
A study of Isaac Asimov's life, how it was shaped by science fiction, and how it shaped science fiction.

Updates and expands science fiction scholar James Gunn's definitive, Hugo Award-winning critical volume about Isaac Asimov and his contributions to the science fiction genre.

Although he wrote hundreds of non-fiction works about science, mathematics, history, the Bible and literature, Isaac Asimov is best known as a science-fiction writer. In this text, James Gunn analyses his bestsellers and his contribution to the genre.

A study of Isaac Asimov's life, how it was shaped by science fiction, and how it shaped science fiction.