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Opus 100
''Opus 100'' is a collection by American writer and scientist Isaac Asimov. It was published by Houghton Mifflin on 16 October 1969. Asimov chose to celebrate the publication of his hundredth book by writing about his previous 99 books, including excerpts from short stories and novels, as well as nonfiction articles and books. ''Opus 100'' also includes five complete science fiction stories and one complete science essay. Contents Introduction Part 1. Astronomy *Excerpt from "The Callistan Menace" *Excerpt from ''Lucky Starr and the Moons of Jupiter'' *Excerpt from "View from Amalthea" from ''The Solar System and Back'' *Excerpt from ''Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus'' *Excerpt from "The Martian Way" *Excerpt from ''The Universe'' *Excerpt from ''Galaxies'' Part 2. Robots *Excerpt from "The Perfect Machine" from ''Today and Tomorrow and ...'' *Excerpt from " Strange Playfellow" (usually titled "Robbie") *Excerpt from " Liar!" *Excerpt from " Runaround" *Excerpt from "I, Rob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isaac Asimov
yi, יצחק אזימאװ , birth_date = , birth_place = Petrovichi, Russian SFSR , spouse = , relatives = , children = 2 , death_date = , death_place = Manhattan, New York City, U.S. , nationality = Russian (1920–1922)Soviet (1922–1928)American (1928–1992) , occupation = Writer, professor of biochemistry , years_active = 1939–1992 , genre = Science fiction (hard SF, social SF), mystery, popular science , subject = Popular science, science textbooks, essays, history, literary criticism , education = Columbia University ( BA, MA, PhD) , movement = Golden Age of Science Fiction , module = , signature = Isaac Asimov signature.svg Isaac Asimov ( ; 1920 – April 6, 1992) 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Super-Neutron
"Super-Neutron" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov, originally published in the September 1941 issue of ''Astonishing Stories'', and included in the 1972 collection ''The Early Asimov''. Asimov originally intended the story to be the first in a series, but was unable to come up with any further story ideas. Plot summary In the year 2144, a group of four friends who call themselves the Honorable Society of Ananias meet for lunch once a month, during which one of the members tells a story. The story must be a complex and fantastic lie, but one which sounds like the truth. The other three members are free to heckle and attack the supposed veracity of the tale. At the seventeenth meeting, Gilbert Hayes, a guest, requests that he be allowed to tell a story. His tale is that, fifteen years before, as an astronomer, he discovered that a planet with no gravitational field had entered the Solar System from the region of the south celestial pole and remained u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Books By Isaac Asimov
A book is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or images, typically composed of many page (paper), pages (made of papyrus, parchment, vellum, or paper) bookbinding, bound together and protected by a book cover, cover. The technical term for this physical arrangement is ''codex'' (plural, ''codices''). In the history of hand-held physical supports for extended written compositions or records, the codex replaces its predecessor, the scroll. A single sheet in a codex is a Recto, leaf and each side of a leaf is a page (paper), page. As an intellectual object, a book is prototypically a composition of such great length that it takes a considerable investment of time to compose and still considered as an investment of time to read. In a restricted sense, a book is a self-sufficient section or part of a longer composition, a usage reflecting that, in antiquity, long works had to be written on several scrolls and each scroll had to be identified by the book it co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Opus 300
''Opus 300'' is a collection by American writer and scientist Isaac Asimov. It was published by Houghton Mifflin in the United States in 1984, and by Robert Hale Ltd in the United Kingdom in 1985. Asimov chose to celebrate the publication of his three hundredth book by writing about his previous 99 books, including excerpts from short stories and novels, as well as nonfiction articles and books. ''Opus 300'' also includes nine complete stories, several complete science essays, and one complete essay never before published, "The Forever Generation," which is not available anywhere else. Contents *Introduction * Part 1. Astronomy ** "The Moon" (chapter 2 of ''Extraterrestrial Civilizations'' (1979)) ** Excerpts from '' Visions of the Universe'' (1981) *** Mercury *** Volcanoes on Venus ** "Icarus" (excerpt from ''Venus, Near Neighbour of the Sun'' (1981)) ** Excerpt from ''The Science Fictional Solar System'' (1979) (about Pluto) ** Excerpt from ''Foundation's Edge'' (1982) * Part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Opus 200
''Opus 200'' is Isaac Asimov's joint two-hundredth book, along with his autobiography ''In Memory Yet Green'' (both books were published on the same day, following his 199th book). It was published by Houghton Mifflin in March 1979. Asimov chose to celebrate the publication of his two hundredth book by writing about his previous 198 books, including excerpts from short stories and novels, as well as nonfiction articles and books. ''Opus 200'' also includes three complete science fiction stories, two complete mystery stories and two complete essays. Contents *Introduction *Excerpt from ''The Gods Themselves'' *Excerpt from ''ABCs of Space'' *Excerpt from ''How Did We Find Out About Comets?'' *Excerpt from ''Comets and Meteors'' *Excerpt from ''Alpha Centauri, the Nearest Star'' *Excerpt from ''The Collapsing Universe'' *"The Bicentennial Man" *Excerpt from ''How Did We Find Out About Numbers?'' *Excerpt from "Skewered!" *Excerpt from ''Light'' *Excerpt from ''Please Explain'' *Excer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galaxy Science Fiction
''Galaxy Science Fiction'' was an American digest-size science fiction magazine, published in Boston from 1950 to 1980. It was founded by a French-Italian company, World Editions, which was looking to break into the American market. World Editions hired as editor H. L. Gold, who rapidly made ''Galaxy'' the leading science fiction magazine of its time, focusing on stories about social issues rather than technology. Gold published many notable stories during his tenure, including Ray Bradbury's "The Fireman", later expanded as ''Fahrenheit 451''; Robert A. Heinlein's ''The Puppet Masters''; and Alfred Bester's ''The Demolished Man''. In 1952, the magazine was acquired by Robert Guinn, its printer. By the late 1950s, Frederik Pohl was helping Gold with most aspects of the magazine's production. When Gold's health worsened, Pohl took over as editor, starting officially at the end of 1961, though he had been doing the majority of the production work for some time. Under Pohl ''Gala ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Algis Budrys
Algirdas Jonas "Algis" Budrys (January 9, 1931 – June 9, 2008) was a Lithuanian-American science fiction author, editor, and critic. He was also known under the pen names Frank Mason, Alger Rome (in collaboration with Jerome Bixby), John A. Sentry, William Scarff, and Paul Janvier. He is known for the influential 1960 novel ''Rogue Moon''. Biography Budrys was born in Königsberg (today's Kaliningrad) in the then East Prussia, Germany. His father Jonas Budrys was the consul general of Lithuania; as a child he saw Adolf Hitler in a parade in the city. In 1936, when Budrys was five years old, Jonas was appointed as the consul general in New York, instead of Paris as he had hoped. After the Soviet Union's occupation of Lithuania, the Budrys family ran a chicken farm in New Jersey while Jonas remained part of the exile Lithuanian Diplomatic Service, since the United States continued to recognize the pre-World War II Lithuanian diplomats. During most of his adult life, Budry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Holmes-Ginsbook Device
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dreamworld (story)
Dreamworld or Dream World may refer to: Amusement parks * Dreamworld (Australia), a theme park on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia * Dream World (Thailand), an amusement park in Thanyaburi District, Pathum Thani Province, Thailand Music * Dreamworld (band), a Swedish group 1995–1997 * "Dreamworld" (Midnight Oil song), 1988 * "Dreamworld" (Robin Thicke song), 2009 * "Dream World", a song by the Monkees from the 1968 album '' The Birds, The Bees & The Monkees'' * "Dream World", a song by ABBA from the 2004 '' Thank You for the Music'' box set * "Dreamworld", a song by Rilo Kiley from the 2007 album '' Under the Blacklight'' Other uses * Dream world (plot device), in fictional works * Dreamworld, a dimension in the Dream Cycle fiction of H. P. Lovecraft * Pokémon Dream World, part of ''Pokémon Black'' and ''White'' video games See also * * * Dream * Dreamland (other) * DreamWorks Pictures, an American film production company * Fictional universe A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dean E
Dean may refer to: People * Dean (given name) * Dean (surname), a surname of Anglo-Saxon English origin * Dean (South Korean singer), a stage name for singer Kwon Hyuk * Dean Delannoit, a Belgian singer most known by the mononym Dean Titles * Dean (Christianity), persons in certain positions of authority within a religious hierarchy * Dean (education), persons in certain positions of authority in some educational establishments * Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, most senior ambassador in a country's diplomatic corps * Dean of the House, the most senior member of a country's legislature Places * Dean, Victoria, Australia * Dean, Nova Scotia, Canada * De'an County, Jiujiang, Jiangxi, China United Kingdom * Lower Dean, Bedfordshire, England * Upper Dean, Bedfordshire, England * Dean, Cumbria, England * Dean, Oxfordshire, England * Dean, a hamlet in Cranmore, Somerset, England * Dean Village, Midlothian, Scotland * Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England * Dene (valley) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foundation And Empire
''Foundation and Empire'' is a science fiction novel by American writer Isaac Asimov originally published by Gnome Press in 1952. It is the second book in the ''Foundation'' Series, and the fourth in the in-universe chronology. It takes place in two parts, originally published as separate novellas. The second part, "The Mule," won a Retro Hugo Award in 1996. ''Foundation and Empire'' saw multiple publications—it also appeared in 1955 as Ace Double (but not actually paired with another book) D-125 under the title ''The Man Who Upset the Universe''. The stories comprising this volume were originally published in ''Astounding Magazine'' (with different titles) in 1945. ''Foundation and Empire'' was the second book in the Foundation trilogy. Decades later, Asimov wrote two further sequel novels and two prequels. Later writers have added authorized, and unauthorized, tales to the series. Plot summary The General The first half of the book, titled "The General," focuses on Genera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catechol
Catechol ( or ), also known as pyrocatechol or 1,2-dihydroxybenzene, is a toxic organic compound with the molecular formula . It is the ''ortho'' isomer of the three isomeric benzenediols. This colorless compound occurs naturally in trace amounts. It was first discovered by destructive distillation of the plant extract catechin. About 20,000 tonnes of catechol are now synthetically produced annually as a commodity organic chemical, mainly as a precursor to pesticides, flavors, and fragrances. Catechol occurs as feathery white crystals that are very rapidly soluble in water. Isolation and synthesis Catechol was first isolated in 1839 by Edgar Hugo Emil Reinsch (1809–1884) by distilling it from the solid tannic preparation catechin, which is the residuum of catechu, the boiled or concentrated juice of ''Mimosa catechu'' (''Acacia catechu''). Upon heating catechin above its decomposition point, a substance that Reinsch first named ''Brenz-Katechusäure'' (burned catechu acid) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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