Make Obsolete - Computer Nerds Blog

It's Not Science Fiction, Isaac, it's Socionomics | Elliott Wave …

Planet-x.com.au (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

In the 1940s, renowned science fiction writer Isaac Asimov began writing a trilogy of novels called the Foundation Series. Asimov's protagonist discovers and develops “psychohistory,” a mathematical science that statistically predicts ...

Isaac Asimov: The Three Laws of Robotics

MilkandCookies.com (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009

Dr Asimov describes the three laws of robotics. First Law: A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. Second Law: A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. Third Law: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second...

The Clone Song

Beam Me Up - Science & Science Fiction news (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009

Have you ever see this? Its the Clone Song rumor has it that it was written by the good doctor himself. Found a copy....Wonder if John could voice this? lolThe Clone Song By: Isaac Asimov Tune: Home On The Range Oh, give me a clone Of my own flesh and bone With its Y chromosome changed to X. And after it's grown, Then my own little clone Will be of the opposite sex. Clone, clone of my own,

An Edge In His Voice Harlan Ellison...

The Eternal Golden Braid (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009

An Edge In His Voice Harlan Ellison; An Edge In My Voice (E-Reads Ltd.; 2008; cover by Leo and Diane Dillon). I wasn't expecting much out of this collection of Ellison's essays that originally appeared in the late Future Life magazine (sister, more serious sister when it started out, to Starlog ) before moving into other venues. After all, I figured that they probably had aged and I would be scratching...

The Waters of Mars

'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?' (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009

As I’ve mentioned in responding to comments on my post on Saturday, I share the view that the links between crime fiction and science fiction are very strong. A long list of the fine writers who have worked in both genres includes Isaac Asimov, John Sladek, Fredric Brown, and John Wyndham (though Wyndham seems to have given up on detective fiction once the Golden Age had passed.) I was reminded...

Was the Trojan War Faught with Atom Bombs?

Oil Is Mastery (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009

According to Poseidonius, one of the most careful and accurate observers and scholars in world history, the discovery of the atom predates Leucippus and Democritus and goes back to even before Trojan times. "The Sidonians, according to tradition, are skilled in many beautiful arts, as the poet [Homer] also points out; and besides this they are philosophers in the sciences of astronomy and arithmetic,...

NEWS | New I, Robot Universe Trilogy

Mad Hatter's Bookshelf & Book Review (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009

This is a little late, but the news have been chafing me a bit. In a surprising move Isaac Asimov's estate has authorized a trilogy of new I, Robot Universe books. This is shocking because Asimov had plenty of time to add to that Universe if he so desired considering the last book in the series was written about a decade before he passed away and he was prolific till the end. Suffice it to say if he...

A story emerges

fairyhedgehog (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009

My story is emerging as a Diana Wynne-Jones/Isaac Asimov fan fiction mishmash. I'm amazed I haven't been approached by a major publisher yet but maybe I need to add a few ninjas first.

Reviews of Old Science Fiction Magazines: Analog 1985/12

Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009

Some good stuff in this issue, such as an awesome color ad for the Infocom Hitchhiker's Guide game (not pictured because Sumana has the camera) and a two-page spread for Telarium's game adaptations of SF classics . I got sidetracked talking about the ads, but there are a couple good stories here as well. The best one is "The White Box" by Rom Chilson and Lynette Meserole, which, like Qubit...

Philosophy in Science Fiction

Locusts & Honey (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009

Kenny Pearce is developing a bibliography of works of science fiction that are particularly noteworthy for expressing a philosophical worldview or premise. He presents several categories, such as Mind, Solipsism, and Sex and Gender. Some of the stories that he lists are available online, like Isaac Asimov's " The Last Question " -- a confrontation with entropy. Kenny asks readers for suggestions....

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• Philosophy in Science Fiction - Neatorama

Google uncovers Asimov's switch to the TRS-80

SCI FI Wire (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009

Pity the poor print magazine. So many have been killed off lately that there's even a death pool site devoted to which will die next. But at least yesterday's magazines—which include a ton of sci-fi pop culture—will live forever, thanks to Google's new digitized newsstand . And one of the coolest things we uncovered thanks to the company's latest project of scanning entire magazine back...

I, Robot. You, Jane.

Mile Zero (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009

It's been probably ten or fifteen years since I last read Isaac Asimov's I, Robot. That's often a recipe for disaster: the book that you enjoy as a kid may be filled with all kinds of glaring faults and dated prejudices when viewed through adult eyes. Asimov's stories hold up better than I expected, although according to his timeline we're a few years overdue for household robots, and I for one feel...