Isaac Asimov
...us science fiction writer, Robert A. Heinlein (www.kirjasto.sci.fi). Isaac Asimov was able to read before he entered the first grade (www.kirjasto.sci.fi). His first influence into the world of science fiction started at his father’s candy store, where he read numerous volumes of science fiction for sale on the newsstand (www.biography.com). Asimov’s likings to science fiction received much criticism and no support from his father. His father believed that the people who read science fiction were bums and ’”the dregs of society, apprentice gangsters’” (www.biography.com). At the early age of eleven, Isaac Asimov began to test his writing abilities (www.biography.com). In 1934, he published his first story, “Little Brother” in a school newspaper (www.biography.com). At the age of seventeen, Asimov attempted his first science fiction story “Cosmic Corkscrew” (www.biography.com). Asimov states about his formulation of a plot, “’I usually thought of some scientific gimmick and built a story about that’” (www.biography.com). He continued on to become one of science fictions most talented authors. Isaac Asimov’s most popular works included NIGHTFALL (1941), FOUNDATION (1951), FOUNDATION AND EMPIRE (1952), SECOND FOUNDATION (1953), THE CAVES OF STEEL (1954), THE END OF ETERNITY (1955), THE NAKED SUN (1957), and THE GODS THEMSELVES (1972), which won both the Hugo and the Nebula awards (www.kirjasto.sci.fi). Asimov had a unique style of writing and possessed a great talent. “His many books on atomic theory, chemistry, astronomy, and physics have been recognized for their extraordinary clarity, and Asimov has been praised for his ability to synthesize complex data into readable, unthreatening prose” (www.biography.com). During the 1960s and 1980s, Asimov didn’t publish any s...